Corruption In George Orwell's Animal Farm

In Animal Farm, the corrupt leaders, the pigs, live a lavish life while the other animals are struggling to survive. Alev Yemenici said in his article, “In a society where people have no voice, if the ruling body with privileges such as special education, luxury and titles, has absolute power, this will lead to total corruption and disintegration of values.” This “total corruption and disintegration of values” is seen with the pigs. The pigs are more intelligent; they are able to read books and comprehend “human” ideas. They also have the dogs for protection. At a point in the story, the pigs move into the farmhouse. The farmhouse is warm, full of food, and has nice beds for the pigs to sleep on. While the pigs are enjoying lavishes, the other animals are fighting over food and have to sleep on dirt beds. The only way the pigs got to live this way was through the sacrifice
Bornedal explains the parties: “Orwell’s society has three classes, the ‘Inner party,’ which are the privileged closest to the power center; the ‘Outer party’; which are living a shabby existence, employed mostly in the huge bureaucracy, in various kinds of service functions; then there is finally the Proles (the Proletariat), which is so declassed that the Inner Party does not bother about repressing them. They live in an almost animal existence.”
The idea that the wealthy live off the poor goes back to Orwell and his experiences that influenced his writings. Gregory Claeys in his article, “Industrialism and Hedonism in Orwell’s Literary and Political Development” says, “Orwell was also taken with the thought that there was a connection between the degrading life of the plongeur and his associates and the attempt to provide luxuries for the wealthy” (221). Through the class division in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell wanted to highlight the corruption of the