Animal Pharm (second half)

        In the second half of Animal Farm, things really start to go downhill for the farm animals as Napoleon secures his place of power and unquestioned rule among his "comrades".  Squealer, nothing more than a puppet of Napoleon's, spreads more preposterous nonsense to the rest of the animals, who by now are two infatuated (and just plain stupid) with Napoleon's notions of "freedom" that they can't even tell right from wrong anymore - they don't even realize that they are being worked to death (quite literally, in boxer's case) by Napoleon, and that they are living under much harsher conditions than when humans ran the farm.  It seems to me that Napoleon's grip over the other animals tightens more and more the smarter - and ultimately more human - he becomes, eventually getting to the point where he wears clothes and walks upright; and at the same time he (unbeknownst by his brainwashed "comrades") narrows the seven commandments down to just one.