Absolute power

Authors note: I had a lot of ideas for this post and I tried to put them into writing but they just wouldn't mesh together so I tried using quotes from the book and from other authors that I thought expressed my ideas well and I think it turned out okay.  Comment please!!!

In the beginning of animal farm the pigs are the leaders of the rebellion and live by the seven commandments of animalism and believe that all animals are equal no matter how smart of big or productive much like Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky at the beginning of the revolution. Later in the book, the pigs start getting power hungry and proclaim death on other animals and treating other animals like slaves, meanwhile the pigs are living in the plush farmhouse and only coming out to yell at the other animals.  George Orwell is trying to say that it wasn't the czar's fault that Russia was a mess, it was the fault of absolute power.

"Sometimes the work was hard; the implements had been designed for human beings and not for animals, and it was a great drawback that no animal was able to use any tool that involved standing on his hind legs. But the pigs were so clever that they could think of a way round every difficulty. As for the horses, they knew every inch of the field, and in fact understood the business of mowing and raking far better than Jones and his men had ever done. The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the leadership." Even in the early stages of animal farm, the pigs took the role of leadership in a system that supposedly had no leader.  Also, because they were so smart the pigs started taking advantage of the other animals and bending the commandments so that they could were clothes and sleep in beds and walk on their hind lags just because the other animals couldn't read.  The thing that struck me most about the pigs change was that Napoleon started killing people for being in contact with snowball in a society that said no killing was allowed.  Orwell was portraying that the pigs were changing all throughout the book and they were coming to be just like the czar and czarina.

"Knowledge is dangerous" Patrick Ness once said in his novel "The Knife of Letting Go" and the pigs were becoming more clever and more dangerous until they pulled the last straw meeting up with man. " The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."That is what Orwell is trying to say.  That if you keep putting absolute power in the equation, the same thing keeps happening over and over again.