In Animal Farm, George Orwell develops a story of the downfall of communism through vivid descriptions and word usage. One of the first characters in the book, Old Major, had a great idea in which the animals would live in complete utopia where humans were gone and the animals would rule the world. However, as the story progresses, everything becomes a disaster. The pigs, who are cunning but evil, take over the farm, while the rest are portrayed as slaves and/or labor workers. One of the pigs, Napoleon, turned out to be the leader after he got rid of the former leader of the farm, Snowball. All in all, what was a farm that was fair and just turned into a farm with corruption and injustice.
The pigs played a vital role in messing everything at Animal Farm after Jones was exiled from the farm. The proof is everywhere starting when the pigs started taking the milk for their own selfish ambitions as stated here by Squealer, "Comrades!", he cried, "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig."
From then on, the pigs start to bend The Seven Commandments, and later on, started to seriously break the rules by revising them for their own convenience. We see that the pigs, mainly Squealer, revising the rules of The Commandments when we read "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 Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint brush, and an overturned pot of white paint.". Squealer knew that he and the rest of the pigs were breaking the rules, so he decided to change them so that nobody would think that they would actually be breaking the Seven Commandments. In my belief, the pigs, representing propaganda during the Russian Revolution, helped people who were born into royalty while giving everybody else nothing.
