Man is Pig and Pig is Man

Heavy work boots drum the ground, echoing off the crowded streets of Russia, and into the air, air now filled with the sounds of planes flying in formation above the crowds of people. Chanting, chanting as machine guns and tanks roll down the cobble stone streets on this day; once untouched by the eddy of corrupt power now flowing through Russia. May Day is just one example of how the Russian Revolution changed Russia, and it's people; a day that was full of life and joy, reduced to a day devoted to showing off Russia's guns. This day represents how the corruption of the revolution by it's leaders destroys any hope for a better world. The satire novel Animal Farm expresses an important point: problems ignored due to unawareness and greed will lead to corruption.
Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, writes the novel Animal Farm to poke fun at the Russian Revolution's idea of Communism. Orwell writes this novel shortly after his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, where he first saw communism in affect when he had to escape groups of communists in Spain. These experiences gave him the idea of how people can be so easily persuaded by propaganda and more so "the opinion of enlightened people in democratic countries." This uprising novelist was inspired to write about communism, and got the idea to use animals from a time when he saw a little boy driving a horse cart, whip in had, whipping the horse every time it tried to turn, and in this moment, Orwell had an ingenious thought: if animals were only smart enough to realize that they have enough power to override their human masters; much like how the animals on Animal Farm and the Russian citizens could easily have over thrown the pigs, or in real life, Stalin.
"Napoleon is always right." This quote, one of Boxer's maxims, shows how corrupt leaders have so much power over things; how once intelligent and insightful people lose their intelligence and begin to believe foolishness. Boxer, who represents the hard-working lower class of Russia, is a strong and powerful horse, much larger than any animal on the farm, and yet, he does not stand up to Napoleon because he is blinded by the propaganda the pigs put out. Once the animals realize that Animalism is not what they had envisioned it to be, it is too late; Napoleon and the pigs already have absolute power. Power is a blinding thing, and if you misuse it, the outcome could be drastic. In the novel, power is too large an extent for the pigs to handle, and slowly, slowly, they became what animal feared: Man.
George Orwell did not choose pigs to represent man by coincidence; pigs are the dirtiest animals one can think of. In the rush to get to food, many pigs get trampled by each other and when pigs are fed, all leftovers of any kind of food are given to them, for pigs do not deserve better. This is how George Orwell had wanted the reader to view man because it is true; man is greedy and ignorant. At the end of the novel, the animals can no longer tell the difference between pig and man, or man and pig, because of their crave for power. The decisions the pigs made led them to Animalism falling apart, such as the decisions Stalin made leading to the failing of Communism.