Theme. What is it? A theme is a central idea of a story that
usually reveals something about human nature. A theme is usually
unstated as are the themes in George Orwell's Animal Farm. One
theme that can be taken away from the story is weakness can be
easily dominated through language and ignorance. This will be
seen through the manipulative language of Squealer and the
One way in which this can be seen is through Squealer. In
one situation all of the apples and milk will be given to the pigs a
few animals disagree with this. "Comrades!" he cried. "You do not
imagine I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness
and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike
them myself. Our sole object is to preserve our health. Milk and
apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain
substances absolutely necessary to the well being of a pig. We
pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organization of
this farm depends on us. Day and night we are watching over your
welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those
apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our
duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back!
Surely, comrades," cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping form
side to side and whisking his tail, "surely there is no one among
you who wants to see Jones come back?" The animals all are in
agreement that they do not want Jones back, therefore; believing
that the pigs health was the upmost concern (Orwell 820).
Here one can see that the animals are easily deceived through a
few big words and a lot of fast talking that can be easily confused if
one does not pay attention closely. When the animals agree with
the fact that they do not want Jones back they assume that they
must also be saying that the pigs need the apples and milk to
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