Ignorance In George Orwell's Animal Farm

In “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, there are many ways that manipulation, power-hoarding, and ignorance relate to the corruption of Animal Farm. The pigs take complete control of the farm and spread corruption and disarray throughout the animals. The pigs have more intelligence than the rest of the animals, so they can take advantage of them, change commandments, and lie straight to their faces. The other animal's ignorance has the most significant impact on Animal Farm because of these reasons.

In Animal Farm, the pigs show lots of different ways of manipulating the other animals. According to the book it says, “Comrades! he cried. You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?”(Orwell 3) This is the pigs telling everyone that they need to have apples and sugar. They are saying that because they are the leaders, and so they think that they deserve the most food even when they are doing almost nothing. “If comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.”(Orwell 5) Napoleon has manipulated Boxer into thinking this, to convince the other animals that anything he says is always true. Because Boxer is the animal that does the most work, he

For example, “But no warm mash appeared, and on the following Sunday, it was announced that from now onwards all barley would be reserved for the pigs”(Orwell 9) The pigs took charge of everyone, and made it so the rest of the farm starved while they had as much food as they wanted. Also, it says, “There was a deadly silence. Amazed, terrified, huddling together, the animals watched the long line of pigs march slowly round the yard.”(Orwell 10) This shows that the pigs have officially seized all power on the farm because now they are acting in every way like spoiled humans. Power-hoarding caused the pigs to have much more independence and complete control over all the decisions made on Animal