In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, he demonstrates the characteristics and the quality of the leadership of the pigs. George Orwell establishes the pigs as dictators and tells us how they use and abuse their power with their actions and words.
George Orwell starts off by showing us how the pigs start off their campaign to tyranny. The pigs are gaining power when Old Major dies, and Snowball and Napoleon assume command, and turn Old Major’s dream into a philosophy. The animals revolt and drive the drunken and irresponsible Mr. Jones from the farm, renaming the farm to “Animal Farm”. All under the commands of the pigs. The author is showing us how good of leaders the pigs to then show us how the power gets to them and start to become tyrants.
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The pigs are learning about the ways of the humans and want to adapt to what the humans are and change the commandments to their favor. The fifth commandment states “No animal shall drink alcohol,” until Squealer changes it to, “No animal shall drink alcohol to excess”. (108-109) Just after the pigs found Mr. Jones’ whisky. They have also change the commandment of, “No animal shall sleep in beds” to “No animal shall sleep in beds with sheets,” when the pigs are discovered to have been sleeping in the old farmhouse. In my perspective, George Orwell has now shown the reader how unfair and unequal the pigs really are. Not only are they being abused the other animals but also lie to them when they told them that every animal is equal. By finding stuff that the animals enjoy, they change the rules for their personal purposes and having no consent for anything else for the animals. All that George Orwell is telling the reader is that the pigs are nothing better than Mr. Jones. Being disrespectful and not caring about anyone but yourself. Sounds pretty human to me. Defeating the whole point of revolting in the first