The story follows the animals of Manor Farm overthrowing the drunken farmer Mr. Jones, establishing the Seven Commandments of Animalism under pigs Snowball and Napoleon, and watching the ideals collapse into tyranny as the pigs adopt human vices and declare that “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Orwell explicitly framed the novella as a critique of Stalinist Russia and the corruption of revolutionary power, with Napoleon standing in for Stalin and the windmill project echoing Soviet five-year plans. No characters undergo race, gender, or sexuality alterations; no dialogue addresses systemic identity-based oppression, patriarchy, or DEI concepts; and the narrative tradition of power corrupting ideals aligns with longstanding literary tropes rather than contemporary activism.