Throughout the George Orwell’s novella Animal Farm, the theme of power affects society develops consistently throughout the ten chapters of the book. Since the beginning of Old Major’s teachings, pigs have been the top of the social hierarchy due to their intelligence. Due to the amount of power intelligence gave the pigs, they were able to control and manipulate the animals into working and fighting. The animals were very simpleminded, leading to thinking the pigs are always true. In addition, the pigs exploited power tremendously by being the only ones to resolve or come up with any ideas; the other animals, however, could “never think of any resolutions of their own”(Orwell 31). Next, power affects society negatively because rules can be