Cold War Era. The pigs rise to power mirrors the rise of the Communist Party. Throughout the course of the novel, the pigs grow from being equal with the other animals to become overbearing, oppressive, sadistical tyrants.

As the novel begins, the pig Old Major shares with all the other animals on the Manor Farm his dreams of the perfect animal society and of someday being free of the chains of slavery. After Old Major dies, his dream of an animal rebellion against man becomes a reality. Three pigs Napoleon, Snowball, and Squealer gather all of Old Major's ideas and create Animalism. The pigs take the lead control at first due to the fact the Major was a pig and that "pigs, were manifestly cleverer than the other animals...”(62) and “ should decide all questions of farm policy...”(62) Is seems as though if not for the pigs taking control perhaps that Animal Farm would remain a dream. The pigs start off with good intentions, but always stand apart and have more power than the other animals.

The first year or so after the rebellion, the pigs follow the teachings of Animalism

and Animal Farm prospers, while the animals a

Through the years, Napoleon mirrors the head of the communist party Joseph Stalin. He has anyone who does not agree with him killed, changes the laws so they will only benefit himself instead of having them benefit the other animals, and makes the others work hard and takes the fruits of their toils for himself. George Orwell uses the pigs and the farm to show the audience what can happen to some societies even when they start off with the best intentions. By the end of the novel, the pigs become so corrupt that they even begin walking on two legs and carrying whips. The pigs have strayed so far from the original philosophy that there is no turning back. The pigs have become man, the enemy, everything that they were against they are now. The animals in the beginning of the novel had so many ideals, so many hopes for the future, but by the end these ideals are crushed along with the animals bodies. The animals may have escaped man, but now they have a new master, the PIG.

this time Napoleon is plotting a takeover. When Napoleon takes the litter of puppies the

re fed well, treated well, not overworked,

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