This example of behaviour indicates the human quality of love and compassion towards others.

While Benjamin, who has enough intelligence and independence of mind to understand what is happening, refuses to get involved in the political life of the farm. His clear attitude in the story is an example of what Orwell regarded as one of the worst social sins: intelligence, which refuses to take political responsibility.

The pigs, who give themselves the education and privileges which mark a ruling class, use the power which gives them (and the force of terror provided by Napoleon’s dogs) possibility to control the other animals in ways that are different from those used by ruling group before the Revolution (Jones and his men) but are even more effective, because the pigs establish power over the other animals’ mind as well as their bodies.

Much of this power is established by the pigs’ use of language for their own purpose: one of Orwell’s major concerns was the way of language was being used as a weapon of propaganda for the ruling classes of different societies, and there are many examples in Animal Farm of the pigs using language to gain and keep political control.

From Squealer’s ingenious explanation of why pigs, but not other animals, should have milk and apples in beds, to his explanation of Napoleon’s change of attitude to the windmill, the language is used as one of the best implements how to not only control but even influence powerless people as it was possible to see in communist Russia as well as in Nazi Germany and other totalitarian states.

In several cases language is used to persuade the other animals not to believe the evidence of their own senses, as when Snowball’s role in the battle of the Cowshed is later denied, and when the animals are convinced that they can not be as hungry as they are, because there is not really a reduction in rations, only a “readjustment”. Above all language plays a vital part in the story because the Revolution is based on the Seven Commandments of old Major, and it is the changes in their wording that chart the pigs’ gradual betrayal of the principles of the Revolution – and the mindless chanting of slogans by the sheep that prevents too many awkward questions from being asked.

At the end of the story the pigs invited Jones and his friends to the farm and they all started to booze together. Later on it is not possible to distinguish, who is human being and who pig because they are all very drunk.

Orwell is not suggesting that true revolution is possible, but there is always a danger of the revolution being betrayed, and that language is a major tool of the betrayal.