Animal Farm is a fable illustrating the inevitable degeneration of revolutionary ideals. According to the novel, this degeneration occurs because

• A.social equality, the goal of such idealism, is actually undersirable
• B.revolutionary ideals are dreamed by blood-thirsty individuals
• C.man's greedy individualistic nature always subverts the realization of ideals
• D.revolutionary ideals are inimical to progress
• E.animals are the wrong characters to illustrate man's weaknesses.