Question

Read the excerpt from chapter 10 of Animal Farm.

Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer—except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. Perhaps this was partly because there were so many pigs and so many dogs. It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion. There was, as Squealer was never tired of explaining, endless work in the supervision and organisation of the farm. Much of this work was of a kind that the other animals were too ignorant to understand.

Which theme is revealed by Orwell’s use of situational irony in this excerpt?

Leaders should not be trusted.
Ideals can become mocked in practice.
Naïve citizens allow corrupt governments.
Equality applies to all social classes.

Answer 1

Naïve citizens allow corrupt governments

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Answer 2

The theme that is revealed in this excerpt is: Naïve citizens allow corrupt governments. In this passage of the novel, it is demonstrated that the naivety of the working-class animals is one of the main reasons of their oppression. The tyranny of the pigs kept the other animals ignorant enough to let them possibly understand that they have been deceived by the false ideals of the rebellion. At the end, the gullibility of the animals becomes the best weapon of Napoleon to reaffirm his dictatorship, in which the pigs can have a comfortable life at the expenses of the other animals.