In the novel Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, Orwell muses on the dangers that occur when one government overthrows another. Orwell indicates his belief that revolutions often result in governments that are more oppressive, totalitarian, and deadly than the ones they overthrew. It is clear that despite the seemingly altruistic motives of many leaders, they are often power-hungry individuals who cover their actions with the defense that they are done for the greater good of society. Orwell's goal in Animal Farm is to ridicule and mock politicians, particularly their public speaking, their ability to control others, and their unquenchable lust for power. The central theme of Animal Farm is that things are not what they seem. Orwell proves this by focusing on the tendency of those who advocate the most honorable ideas to become the worst enemies of the people whose lives they are claiming to improve. Furthermore Orwell offers an assessment of the development of tyranny and the human propensity to maintain and reestablish class structures even in societies that allegedly stand for total equality.
             Orwell illustrates how classes that are initially unified in the face of a common enemy, as the animals are against the humans, may become internally divided when that enemy is eliminated. The expulsion of Mr. Jones creates a power vacuum, and it is only so long before the next oppressor assumes totalitarian control. The natural division between intellectual and physical labor quickly comes to express itself as a new set of class divisions, with the "brain workers" (as the pigs claim to be) using their superior intelligence to manipulate society to their own benefit (Orwell 28). Such status enabled the pigs to decide "all questions of farm policy without the ratification of the other animals," (Orwell 42). The novel points to the force of this tendency toward class stratification in many communities and the threat...