In Chapter 3 of George Orwell's Animal Farm, the pigs begin displaying their sense of power and superiority by hoarding for themselves five buckets of milk and all the windfalls of apples.
Earlier in Chapter 2, after the pigs milk the cows for the first time, the animals are left with five buckets of milk no one is completely sure what to do with. The chickens suggest the milk should be used in all the animals' mash, but Napoleon responds by telling them not to concern themselves with the milk and sending them off to work on the harvest. When the animals return, they find the milk has disappeared.
In the next chapter, the animals learn that the pigs are using the milk in their own mash alone; plus, the pigs are now commanding that all windfalls of apples be brought to them. When the other animals complain, Squealer is sent to explain that they are hoarding the milk and apples for the sake of their own health. He further argues that since the pigs are the brains of the farm, the maintenance of the pigs' brains and health is critical to keep Farmer Jones away:
We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. (Ch 3)
Squealer's speech shows us that the pigs have already placed themselves in a position of superiority. They are proving that they cannot adhere to the seventh commandment that states "[a]ll animals are equal" since they see themselves as mentally superior to all the other animals. Hoarding the apples and the milk foreshadows the pigs' domination and power, led by Napoleon, that is soon to come, a dominance justified by what will become their one remaining commandment: "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS" (Ch. 10).
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