Ignorance In The Novel 'Animal Farm' By George Orwell

Ignorance, the lack of knowledge or information, has its pros and cons. The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell has the usage of ignorance in a variety of different ways. Ignorance is bliss in an oppressive environment because it keeps all the animals from becoming scared or rebelling against Napoleon and Snowball, and it creates peace among the farm as a whole. One reason why ignorance is bliss in an oppressive environment is so the animals don’t become scared or rebel against Snowball and Napoleon. When you ignore a bad event in the world you usually don’t get affected by it. In chapter 5 it says “At first no one had been able to imagine where these creatures came from.” The fact is these creatures chased Snowball off the farm, but the animals have had signs of Napoleon training the dogs for this but they chose to ignore it. Ths semi helped them as they did not get hurt but Snowball definitely was.Sometimes the messenger is so much the

Animals that are hard working, don’t see the bad things tat are happening around them, yet all they're doing is fueling the fire. In chapter 6 it states “ Boxer would never listen to me. His two slogans, “ I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right,” seemed answers to all problems.” Boxer is not the sharpest tool in the shed, so he misses a few things, but him doing this is keeping him safe and on Napoleon`s good side. Also when certain animals have an opinion on something, mot of them don’t care and they ignore it & carry on with their day. In chapter 6 it states “You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?... The animals reassured him at this point immediately, and no more was said about the pigs sleeping in the farmhouse beds.” So with all the animals believing that nothing is wrong and them not knowing anything on the powerful moves that napoleon is doing it keeps them at peace and causes nothing to go completely wrong just