The Cycle Of Power In George Orwell's Animal Farm

Animal Farm by George Orwell illustrates a story about communism told in a setting of a farm. Over the course of a few years of being mistreated by an alcoholic farmer named Jones, the animals plan a revolution to kick Jones off of the farm. The animals then give power to the pigs, who paint a picture of an utopian farm in the animals minds. They then apply seven commandments to keep the animals in check, but, the hypocritical pigs don’t follow their own rules which leads to the downfall of the farm; starting from stealing other animals’ property and changing rules to being the cause of a massacre. George Orwell, expresses a cycle of power in Animal Farm through the pigs and human, by portraying how power in the wrong hands can be misused to

Once the pigs gained control over the farm and soon ruled the farm, they started to take advantage of the animals by stealing the cows milk and the animals apples. After the animals wondered where all of the milk and apples went, the pigs soon told everyone that “It was mixed every day into the pigs mash... At this, some of the other animals murmured, but it was no use. All the pigs were in full agreement” (Orwell 35). With control over the food rations and keeping all of the precious foods for themselves, such as milk and apples, the pigs expressed their power of greed and the power to influence the animals with persuasion. Another example of power was shown when the animals murmured, but soon gave up because the animals knew that the pigs would do nothing about it, or change a commandment so that the commandments would only favor the

Power is portrayed by first having the seven commandments that favored everyone and kept the animals equality balanced to then having that equality stripped away with one commandment, that only favors the pigs. One example of this is when the pigs slept in the farmers bed, or walked on two feet, something that farmer Jones did, with their excuse that “all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” (Orwell 134). In this quote, the pigs draw a line between the leaders and the workers by saying that all animals are equal (the workers) but, some animals are more equal than other referring to the