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The book "Animal Farm" is all based on psychology and sociology connection such as conflict theory and functionalist theory. The connection such as how they have the pig leader Napoleon as Joseph Stalin who slowly takes over the animal farm and does so with raising little suspicion amongst the animals.  Napoleon with the help of other fellow pigs, Mr. Frederickson (Adolf Hitler), and the dogs of which he raised from the beginning of the story which he used to over throw the competition that Snowball had against Napoleon. While many of the animals had doubts and suspicion of the pigs and dogs of the farm no one dared to go against leaders of the farm of fearing of what may happen.  This type of government system shows similar characteristics of dictatorship or communism coming into power.

The way the pigs advanced their way to the top of the government system by telling the animals of the farm that they were smart and would handle all of the situations that dealt with brain power.  From the beginning of when the pigs established the animal farm the neglected to keep their promises to the animals of the farm. First they slowly changed many of the seven commandments that they started out with, so that they would bend in the favor of the pigs and dogs.  But this is not how Old Major wanted the new system of control to work; Old Major wanted the new system to gain independence for all animals alike.  But the power and green became too much for the animals in charge and they soon began to abuse their power and mistreat all of the animals below them.  Such has when they promised plenty to eat for animals and easier work days. They soon turned around on the animals and actually cut down food rations and increased the work load that the animals had to do.

Napoleon and his cabinet of other pigs and dogs had ways of making the animals work harder and more with a purpose.  Such as when the windmill had been destroyed the pigs convinced the animals of the farm that Snowball had come back to seek revenge on the farm, when really it was only the storm the night before.  But this is just another way of how the pigs used their position of power to manipulate the animals of the farm to work in the favor of the pigs.

 Towards the end of the book you could start to tell that the animals of the farm had like rights/ independence that Old Major had mentioned at the beginning of the book.  But just the opposite; the animals received less food, harder work, and less independence than ever.  This only prove to show that the power of the animals was in the pigs hands, by the end of the book pigs were disobeying all of the previous seven commandments that had original been proposed before all of the amendments that occurred to them. In the end the pigs were walking on two feet, had the sheep chanting in the farm "four legs good two legs better", had established a great working relationship with the local farmers, and the animals could not tell the difference the humans and the pigs playing cards in the house formerly owned by Mr. Jones.

The class system was simply humans and animals, but by the end of the book there was animals in the social class with humans. The performances by the animals who served the pigs and dogs deserved the reward, while the pigs and dogs deserved nothing because they had destroyed the animal’s already terrible lives. But in the end the pigs were rewarded for manipulating the animals of Mr. Jones's farm. By the end of the book the "Animal Farm" never reached a healthy balance between powers. All the book showed was how power can only be tolerated for so long before another power comes along to over throw it, but makes same mistakes and creating a greed hungry government all over again. The cycle will never end until people get rid of all greed that they have for power.