Introduction
The story is on personified animals to illustrate a typical community life. The author used animals to illustrate the struggles that a community and its leaders go through. The story is based on the dream of Major, who is a significant figure in the animal kingdom. Major has a dream of a great kingdom without the dominance of human beings; therefore, he calls a meeting to tell the animals of his plan to chase away the farm owner Mr. Jones from the farm to get their freedom. However, Major dies three nights later. His death does not stop the animals' plan, as they were highly enthusiastic about it. Three pigs, Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer, take up the role of leadership (Orwell, 2017). They organize a revolution through which they manage to chase away the farm owner and become the leaders of the kingdom.
They lead the kingdom successfully and form the seven commandments of animalism. But unity does not last long. Snowball and Napoleon start to disagree on the need for a windmill to generate electricity for the farm (Orwell, 2017). They, therefore, call a meeting to allow the animals to vote on what they think is the best option. During the meeting, Napoleon organizes to have dogs chase away Snowball from the kingdom. He takes up the role of the overall leader, and he bans all debates on the decision making process. Due to selfishness, Napoleon makes wrong decisions that cost him the kingdom. Although the animals had prohibited all animals from engaging in activities similar to those of human beings such as wearing clothes, sleeping in beds, or trading with human beings, Napoleon goes contrary to them an engages in all, which ultimately leads to the collapse of the kingdom.
The book is developed using personification to illustrate how leaders turn against each and become selfish. In the beginning, the three pigs worked in unison to lead the animals in their quest to overthrow Mr. Jones. However, greed comes in between Napoleon and Snowball, which is on a development meant to help the animals. Out of selfishness, Napoleon chases away Snowball and lies to the animals that the windmill idea was his idea (Orwell, 2017). In the same way, leaders, in the desire to be more popular than others, often hate and speak ill of others to gain favor among the led. In that quest, the people get misled and suffer the ultimate loss. Development projects get stalled, and the political alignments divide them along with different affiliations.
Conclusion
The incidence of Napoleon amending the animalism constitution o "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" (Orwell, 2017) is also a reflection of what leaders do when they have power at their disposal. Napoleon adopted humanly ways such as wearing clothes and sleeping on a bed, which was not allowed in the initial constitution that unified all animals. Rogue leaders amend the constitution to favor them even when their followers do not approve. The practice of Napoleon striking deals with humans that ultimately led to his fall is also an illustration of how deals that are not well thought can bring down a country. In a modern context, such agreements could be interpreted for wrong economic and trade deals that affect the economy of the country negatively. In all deals, leaders are expected to consult with their boards on the best before making decisions that affect the whole country.
