The Use Of Allegory In George Orwell's Animal Farm

Most farms are simple, but not the manor farm were the animals rebelled against humans and pigs terrorize and abuse power through the rest of their life. From the beginning of the farm and the revolution the pigs had the ultimate power and the other animals had no input to it whatsoever. All the animals are trapped in the situation of listening to who to follow, the humans or the pigs. In George Orwell’s 1945 novel Animal Farm, he uses allegory to criticize the corruption of the 1917 Russian Revolution ideals, condemning the leadership’s abuses of power. The seven commandments was one of the first things the pigs did to act as humans. They learned how to write and read, while maintaining a sense of government to the farm. But latter these seven
It is unfair how when the pigs or dogs break a rule they can just ignore it, make a excuse, or just change the commandment to make it look like they did not do anything wrong,”(91) By changing the commandments the animals show hypocritical thereby changing that commandments the pigs especially Napoleon are because they only change the commandments once they break them. But if another animal breaks them then they will be punished or banned from the farm. Orwell states, "My sight is failing," she said finally. "Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there. But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?" For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran: ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.(134) At the beginning of the novel the pigs main point of going against the humans was so that they would be equal and be more than a slave. The pigs were so hypocritical because later in the