In 1943, George Orwell began work on Animal Farm, a “fairy tale” that denounces the political and social dangers of totalitarianism. Animal Farm integrates the corruption of the bourgeoisie with the false consciousness of the proletariat to create a society that mirrors that led by Joseph Stalin. Orwell replaces his real-life inspirations for the book with animal characters, which fit perfectly with his theme of the manipulation of language within society. Orwell's Animal Farm gives its readers the perfect example of how a government can become corrupt, while the society it rules won't even notice. Animal Farm begins with an inspiring speech from Major, one of the oldest and most respected animals on the farm. Major's speech mimics the utopia that leaders like Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin dreamed of. He criticizes the workplace, where “almost the entire product of our labor is stolen from us by human beings (7)”. Marx believed that for the courts to be truly free, each person must be free to follow their own goals and desires, but this could not be done at the cost of harming another person. Like Marx, Major agreed that one should not profit from the labor of others. They believed that profit should be shared equally among all the people – or animals – who contributed. Major also added that "no animal should ever tyrannize over its kind (11)." Major's statement corresponds to Lenin's form of thinking. Lenin believed that for there to be a revolution, there needed to be a vanguard party to lead the proletariat into rebellion. It was not a person tyrannizing his own, but rather a group aiming to introduce a revolution in the world of work... middle of paper ... me, unequal with the other animals, he changed the rules of in a way that made the animals wonder if they had even been modified. For example, even though one of the Seven Commandments was "no animal shall kill another animal (25)", Napoleon changed the rules along the way to say "no animal shall kill another animal without reason (91 )”. This way, Napoleon was free to kill anyone who got in his way without the animals getting angry enough to attempt another rebellion. He used their inability to read – or remember – as a weapon against them, to control them further. Napoleon used the false consciousness of the proletariat to advance his own agenda, when everyone's original goal was to create a utopian society under socialism – or animalism – where everyone worked together and shared the same agenda.