In Animal Farm Orwell depicts equality as if all the animals are going to be equal when they take over the farm. Equality can be defined as being equal, in status, rights …show more content…
“Comrades! He cried. You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. Milk and apples (this has been proved by science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig.” (page 35) Here it shows how Orwell views the theme of greed, the pigs became very greedy over time but they hid the fact very well from the animals. “Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer - except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.” (page 123) Orwell explains how everything grew bigger and better around the animals apart from the actual animals, they never got any ‘richer’ so to say yet the pigs and dogs were sitting on gold bars. “Nobody stole, nobody grumbled about over his rations, the quarreling and biting and jealousy which had been normal features of life in the old days had almost disappeared.” (page 29) This further demonstrates Orwell’s thoughts towards how the animals were fooled by the pigs in thinking that everything was fair so they had stopped fighting. Orwell displays greed as the pigs and dogs getting all of the better stuff instead of everyone being