Exploited by a Higher Power

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Have you ever felt that your government was lying to you? Hiding things, changing things behind your back, or convincing you they never said things that you distinctly recall them saying? In the book Animal Farm by twentieth century British author George Orwell many of the animals on the farm felt the same way. They also had suspicions about how honest their leaders were, but like most of society when rulers make excuses or explain their reasoning, citizens almost immediately believe or forgive them. Most of society prefers to be treated like a faceless heard, preferring to let someone rule and control them so they don't have to make any big economic choices on their own, but what most people don't consider is that when you grant someone the power to rule a district, were also granting the power to control that districts inhabitants. No matter how wrong it feels in our hearts, society will believe lies and turn its head to injustices if the man in charge has a good enough excuse, it's no secret that mankind allows itself to be easily persuaded and taken advantage of by it’s dignitaries. Soon after the expulsion of Jones commandments and rules were set in motion to give order to Animal Farm, yet the guidelines weren’t followed by all of the animals on the farm. After Jones had been run off the farm the animals decided to explore the farmhouse, upon exploring the house “a unanimous resolution was passed on the spot that the farmhouse should be preserved as a museum. All were agreed that no animal must ever live there”(pg 23). Everyone on the farm agreed that no animal would ever inhabit that house, yet months later no one put up a fuss when the pigs took it upon themselves to obliterate that rule. “It was about this time that the ... ... middle of paper ... ...id brutes, too ignorant to realize what was happening…”(pg 123) once again let themselves be tricked by the pigs. Throughout the book we see tales of manipulation by the pigs to the farm animals, without the animals the pigs would have never risen to power yet they let their power go to their head and lied and mistreated the animals to get what they wanted. The beasts had several chances to revolt against the pigs, yet for some reason they turned their heads to the injustice an ignored their senses of both reason and logic, maybe they feared having to be in charge, maybe they were just too naive to see it, or perhaps they truly believed the lies. Whatever their reasoning we see the same things in human society, and George Orwell does a good job of displaying to us how willing society is to turn its head to injustice and consents to being exploited by a higher power.

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