Ignorance In Animal Farm

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Propaganda will not be affective if it isn’t for the second major theme, ignorance. Throughout the allegory, the animals lack of knowledge/education is being used by the Pigs. “… ‘No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.’ Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out of the animals' memory…” (61) No matter what the animals believe they remembered or thought they know, the Pigs would make it seem that they where wrong. They play with the animal’s memories, over complicate language or make ideas seem very complex because they know the animals aren’t knowledgeable enough to counter them. “All that year the animals worked like slaves” (40). The animals are working long and hard hours every day, but they aren’t receiving their

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