Wednesday, May 15, 2013

animal farm doublepost


The book, animal farm, is a extended analogy of the formation and following events of soviet Russia. The author compares the dictator of the farm: Napoleon with the dictator of Russia:Stalin, he also compared the Russian citizen with animals of the farm. We all know that both Russia’s peasants and animals f animal farm are very poorly educated. Would the scenario be different if they are educated? I do believe so. If the animal in animal farm at least learned how to read, they will have realized how they have been abused and how the seven amendments have changed. Due to the fact of the lack of education, they did not realized they have been manipulated and is easily tricked by the pigs. Since only the pigs could read, they have to rely on the pigs to transform the information form paper to words. And since the pigs were corrupt, all they got was misleading information. If the animals were educated, they would have realized, using math and measurements, that  the amount of food they have was actually worse than food from Jone times, this will prevent them from being satisfied with a dysfunctional government and being persuaded by propaganda. The outcome of the story would have been a lot different, and so would soviet Russia, if their general population is educated and realize that they are under brainwash. Although the lack of education might cause napoleon to gain power, the animals’ devoted trust to napoleon also caused napoleons dictatorship. If the animals would stop to consider, and think twice about squealer’s lies, they would have realized that the pigs were just exploiting them. Many animals throught this story mentioned that they remembered the seven commandments differently than what the pigs announced, sometimes more than one animal voiced their concern. If they have been less trusting and more logical, they whoudl have realized that such statement as” no animals should be killed without czuse” is just a very retarded commandment due to the fact that if this is the commandment, anyone can kill anything with a reason, even if the reason si that the murderer is bored. So, education would change the out come of the story greatly, but if they animals would have voiced their concern, things would go differently as well.

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