Throughout the extraordinary novel Animal Farm, George Orwell introduces us to a fact of life that is very true and hard to overcome. This fact of life is "absolute power corrupts absolutely", and through his great satire Animal Farm, Orwell informs us on how "absolute power corrupts absolutely". Orwell was a pure socialist and, he thought communism was just another way for the elite to control the majority of peasants. In animal farm, Orwell argues that absolute power corrupts absolutely, though communism is the perfect government on paper, propaganda and hypocrisy get the best of the system, when one becomes obsessed with the power one has, one tends to abuse it, animal farm is an excellent example of how power corrupts and Orwell uses allegory to suggest this.
             Propaganda, the systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause of information reflecting the views and interests of those people advocating such a doctrine or cause. Squealer, Napoleon's right-hand pig, is the character Orwell uses to symbolize Communist propaganda. You can pretty much look up any passages that feature Squealer and find a good example of propaganda. Particularly the passages that reference the changes in the Animal Code, such as "Animals shall not drink alcohol...in excess." It seems that as the pigs get more acquainted to power they bend the rules they made when they did not hold it. For instance, The 7 Commandments are abridged for the last time, simply reading, "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
             Allegory, a literary, dramatic, or pictorial device in which characters and events stand for abstract ideas, principles, or forces, so that the literal sense has or suggests a parallel, deeper symbolic sense. Orwell uses his allegorical farm to symbolize the communist system. Though the original intention of overthrowing Mr. Jones (who represents the Czars), is not inherently evil in itself, Napoleon&apos...