Introduction
Throughout the history of government and politics, there have been many powerful leaders and a wide variety of methods of controlling the people. However, as totalitarianism was on the rise in the early 20th century, the world began to discover the truly incredible and overwhelming effect that a single ruler can have over the population of a nation. Of course, this influence that men like Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler had at their disposal was not meant to be put to good use. These selfish and evil dictators ruled over their people with an oppressive iron fist, one that pumped out propaganda and eliminated naysayers to ensure that the iron fist would continue to grow in influence. Unfortunately, it was not until it was too late that the world began to understand the true motives of these malicious rulers, forever creating a strongly negative connotation of totalitarianism in our modern culture some eighty years later. George Orwell took these examples of totalitarian dictators and crafted his renowned masterpiece, Animal Farm, an incredibly eerie and depressing allegory about a farm in England where the animals overthrow the humans and create a seemingly perfect life for themselves. However, when the pigs take immediate control of the farm, a totalitarian state slowly but surely develops, including many parallels to the cruel dictators of real-life totalitarian states along the way. As you peruse this website, you may even lose sight of who is pig and who is human, until it is impossible to tell which is which...