Political Leaders Can Be Pigs

The novel Animal Farm is an allegory of the Russian Revolution in 1917. An allegory is a story in which characters or events are symbols expressing truths about human life. Animal Farm is an allegory because many of the characters portray an important person during the Revolution. I believe that the most effective element in this allegory is its characters (mainly the pigs). The pigs were the leaders during the time of the Rebellion and after the Rebellion. They showed their power by ordering the other animals to work, and they also  got special privileges that some other animals didn't get. Some things that the pigs did get that the others didn't were extra food rations, they didn't have to do manual labor, and they got to learn how to read and write. The other animals could learn to read and write, but they didn't have much time to because they were working such long hours in the fields. The pigs would change the original Seven Commandments to suit their own needs, and the animals just let it happen because they couldn't read what they wrote anyways. This element of this particular allegory is the most effective because the leaders during the  Russian Revolution used their power for their needs, and not the needs of the people.