Corruption In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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The book Animal Farm was written to show the downfall of Soviet Communism using animals. The book shows this through the corruption that the pigs show in their ruling and the brainwashing in their governmental policy of animalism.
Primarily, corruption leads to the failure in the government on Animal Farm. Orwell shows this when the animals come up with the rule "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others"(133). This rule is obviously showing corruption because it doesn’t even make sense. The pigs have put themselves up on a pedestal above every other animal on the farm. This fraudulent government shows the true weaknesses of communism. The ideals of everyone being equal fell into disarray as the pigs had more privileges. Corruption …show more content…

For example, when Boxer gets sick the animals were told he was going to the vet but when the van arrived to pick him up the animals saw that on the side of the van said it was a horse slaughterer. This had the animals all freaking out because they knew Boxer was being taken to be killed. After Boxer was taken Squealer came to the animals and told them "the van had previously been the property of the knacker and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted out the name"(Orwell, 125). This commonly happened when something happened that the animals were suspicious about, Squealer would always tell them something to make them happy with what happened. He would brainwash them to believe anything he said no matter how ridiculous. When government authorities lie to their people it is setting them up for a failed government. Another time the animals were brainwashed to believe something that wasn't true was when the windmill was first destroyed by a windstorm. Napoleon saw it in ruins he cried out "Snowball has done this thing"(Orwell,82). When their leader says it they believe it, even if they thought otherwise first. Lying the animals was easy since they weren't very smart, and the pigs knew that and used it to their advantage. They were lied to and told when anything bad happened, it was Snowball's fault. Brainwashing isn't going to help your government succeed, if anything it's

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