Satire Animal Farm

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a dictatorship, made from political satire. He shows that everyone can abuse power, when given the chance. After the animals overthrow their human leader, the pigs gain control, and are in charge. The farm animals continue to do their work, but even faster, harder, and more efficient because they are working for themselves and not some human. As the pigs realize they are becoming even harder workers, they realize they hold all the power amongst them. They become even more power-hungry and corrupt with the idea that they can essentially boss the other animals around. Therefore the pigs are becoming like the humans they despised. Since they supervised the other animals and not actually work, it came natural to them to assume how much power they actually had.

They all resent the humans because they think they are the greatest thing since sliced bread. They boss around the animals and are not good owners. So the animals decide they want to run the farm by themselves, and they call it animalism. There are two rules to animalism. All animals are to be treated as equals, and no animals shall acquire any human traits or characteristics whatsoever. As soon as the animals come up with the seven commandments, and all of the basic principles, they overthrow all the humans that run the farm. In turn, even though all the animals are suppose to be equal, the pigs begin to take control of all the other animals. Throughout the story the pigs end up breaking all seven commandments, because they were so involved in the power they possessed, they didn’t even realize. The commandments are suppose to be followed by all of the animals at all times. For example, the sixth commandment says that no animal shall kill any other animal. Napoleon breaks it by killing the chickens he says are against him. He then breaks it again, although he didn’t kill Snowball personally, he still sent out a hit on