Animal Farm Tyrant

Throughout history, leaders take advantage of people, often in lust for more power. One example of this is in Animal Farm, by George Orwell. The animals seek to replace Mr.Jones, their human tyrant. Once they do this, the pigs emerge as leaders, eventually becoming what they sought to replace. For example, Napoleon kills everyone who opposes him, to make sure he stays in power indefinitely without opposition. Additionally, Napoleon and all the other pigs work the other animals while not doing any for themselves. Finally, the commandments of Animal Farm are changed to ensure the pigs can truly do whatever they please. By showing all the ways Napoleon manipulates and takes advantage of the other animals, Orwell is trying to convey a general message

After the exile of Mr.Jones, the animals work harder than ever to keep the farm running. However, the pigs do not work and they simply supervise the other animals on the farm. During Old Major’s speech to the animals, it is thoroughly expressed that “man is the only creature that consumes without producing”(Orwell 7). But despite all the work that the animals do “the pigs [do] not actually work”(Orwell 27). Clearly, the pigs “not actually working” proves they do not produce. While it can be argued that the pigs work by supervising the animals, Mr.Jones had also done the same thing. If the pigs and Mr.Jones do the same job and Mr.Jones is said to not produce, evidently the pigs do not produce either. The pigs have become like Mr.Jones, not actually doing any work and taking advantage of the other animals to keep the farm

The pigs originally made the commandments to prevent the animals from becoming like humans. But whenever the pigs seem to be ignoring them, the commandments seem to be saying something different. “...there occurred a strange incident which hardly anyone was able to understand…At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paintbrush, and an overturned pot of white paint.” While this incident could have been confusing to the animals, it is clear that Squealer was changing the commandments. To give even more evidence of this, Muriel reads the fifth commandment, “No animal shall drink alcohol to excess”(Add citation). The pigs use the new commandment as a justification for their human-like actions, because the animals are too dumb to understand why they seem to have been changed. Orwell constantly reminds us how the pigs take advantage of the animals’ stupidity to get away with becoming more and more like