How does Animal Farm explore the detrimental effects of the greed for power and control through the use of setting?

This is a
great question. The use of setting is very important in the book for one key reason. 

The idea of a farm connotes equality. A bit of context is important here. The Soviet
Union enforced something called collectivization. The goal was to consolidate individual
landholdings into collective farms. The leadership, namely, Stalin believed that this would
increase food for all. Hence, this form of...