Manipulation In Animal Farm By George Orwell

In Orwell’s story Animal Farm, he suggests that intellectuals might think that less intelligent people deserve abuse and manipulation. In his story the pigs were smarter than the rest of the animals. The pigs first started off as kind and treated everyone equal, soon they began to realize they could lie and manipulate the other animals. They could manipulate these other animals because they viewed the pigs as smarter and more trustworthy. These other animals were not as intelligent as the pigs and therefore didn’t realize what was happening. The pigs may have justified their actions by claiming that the other animals deserved this treatment.They could have thought that the other animals just didn’t try hard enough to learn to read, or that they weren’t as good as them since they couldn’t. If the animals could have learned to read and write then they could have stopped them from changing the commandments, they could have seen what the pigs were doing little by little. So the pigs looked down at the other animals, for not seeing what was truly going on. The pigs then abused this and took what they could without them
In reality the other people just never had the opportunity to come to power. The person in power may come to think that they are “more equal” than the rest of the people because of their power.The people will have less and less while the one person gets more and more because they think highly of themselves. Sometimes the people will rise up and get rid of the person in control and give another person complete control. Most of the time the new person will fall into the same loop the other one did, that’s why some governments have split up the amount of power get in order to avoid too much corruption. In Animal Farm the humans had complete control over the animals and thought themselves better, then the pigs took control and thought themselves better, making a