The True Terrors of Animal Farm

Your teacher lied. Animal Farm isn't just about communism. That reading misses why it should

terrify us today. Old Major said humans are parasites. Animals were genuinely oppressed,

their anger real, their desire for change valid. The pigs took charge,

not by election, but by knowledge. They wrote rules: 'All animals are equal.'

A social contract. The pigs started taking milk and apples. Not greed,

they explained, but 'brain food' for leadership. Inequality served the greater good.

Boxer, who gave everything, collapsed. Sent to a 'vet,' he was

sold to a glue factory. A loyal worker betrayed.