The Danger Of An Intelligent Working Class
Hannah Dinwiddie
English II
Period 8
17 February 2017
Title: The importance of education and the danger of an intelligent working class
Imagine this, you wake up and find yourself in the 1920’s, when Joseph Stalin was a leader. You try to go back asleep and wake up back in your own time but you are stuck. It is an endless nightmare. George Orwell describes this situation in a more simple way by using animals instead of humans in his novel Animal Farm. In the beginning of the novel Old Major, an old pig, gave a speech about how they were going to overthrow the humans and run the farm without the help of any human. Squealer and Napoleon (the pigs) use their education to rule over the animals and create the 7 commandments that eventually they …show more content…
Clover is an mare who acts like an motherly figure to the animals and is Boxer good friend. The sheep (who have no names) blindly follow Napoleon's every command. The importance of education and the danger of an intelligent working class is demonstrated in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell through the characterization of Boxer, the sheeps and the pigs.
Boxer who symbolizes the working class represents the danger of the uneducated animals through how Napoleon deceives Boxer. This is one of the first times Boxer realizes that it is important to be educated, “‘I do not believe that,’ he said. ‘Snowball fought bravely at the Battle of the Cowshed. I saw him myself. Did we not give him Animal Hero, First Class, immediately afterwards?’ ‘That was our mistake, conrade. For we know now-it is all written down in the secret documents that we have found - that in reality he was trying to lure us to our doom.’ ‘But he was wounded,’ said Boxer. ‘ We all saw him running with blood.’ ‘That was part of the arrangement!’ cried …show more content…
At the end of the novel the pigs are together in a room with a bunch of the neighboring farms, laughing, singing, playing card games and drinking beer. The pigs have become just like the humans. Some of the animals who were watching could not even tell the difference from the pigs and the humans. Both Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington made a big long speech and Napoleon ended up changing the name of the farm from Animal Farm back to Manor Farm.If the animals would have put the time and effort into learning the alphabet then Napoleon would not have gained so much power and they could have stood up to Napoleon when he changed the
English II
Period 8
17 February 2017
Title: The importance of education and the danger of an intelligent working class
Imagine this, you wake up and find yourself in the 1920’s, when Joseph Stalin was a leader. You try to go back asleep and wake up back in your own time but you are stuck. It is an endless nightmare. George Orwell describes this situation in a more simple way by using animals instead of humans in his novel Animal Farm. In the beginning of the novel Old Major, an old pig, gave a speech about how they were going to overthrow the humans and run the farm without the help of any human. Squealer and Napoleon (the pigs) use their education to rule over the animals and create the 7 commandments that eventually they …show more content…
Clover is an mare who acts like an motherly figure to the animals and is Boxer good friend. The sheep (who have no names) blindly follow Napoleon's every command. The importance of education and the danger of an intelligent working class is demonstrated in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell through the characterization of Boxer, the sheeps and the pigs.
Boxer who symbolizes the working class represents the danger of the uneducated animals through how Napoleon deceives Boxer. This is one of the first times Boxer realizes that it is important to be educated, “‘I do not believe that,’ he said. ‘Snowball fought bravely at the Battle of the Cowshed. I saw him myself. Did we not give him Animal Hero, First Class, immediately afterwards?’ ‘That was our mistake, conrade. For we know now-it is all written down in the secret documents that we have found - that in reality he was trying to lure us to our doom.’ ‘But he was wounded,’ said Boxer. ‘ We all saw him running with blood.’ ‘That was part of the arrangement!’ cried …show more content…
At the end of the novel the pigs are together in a room with a bunch of the neighboring farms, laughing, singing, playing card games and drinking beer. The pigs have become just like the humans. Some of the animals who were watching could not even tell the difference from the pigs and the humans. Both Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington made a big long speech and Napoleon ended up changing the name of the farm from Animal Farm back to Manor Farm.If the animals would have put the time and effort into learning the alphabet then Napoleon would not have gained so much power and they could have stood up to Napoleon when he changed the