Animal Farm Tyrant

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“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” -Lord Action. In George Orwell’s book, Animal Farm, the animals get rid of their human tyrant, Mr. Jones the farmer, and create an animal-run farm. The farm slowly becomes more and more corrupt until they have yet another tyrant, this time one of the pigs, Napoleon. While Napoleon was the tyrant of the farm, Squealer the pig is to blame for the downfall of the animal farm because he is manipulative, and he only cares about himself. Throughout the book, Squealer manipulates the animals. After Snowball gets run out by the dogs while debating about building the windmill and Napoleon gets rid of the Sunday Meetings and debates, the other pigs start to argue and question his ruling. …show more content…

You do not appreciate, comrade, the mighty thing that we have done” (Orwell 105). This demonstrates how Squealer only cares about his own wellbeing, and not that of the animals. They lost the windmill, and some animals in the battle, yet Squealer is not phased and continues to encourage the animals to work. If Squealer had not convinced the others that this was a victory, morals on the farm would be down, and they might not have even gone along with the pig rules anymore. Although Squealer could have gotten in trouble with the dogs or Napoleon, that does not excuse the fact that there were many opportunities for Squealer to help the animals, or show them some kind of respect. However, he never took the chance and instead overlooked the animals. In conclusion, Squealer had chances to help the animals, but he chose not to and only helped himself. It may seem that Napoleon is to blame for the downfall of Animal Farm; however, the truth is that no animal would have followed him if it wasn’t for Squealers lies. After Napoleon uses the dogs to execute some of the animals, he gets rid of the Beast of England song to make sure no animal tries to rebel against …show more content…

The book states, “Napoleon stood sternly surveying his audience; then he uttered a high pitched whimper. Immediately the dogs bounded forward, seized four of the pigs by the ear and dragged them, squealing with pain and terror, to Napoleon’s feet” (Orwell 82). This decision shows how Napoleon wanted the animals to be too scared to rebel, therefore giving him more power over the farm. Although Napoleon's greed for power caused him to make poor decisions and hurt the farm, the real threat to the farm was Squealer's manipulation. If the animals hadn’t been manipulated by him, they would have been able to clearly see the inequality on the farm. Later after the animals had recovered from the executions, they started singing the Beasts of England, the song Old Major had introduced to them at the time of the rebellion against Mr. Jones. Soon after, Squealer comes around and reports, “Beasts of England was the song of the rebellion”. But the Rebellion is now complete. The execution of the traitors this afternoon was the final act. The enemy, both external and internal, has been defeated. In Beasts of England we expressed our longing for a better society in days to

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