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Hidden contribution of negativityGeorge Orwell, in the novel Animal Farm, shows the power, greed, inequality and fear in a region. The story speaks in a humorous tone using animals as a comparison to the people of the Russian Revolution of 1917. George Orwell speaks specifically about this topic to show the cycle of totalitarianism. He expresses his opinion and how he perceives human nature as they constantly try to do any action that would specifically benefit them. Humans tend to be oppressive towards another person and organism. The taste for power fuels their bottomless thirst for more, forcing them to display fear towards their comrades so that they can obtain their desire. The chain of totalitarians begins with a farmer named Jones. He took control of the entire farm and the animals on it. Jones did not treat the animal fairly, but he often drank wine and was drunk. A wise old pig named Old Major (compared to Karl Marx in the Russian Revolution) had seen enough of how foolish Jones was for having farm animals and told the group of animals to unite as as allies to fight and overthrow the leader. The old major gave an inspiring speech. He quickly created an animalism similar to what Karl Marx did when he was creating Marxism. After a series of battles, Napoleon, who was a pig, gains power to lead all the farm animals into their future. All the pigs, including Napoleon, told the animal farm to work harder to succeed. Napoleon, who represents Stalin as an allegory, did all sorts of things to make the animal more egalitarian. Just as Stalin did not follow Karl Marx's idea, Napoleon created a creation similar to the Seven Commandments. This was just the beginning of tasting the power where it changes the wise pig, that everyone... middle of paper ...... abuses a cheater to gain an advantage. After realizing that they are cheating, the whole group argues together, showing how in sync and identical they are all in terms of personality. They became similar to the point "The creatures outside looked from the pig to the man and from the man to the pig, and from the pig to the master again"; (Orwell 141). This shows the totalitarian cycle as the pig who was once part of the revolution to get rid of the human has now become like the human starting the cycle again. This whole story focuses on how the mixture of power and greed leads to a totalitarian cycle. . As the pigs gain power and control over the farm, their greed begins to take over and, little by little, before anyone realizes it, they have become like humans. Those who hold great power abuse it to deceive and oppress everyone in the region. As fear grows, pigs have access to whatever they want.