Some critics believe that at the end of Animal Farm, Orwell suggests that the pigs and human political leaders are interchangeable. Discuss your...

The ending (as the pigs
become human), to my reading, suggests that the difference between the animals and humans was
never a difference of kind but instead a difference of degree. 

The animals
are animals only to the extent that they exhibit solidarity with one another, act with political
and personal integrity, and do actual work. 

Humans, in , are representative
of the corruption that characterizes those in power who are removed from service, from labor,
and from the interests of the "masses".