The Decline of Freedom on Animal Farm The simple idea of a world with no humans was introduced to the animals by a pig named Old Major. This led to a revolution like no other. The animals of Animal Farm, a book by George Orwell, decide that there has to be something better for them than the life they are living. It is dominated by humans who treat the animals with little respect for all the things the animals do for them. After a great injustice is done to them a revolution takes place. The animals try to survive by themselves in a peaceful, democratic way, but one pig named Napoleon enjoys the taste of power and turns it into a dictatorship. Throughout the whole st