Examples Of Leadership In Animal Farm By George Orwell

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“Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are You, I am I” (Osho). Equality, is being able to stand up for what you believe in and not let anyone tell you otherwise. During the 19th century in Russia, there wasn’t much equality. There was always one ruler and one ruler only. If you didn’t care for the ruler or disbehave against him, you would be sacrificed. Rulers also had to give up their position just so that the “better” ruler would rule. In the text animal farm it was the same way. You have one idea that is well thought out, but the other person didn’t like it so they had to run you out of reign. Animal Farm is based on a farm where there isn’t a farmer present at all …show more content…

The bad leaders ended up being really bad and no one liked it. When tracing my learning throughout this unit, I have come to realize that I used to believe that leadership was having absolute power, but now I think that leadership is earned and that it isn’t all about what one person think. In the book Animal Farm, Orwell demonstrated the lack of equal leadership and how education was key for it. As the book starts, the author introduces Animalism and the Rebellion, and the same thing was happening with the Russian Revolution. These people or animals in the book were both trying to help continue their plans that were made by their previous leaders. In the book, Animal Farm, Napoleon and Snowball, who were both very different in their personalities, took over after Old Major passed away. Snowball was very good at giving speeches and Napoleon was good at convincing the animals that he was always right and everything that was said was his ideas and plans. From the Russian Revolution, Stalin and Trotsky acted very similar. They both had characteristics that made them each unique in the progression of the Revolution. Trotsky was very willing to follow what Marx (the leader who died before the

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