Animal Farm Theme of Power: Control over the Intellectually Inferior

In Animal Farm, the pigs take power after the Rebellion because they claim that they are the most intelligent animals on the farm. Yet it soon becomes clear that intelligence and good intentions need not go hand in hand. The pigs are reliant on the ignorance of the other animals, and their inability to see how the principles of Animalism are becoming corrupted. To the extent that the animals don’t question the pigs, they become complicit (partly guilty) in the corruption of their ideals.

1. You might be thinking what we're thinking, namely that the sheep are completely useless. And you might be right. But at the end of the day, do we actually need these less intellectual workers to support everyone else?
2. While the sheep are extraordinarily inept, do they also have a certain power? You know, the kind of power that only a numerous group of brainwashed and brainwashing individuals can have?

While the pigs' manipulation of the sheep is overly-exaggerated, it illustrates the ways in which Napoleon control the rest of the animals on the farm.