Animal Farm

Throughout the extraordinary novel Animal Farm, George Orwell introduces us to a fact of life that is very true and hard to overcome. This fact of life is “absolute power corrupts absolutely”, and through his great satire Animal Farm, Orwell informs us on how “absolute power corrupts absolutely”. Orwell was a pure socialist and, he thought communism was just another way for the elite to control the majority of peasants. In animal farm, Orwell argues …

…it might not be soon, it might not be within the lifetime of any animal now living, but still it was coming." Alcohol was originally seen as a grave evil of the new regime. Old Major repeatedly warns the animals against taking on Man's ways, but his concerns are not heeded. Really it was the issue of alcohol that made many of the animals suspicious of the pigs. Accordingly, Napoleon had Squealer change the commandments.