Animal Farm Leadership and Corruption
The Russian Revolution was a very big part of the Russian history and . The novel includes many examples of how power leads to corruption and ruins people. This has been shown many times throughout history. Animal Farm by George Orwell, the pigs take power too far and use it and the animals to their advantage. Orwell displays how power and leadership can generate corruption in our world.
The pigs took the luxuries like apples, milk, and the house with their power. This power and ability to confiscate the goods from the animals corrupted the pigs. They began taking away products and items away from the animals such as the milk and eggs for unnecessary reasons. Napoleon stated, “ It is for your sake
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Napoleon did no work except give orders for the other animals to do the work. “Nevertheless, towards the end of January it became obvious that it would be necessary to procure some more grain from somewhere. In these days Napoleon rarely appeared in public, but spent all his time in the farmhouse, which was guarded at each door by fierce-looking dogs. When he did emerge, it was in a ceremonial manner, with an escort of six dogs who closely surrounded him and growled if anyone came too near. Frequently he did not even appear on Sunday mornings, but issued his orders through one of the other pigs, usually Squealer,” (Jones 75). Napoleon scarcely was seen in public at all through the end of the novel. He ordered his followers to do the work on the farm without him contributing any work himself. In the beginning everybody contributed work with the pigs doing very little of it. Corruption fortified in Napoleon's mind and grew larger every day until him and the other pigs did not contribute any help to the good of the farm. Another example of the authorities like the pigs doing no work and being corrupt is a quote from narrator talking about Mr. Whymper inspecting the farm saying, Today he and his friends had visited Animal Farm and inspected every inch of it with their own eyes, and what did they find? Not only the most up-to-date methods, but a discipline and an orderliness which should be an example to all farmers everywhere. He believed that he was right in saying that the lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the county,” (Jones 137). Napoleon specifically set the farm up so that he can do no work and profit from it the most. Also, so that the animals who do the work get the least amount of profit. This corruption built up from the beginning and got worse as time went
Abraham Lincoln once said, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ("Abraham Lincoln Quote"). Lord Acton also said, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” (“Lord Acton Quotes”). Both of the quotes show that power is not always a good thing, and can sometimes make good people, do bad things. Animal Farm by George Orwell is a novella about animals rebelling against humans on a farm in England. The novella has been said to be directly related to the Russian Revolution of the early 20th century. Immediately after the animals gained power, the pigs took over as the leaders of the animals. The pigs became corrupt with the power, and may have made conditions worse than they were with humans
In order to secure a life of luxury for he and his fellow pigs, Napoleon, along with Squealer as his spokesman, uses language that intimidates, language that distorts the truth, and language that appeals to the emotions of the others to manipulate the gullible animals of Animal Farm. Napoleon's life of luxury included the milk, human beds, alcohol, money, a par education, and the surrounding of his fellow pigs to emotionally and physically stabilize him. However it tampered with a more crucial goal, which was the goal for the equivalent animals lesser than him to prosper equally with him as well. His abuse of his absolute power by ordering his guard dogs to drive his adversary out of competition, and his tactics to silence the animals from rebelling again made his leadership corrupt, and the entire existence of the post-rebellion corrupt as well.
...d have his rations reduced by half” (Page 40). Here, Napoleon’s forces the animals to work and controls them while hiding behind the façade of the fact that the work is voluntary. Thus, Napoleon does not set himself as a target for the animals and, hence the animals do not aim for him or try to revolt. Overall, Napoleon’s use of coercive power allows him to exercise control over the society of Animal Farm.
By looking at and comparing characters from the book and people from the past, George Orwell, the author of Animal Farm, shows that if one takes too much power, they will be removed from their position and the same thing will happen to the next one. In the Russian Civil War, many lives were taken away like in Animal Farm just because people tried to overthrow Mr. Jones and Czar Nicholas.
Under Napoleon’s leadership the animal’s condition never improved. He and the remaining pigs became more and more like humans. At the e...
