The Hidden Truth of Animal Farm

Most think Animal Farm is about communism, but it is about how revolutions

contain seeds of their own corruption. Old Major is a boar of privilege,

romanticizing revolution while never having actually fought for anything himself. The pigs are

already corrupt in chapter one, taking the milk and apples before the revolution even

happens. Control is seized not through violence, but literacy. They write the

rules because they are the smartest. The pigs use the old master as a boogeyman

to justify their new oppression and growing privileges. Napoleon didn't become a dictator; he

always was one, training his secret dogs since they were puppies. History is rewritten,