Animal Farm -- George Orwell, 1945
from a summary of themes with my edited notations: sparknotes.com
The Windmill
The great windmill symbolizes the pigs' manipulation of the other animals for their own gain. Despite the immediacy of the need for food and warmth (strong economy, freedom, liberty, & independence), the pigs exploit Boxer and the other common animals (naïve working class) by making them undertake backbreaking labor (income, payroll, capital gains, estate taxes, etc.) to build the windmill, which will ultimately earn the pigs more money and thus increase their power. The pigs' declaration that Snowball (George W. Bush (Republicans)) is responsible for the windmill's first collapse constitutes psychological manipulation, as it prevents the common animals from doubting the pigs' (Obama, Reid, Pelosi et al (socialist Democrats)) abilities and unites them against a supposed enemy. The ultimate conversion of the windmill to commercial use (stimulus spending buys preferred stock in American companies whose future dividends will not go to repaying the American taxpayer, nor will they be available to fund the companies' growth, but will instead be reinvested in a new, new deal.) is one more sign of the pigs' betrayal of their fellow animals. From an allegorical point of view, the windmill represents the enormous modernization projects undertaken in Soviet Russia after the Russian Revolution (which failed and will fail our economy -- Federal 'infrastructure, uneconomical 'green' industries, universal healthcare, etc.).
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