At the end of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Napoleon, the pig who emerges as the leader of the farm, becomes indistinguishable from the oppressive humans the animals sought to overthrow. In the final scenes, he hosts a banquet for the surrounding human farmers and displays a life of luxury, often contradicting the original principles laid out in the Seven Commandments of Animalism. Ultimately, the other animals can no longer tell the difference between the pigs and the humans, which symbolizes how power corrupts and the cycle of tyranny is perpetuated.
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