Trace the growth of the pig in Animal Farm, What lessons does Orwell wish us to draw from this?

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Trace the growth of the pig in Animal Farm, What lessons does Orwell wish us to draw from this?

Animal Farm is a book in which we see that pigs, after a rebellion, got power and how this affected the other animals behaviour. Before the rebellion against the human race, the animals had only one important rule

“All animals are equal”

The animals wanted a new society were they could decide for themselves what they would do and that it was going to be better because they were not going to be exploited by Mr. Jones or any other man that was going to ‘rule’ in their farm but this would be without gaining anything that they’d produced. That is why they wanted an equal society because they ‘thought’  that there wasn’t going to be anyone supposed to be better.

“ And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.”

Old Major, the oldest pig in the farm, said how the new society should be. He made a theory in which the  animals had to put it on practice. This part was taken from history real life, when Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto where he showed how society should be but he didn’t put it into practice expecting communist leaders to do so in the way he wanted. But still they adapted  to Marx’s theory which they thought was the best one and the most rational, after the Russian Revolution the leaders that took  the power and forgot what was the real meaning of why they got to that place and what was the purpose of being there that was to make an equal society, although they new that it was utopia.

“And remember also that, in fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.”

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From what Old Major has said we see that he  prevented the other animals of the pigs, but without telling them who they were. When Old Major dies Snowball and Napoleon appear as the new leaders in a society where there weren’t going to be leaders or someone better. They are two pigs that had excellent abilities as leaders, they were persuasive, they had ideas, and they said they wanted what Old Major had proposed. Pigs dedicated to teach and organize the others for the rebellion as for what the new society would be like, this new society would ...

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