Corruption Depicted In Animal Farm And Star Wars

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” In Animal Farm, George Orwell depicts the Russian Revolution in the form of animals in order to address the topic of corruption. This symbolic novel can be compared to the 2005 science-fiction movie, Star Wars- Episode III. Although they involve different places and characters, Orwell’s work and Star Wars both remind us that power leads to corruption. In Animal Farm, we see how the rise to power corrupts the pigs and turns them into the oppressors that they rebelled against in the first place. For example, Orwell describes the pigs tampering with one of the original commandments: “Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint-brush, and an overturned pot of white paint” (Orwell 75). In addition, Orwell ends the book with an ominous statement: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which” (Orwell 97). This shows how the pigs have been transformed into humans, the animals’ enemy. In the first

For instance, when Anakin Skywalker became a jedi, he gained more power and turned to the dark side as result. Furthermore, Obi-Wan Kenobi says to Anakin, “You have allowed this dark lord to twist your mind, until now... until now you've become the very thing you swore to destroy” (Star Wars-Episode III). This shows that as Anakin completed his training to become a jedi, he was persuaded that turning to the dark side would give him more power. Once he got a taste of this power, corruption followed. Obi-Wan Kenobi describes in the second quote that Anakin has become what he is supposed to destroy, and Anakin denies it. These examples from Star Wars both show that power will eventually lead to