Over time, Napoleon took control and changes many of the rules and history of the revolution. George Orwell in both Animal Farms and 1984 jump on two themes- the totalitarian government attempt to control both the language and history for to control language and history is to control the memory of the people.

In Animal Farm, Napoleon continues to update the original commandments:
· All Animals are equal but some Animals are more equal than others as the Pig consolidate their leadership. Equality that was the goal of the revolution no longer existed as it no longer existed in the Soviet Union.

In the end, Napoleon negotiated with the enemy and in the concluding scene; he made his peace with the local farmers and they with him. The revolution betrayed but as Orwell shyly writes, "Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs? The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." In 1939, Stalin engineered the Soviet-Nazis pact that allowed Hitler to start World War II and Stalin sent troops to conquer half of Poland. Just as Napoleon was not indistinguishable from his human counterpart, Stalin proved to be no different from Hitler. Animal Farm came out in 1943 when the Soviet Union was our ally against Hitler's Germany but Orwell's point was that one dictator was no different than the others. Animal Farm almost was not released due to its criticism of our Soviet ally but Orwell proved to prescient when discussing communism and when in 1956, Khrushchev announced Stalin's crime, he merely proved what Orwell already knew- Stalin was a monster.

1984 was Orwell darkest and most famous book. Winston Smith represented the everyday man as he rebelled against the state. Smith works in the Ministry of Truth and he is working on the tenth edition of Newspeak. Orwell, following up on a theme explored in Animal Farm, believes that the state must be control language to control the population. Newspeak allowsed the state to determine the definition of words and change the meaning of words.

In the era of Big Brother, Freedom is Slavery, War is Peace and Ignorance is Strength. Slogans replace thoughts and two-minute hate fest replace reason against Emmanuel Goldstein, the leader of the opposition against Big Brother.

The other aspect was that the state controls all sexual and marital relations. Marriages were marriages of conveniences and love forbidden. The state wanted to control all aspect of a party member life and emotions as well. As Smith found out in his torture at the end of the book, what the Party wanted nothing more than control and power. Power was the goal and nothng more. There was no pretence about doing good.