The Importance Of Power In George Orwell's Animal Farm

In George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” the animals gain power of the farm after it is taken from Mr Jones, the previous human owner. The pigs place themselves as the leaders because they realize that because they have a higher understanding in education, they can get away with putting themselves in that position. Gradually the power begins to corrupt the pigs and they start acting as the human farmers do. They do so without the animals taking notice through indoctrination, or making the animals believe the pigs are doing good and helping the other animals. This is how the pigs gained power through education.

Since the pigs are devious, they bend previous sayings, such as the Seven Commandments, for their own well being. “One night at about twelve o’clock there was a loud crash in the yard, and the animals rushed out of their stalls. It was a moonlit night. At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven

The windmill is supposed to be built so that the animals won’t have to work as hard at cutting the hay, along with “Squealer explained privately to the other animals that Napoleon had never in reality been opposed to the windmill. On the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which Snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from Napoleon’s papers” (Orwell 27). This is one of the main examples of how Napoleon takes credit for other animals’ work. He also, along with the other pigs, gradually take away food from the working animals for themselves. The animals become unhappy with how little food they’re getting, but Napoleon threatens them to stay away from that topic by forcing some of the animals to admit to false crimes at a meeting. Once they see some of their comrades slaughtered, the animals decide that it might be best to control what they say out of fear from