What is one theme in animal farm? provide evidence from the text and discuss how it supports your answer

A theme is a main idea or underlying meaning of a literary piece that emerges from the treatment the author gives to a subject.

In Animal Farm there are many themes. One of them, is totalitarianism. The message that Orwell tries to convey throughout the story is that regardless of the type, all totalitarian regimes are fundamentally the same, because they are founded on the oppression of the lower classes and of fthe individual as well.

Napoleon's rise to power is the clearest example of this theme. He and the pigs run Animal Farm claiming that they advocate for animals' rights against evil humans, but the truth is that they will maintain their power by any means necessary, as any other sort of totalitarian regime.

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.

in my opinion i think it was not excessive at all. the maids turned against the queen in his absence, how could he ever trust them again? if he let them go they would surely spread the news of the suitor's deaths, which is much too risky. as for the suitors, they were selfish, rude, and greedy. the god's had apparently marked them for death, meaning odysseus made their death come faster.