Animal Farm

Animal Farm is a fable that represents Stalinism in Russia. Also, it can be related to how many world leaders, and politicians get away with things that others don't because of their position in the world. I think the main theme is that absolute power corrupts absolutely which we see once the pigs become identical to the humans at the end of the book. I think that Orwell is trying to tell us that even people who start out very idealistic can become corrupted. You can see this in how the pigs start out with Old Major's vision but are exactly like the people (oppressive) by the end of the book. At the start of the novel, the pigs were tormented, and worked hard like the other animals. But, at the end (after they had created all the rules) they were just as bad as the humans at the first. Another theme that I see is where history is bound to repeat itself if one is ignorant to the past. The animals had disregarded their prior knowledge of the events that had occurred, and the emotions that conveyed those events, so history was set into the same cycle once again. Never be ignorant to the past, or you can't help better yourself in the future. On the Animal Farm, no one was suppose to live in the house with the humans, take credit of the work of others, sleep comfortably on the beds, etc; But, however the pigs allowed themselves to because they were in control, and thought that they were so much higher than everyone else. But an important thing to remember is that Orwell was very purposely focusing on the individuals involved in the rise to power.

I feel like the quote “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Is the perfect quote for this book it shows just how things work. How we say all men are equal, but we know that some men are higher than others, and will receive more respect because of which they know or what they do. Another quote that I thought stood out among them all is “Never listen when they tell you that Man and