Animal farm

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In Animal Farm by George Orwell the theme that is going to be discuss in thi paper is: a free society will be lost if it citizens are not intelligent, educated, and vigilant. Among all the characters described by Orwell in this book, the pigs are the most intelligent, educated, and vigilant. Two characters are going to br compared in this paper, so the ides of a free society with these characters can be clearly seen. These two characters will be Squealer and Clover for beign so different, one to the other.

A free society will be lost if its citizens are not intelligents. In telligence can be also related to skepticism. It is very clear that the society described in Orwell's book needs more individuals besides the pigs with this characteristics. There is, for exmple, Squealer, who is one of the pigs. He is very intelligent. He always has quick answers to Clover's doubts.

When the animals are informed that the pigs are sleeping in beds inside the farmhouse, Clover remembers that it is against to one of the Fourth Commandments. She asks Muriel to read the Commandments to her. It says that"No animal shall sleep in beds with sheets"(p.79). Clover does not trust her memory and believes whatever is written on that wall. Squealer is passing by when Clover and Muriel are reading the Commandments, so without losing a chance he convince them that the pigs are not breaking any rule. He mentions that the pigs are sleeping in beds but they have removed sheets(p.80). He is intelligeny enough to say that there was never a rule against beds, and that the rule was against sheets. If Clover were intelligent she could have trusted her memory and questioned Squealer's words. More over, If the rest of the animals...