In Animal Farm, Orwell portrays many of the characters as unselfish, but these animals are not intelligent enough to be leaders. Brains appear to be the monopoly on Animal Farm, as Fergenson write, “Orwell seems to be saying not that people are no good, but that the most vicious and selfish of people often[...] gain control over their moral betters”(115). The exception, as she clearly explains, is Benjamin the donkey, an uninvolved intellectual that “rejecting the principles of animalism because of deep-rooted pessimism that [...] manifested itself in political quietism, refuses to believe that life can be made better”(116). By definition, a fable illustrates a moral, which often attains the power of a proverb. The motto the pigs have written on the side of the barn at the end of Animal Farm illustrates the basic inequality that subverted the revolution, as Fergenson cites from another author. This proverb means that basic inequalities may make the virtues of great kindness, nobility, and sacrifice, insufficient to guarantee
In Animal Farm, Orwell portrays many of the characters as unselfish, but these animals are not intelligent enough to be leaders. Brains appear to be the monopoly on Animal Farm, as Fergenson write, “Orwell seems to be saying not that people are no good, but that the most vicious and selfish of people often[...] gain control over their moral betters”(115). The exception, as she clearly explains, is Benjamin the donkey, an uninvolved intellectual that “rejecting the principles of animalism because of deep-rooted pessimism that [...] manifested itself in political quietism, refuses to believe that life can be made better”(116). By definition, a fable illustrates a moral, which often attains the power of a proverb. The motto the pigs have written on the side of the barn at the end of Animal Farm illustrates the basic inequality that subverted the revolution, as Fergenson cites from another author. This proverb means that basic inequalities may make the virtues of great kindness, nobility, and sacrifice, insufficient to guarantee