Krystle Colbert English Pre A-P 9-1 December 8, 1999 Animal Farm 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 …showed first 75 words of 1139 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1139 total…the pigs and the blatant ignorance of the animals. The pigs actions can also be seen in the human race. Many times humans can be manipulative towards each other and they may also take advantage of each others ignorance of something. The main moral that one should take away from the novel Animal Farm is that one should inform thyself on all aspects of a topic and should not be, or appear to be, naive.