Throughout the story, the first signal that illustrates the corruption in pigs started right after the animals chased away Mr. Jones. When the animals milked the cows and discussed about what to do with all the milk, Napoleon cried “Never mind the milk, comrades…placing himself in front of the buckets” (p18) and then all buckets of milk disappeared. This is foreshadowing that later Napoleon may become the kind of leader who keeps everything good for himself and does not care about others, and this actually happened later. Several days later, someone found out that all the milk was mixed in pigs’ mash everyday as well as the apples and pointed that pigs broke the rule of “All animals are equal” (p17).
From then on, Napoleon had complete control over the farm. Anyone who went against him would no doubt feel the wrath of his army of dogs. Eventually, Napoleon went so far as to change the ...
During 1917, Russia underwent one of the most famous revolutions in history; with the sole intention to improve the nation. However, the original plan for the revolution was quickly put aside as the new leaders began to abuse their power; this brought on more than two years of slaughter and economic decrease. Within the text Animal Farm, George Orwell portrays the working class animals as naïve, while also having a lack of personal awareness; the pigs, however, were corrupted and manipulative. The pig’s hypocrisy against their own rules and ideas lead them to become the farms most powerful figure. Nevertheless, none of this would have been possible without the animals constantly turning a blind eye and failing to acknowledge when they were
...their greedy eyes they saw no reason to save the other farm animals. The book gives as little evidence of any pig showing protest to Napoleon’s actions except of course Snowball and the other three executed pigs.
Napoleon was a leader who led with an iron fist. A fist he used to secretly abuse his fellow animal. He began by raising several ferocious dogs to aid him in enforcing his rules, laws, and expectations. Using them, he abruptly ended Snowballs reign by using the dogs to exile him from the farm. Shortly after, he halted the construction of the windmill. More often than not he would cleverly work his way around the seven commandments by altering them to his pleasure. For example, 'Now animal shall drink alcohol to excess.'; Or 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.'; Napoleon grounded the rations of each and every animal. The farm slowly fell into a dark abyss with every wretched move Napoleon made.
Imagine a life where a person had no say in things, where life was in full throttle. In the book Animal Farm written by George Orwell, he saw how the Russian revolution was a dark and impactful period of our time. Orwell made power stand out in his book, he saw how power was misused during the Russian revolution. George Orwell took his knowledge of the Russian Revolution and broke it down with farm animals to get the point across easier, he gave us a look at what life was probably like back in the time.
As it rolls down that hill, it picks up more snow and slowly gets bigger and bigger, to the point of where no one else can stop it from rolling down. This is what Napoleon started. To begin with, Napoleon created the snowball (i.e. corruption) on Animal Farm by taking the puppies, ”As soon as they were weaned, Napoleon took them away from their mothers, saying that he would make himself responsible for their education”(pg 35). This started the corruption because he lied about his purposes for the puppies. He said he would educate them in the ways of Animalism from birth.
Without the rural setting of this farm, Napoleon would not have been able get the power he so desperately wanted through this revolt. The revolt would not have occurred if this novel had been set in an urban area or city, which in result would stop Napoleon from leading this group of confused animals and gaining his overwhelming power over them. Napoleon was only happy looking over and down at the less intelligent animals. If he was some how forced to be on the same level as the other animals, who knows what would have come of him.
The animal are got treated the same as they were with Mr.Jones when with Napoleon because Mr.Jones under fed the animal overworked them sold what they did, like Mr.Jones napoleon except worse because the animals had to work the field they had to do what the humans did and build a windmill so all there hard earned work all the food they planted went to the pigs and the pigs would sell it and kept the money to himself they also got fed the same as they did with Mr.Jones. Napoleon and Mr. jones were both tyrants.
They were shaken and miserable. They did not know which was more shocking- the treachery of the animals who had leagued themselves with snowball, or the cruel retribution they had just witnessed,” (93). None of the animals of the farm would have ever thought that one of their own would do such a thing. Napoleon started off as an innocent animal who wanted to fight for the equality and rights the animals deserved, but somewhere along the way, he gets carried away with the power, and becomes selfish. The remaining pigs become exactly like the humans who had once been their enemies.