The Rise and Fall of Animalism

The Rise and Fall of Animalism

This longing for power is already evident in the first chapter. What

is freedom? Freedom is when you have power over your self. The animals

want this. "The

work of teaching and organising fell naturally upon the pigs, who were

generally recognised as being the cleverest of animals." Already the

pigs have more

power over the other animals. The animals believe the pigs are more

intelligent so they think that the Pigs should teach and organise.

Organise? Isn't organising

a sort of ruling. Yes, the pigs are ruling even before the revolution.

They have power over the animals even before the Revolution. After the

revolution, the pigs start to rule. They give orders, they do not do

the manual work they supervise. They have the power to give orders,

the power to only supervise while the rest do all the hard work.

Power corrupts! This is and will always be true until human nature is

swept off the face of the earth. The boars get the apples and milk.

"Our sole object in

taking these thing is to preserve our health." Snowball manages to

"...turn black into white..." and make the robbing sound euphemistic.

The animals do not see

the truth and are cheated. Squealer uses his ability to "...turn black

into white..." for the pigs own good. He is abusing his power.

The more you get the more you want. A simple but true statement.

Napoleon has power, but he still wants more of it. "But it was noticed

that these two

[Napoleon and Snowball] were never in agreement..." Napoleon and

Snowball do not want to share their power between themselves. They

want total power.

They disagree with each other; they fight against each other to show

off their power. They compete against themselves.

The counter-revolution led by Jones shows us that people do not give

up their power so easily. They will fight until the end to preserve

it. Napoleon and

Snowball again disagree with each other in the windmill affair.