How Does The Government Change In Animal Farm

Government change has less to do with corruption as it does with the needs of certain people. Animal Farm is a story about a farm full of animals. To begin, the animals rebel against the farmer, Jones, and start their own self sufficient farm. As the farm continues to be self sufficient a leader takes control, he changes the way the farm is run. Finally, the story concludes when the leader turns to the humans and begins to act similar to them. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Orwell reveals how a government is always changing to meet specific needs of the society.

Animal Farm begins with the pigs as leaders trying to make the farm a communist society. In the story it says, “There was no wastage whatever… And not an animal on the farm had stolen so much as a mouthful” (36). The food on the farm is distributed evenly among the animals and everyone does their job to better the farm. The pigs choose to run the government on the farm similar to a communist society, the animals share the rations and are treated equal to every other animal on the farm. Above all, the needs of the farm were satisfied by this society and everyone benefitted from it.

As the pigs gain more power they manipulate the animals to make the farm better for themselves. “‘You have heard then, comrades,’ he said, ‘that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse?
Needs of the people are said to be ahead of the needs or wants of the leader, but in cases like Animal Farm the needs and wants of the leader ends up being put first. Often, their visions end up changing the government and it is easy to overlook the subtle changes. A government can benefit or suffer because of these changes. When a society changes their government it is difficult to change back, especially when the leaders put their own needs first and then it affects the society, governments around them, and the people of the