Corruption In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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In animal farm george orwell discusses power and how it corrupts. He says that corruption ruins leadership.
Corruption causes people to change like when the pigs changed from 2 legs bad too 2 legs better. Corruption causes people to change the rules in their favor like when the pigs changed the rules so they got all milk and apples. My theme for George world Animal Farm was Leadership and corruption. “Mr Jones of major for no hat locked the hen house for the house for the night but was too drunk remember to shut the door”. Mr. Jones, a drunk, he is in charge of major farm possible thank being in a position of power go to his head and possibly is not up for the job. This matters because sometimes leadership can bred corruption when you don’t abide by the rules. …show more content…

“The milf commander cried napoleon placing himself in front of the buckets that will be attended too” The pigs, mainly napoleon are taking advantage of the other animals. Napoleon is being greedy. All the other animals aren’t even getting close to the same amount of food as the pigs because the pigs are greedy and making excuses why they need all the food. The pigs leadership is so corrupt that there barley feeding the fellow comrades. The animals are supposed to be treated equal but the pigs aren’t treating the other animals the same as they treat the other pigs.
The corruption in Animal Farm gets worse each chapter, the pigs start to slowing become more corrupt. “Mollie refused to learn any but six letter witch spelt her name. She would form these very neatly out of pieces of twigs, would then decorate them with a flower or two and walk around them admiring them.” Mollie didn’t want to cave it to becoming literate and wanted to stick to her roots as and animal. She only wanted to know the six letters that spelt her name which is very

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