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This is basically the starts of my essay, please do not copy my work.<br><br>"We pigs are brain-workers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed to do our duty? Jones would come back!" (pages 38-9)<br><br>Given that Orwell's purpose in writing Animal Farm was to warn people that revolutions often end as dictatorships, discuss the importance of this passage in the novel as a whole.<br><br>1. The speaker of the passage is Squealer. He is acting on behalf of himself and the other pigs. The purpose of his speech is to make all the other animals believe that what the pigs are doing is right. Squealer’s strategies to convince the animals are that he threatened them and said that Mr. Jones would come back. He said that the pigs did not like the milk and apples (selflessness???) but they needed them to be able to work as they have a very special role. The pigs have bent the rules for themselves and therefore there is now a hierarchy. They have convinced the animals that they are not doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege but in their sole object which is to preserve their health so they can continue running the farm. Squealer used science as a reason why the pigs need the milk and apples. None of the animals can fight against it as they do not know anything about science.<br>2. The milk and apples are important because it is food. Food is something which keeps them going and which started the revolution because they believed that they would get more food once they had thrown out Mr. Jones. The other creatures thought that the milk would be mixed in with their mash. They thought that the apples would have been shared out equally. Because only the pigs got the milk and apples it shows that they are higher up in the hierarchy. Things have not changed and the animals are now still not happy with the amount of food they have.<br>3. The principle in the seven commandments that are broken in this incident is that “all animals are equal” and also another one is that “whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend” because the pigs have not shown friendship by thinking themselves above every other animal and eating all the milk and apples themselves. In the rest of the story, all the commandments are broken and as they are broken they are changed so the pigs are questioned and the animals don’t turn against them e.g. the fourth commandment “NO ANIMAL SHALL SLEEP IN A BED” (Pg 29) was changed to “NO ANIMAL SHALL SLEEP IN A BED WITH SHEETS” (Pg 66). The commandment was changed because the pigs wanted to sleep in the beds in the house.<br>4. This incident fits into Orwell’s satire of the Communist revolution and the rise of Stalin as a dictator by how they replaced one dictatorship by one which is no better. Napoleon rises as a dictator because he is corrupted by power. The important themes are that when you replace a dictator when times are bad, you must be careful because if you try to make a communist country, other dictators who can take up power can be worse than the dictators that came before them.