Pig's Role in Animal Farm by George Orwell

📌Category: Animal Farm, Books, Orwell, Writers
📌Words: 602
📌Pages: 3
📌Published: 20 January 2022

Humans become very immoral when they are hungry for power and control. They hurt and deceive innocent people for their own benefit. Innocent people suffer by means of death, loss of life, or poverty as well as many other things, and they get deceived by being presented with a wonderful idea for their state only to later find out the person presenting the idea was deceiving them for power and control. We can see this in Animal Farm through the role of the pigs when they became the leaders of the animals. When we read about Stalin we see that he also used many similar tactics when ruling the Soviet Union. 

The first situation that takes place in the story is when the men rush into the farm to regain control of it from the animals. “The geese, who had been hiding behind the hedge, rushed out and pecked viciously at the calves of their legs. However, this was only a light skirmishing manoeuvre, intended to create a little disorder, and the men easily drove the geese off with their sticks.” (Orwell, 13). This quote shows how the more vulnerable people end up taking the most suffering, in this example the geese, who were weaker than many other animals ended up getting hurt by the men. This quote also shows how the pigs who are considered the leaders were sending out the geese knowing that they were too weak to do anything. When Stalin was ruling the Soviet Union he would also target many vulnerable people, for example, he would exploit the working class and overwork them, and when they were unable to fulfill his demands he would order killings on them. He did this to make people fear him and so that they always follow his commands, hence Krushchev said he had a “cult-like personality”.

In this example, the animals that were being targeted were hurt physically. When the animals were not being physically hurt they were still being taken advantage of. The pigs were deceiving the animals by pushing the idea that all animals are equal and that they are all working for their own benefit. In reality, there was no equality among the animals and all the work they were doing was benefiting the pigs.

Another situation that further proves how power corrupts people, is when the animals take control of the farm and are starting to do work to sustain it. "Never mind the milk, comrades!" cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets. "That will be attended to.” The harvest is more important.” (Orwell, 9). In this situation, the animals were questioning what happened to the milk and the pigs told them not to worry about it as there are more important things to worry about. In reality, the milk was taken by the pigs to keep for themselves, and they were just trying to make the animals forget about it. This shows that from the very beginning the pigs were not treating every animal equally and were lying to them about their idea of equality. This is an accurate representation of what Stalin did to gain power, as we know he pushed the idea of communism which seemed like a great idea, but when Stalin finally got the power he wanted, he became corrupt and started to do things that benefit him even if that meant to hurt and lie to other people. 

In conclusion, people have a very bad nature when it comes to wanting power. The greed for power causes them to do immoral things like hurting innocent people. They also try to build up a following through lies and manipulation, and when they gain power they forget everything they said and start to hurt the same people that supported them. These things are exactly what the pigs did in Animal Farm, as well as Stalin when ruling the Soviet Union.

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