... is a theme that shows Orwell's intent to criticize the communist governments as he saw it spreading throughout Russia. He uses the farm as a symbol of this government system. The animals never really grasped the idea that their leader was gaining complete control. Orwell states, "Nobody stole, nobody grumbled over ... was overthrowing a democratic. This annihilated the entire theme because a theme should be a continuing idea that the viewer/reader extracts from their interpretation of events- not a statement illuminated by the narrator. Corruption by power is a theme in conjunction to t...

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