Animal Farm Institutions

Power Corrupts those who Possess it John Dalberg-Acton once said, “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely”, this means that the more power that a person has the more corrupt the person will become. This statement is obviously correct especially if the person with absolute power has tendency towards corruption. The book, “Animal Farm”, by George Orwell, has many examples of how power is gate way to corrupt leaders because they have some tendencies towards corruption. Introduction Power corrupts those that possess it; this is a very important theme in Animal Farm.

Napoleon, who is the leading power in the farm, had complete control of the animal’s minds, being able to convince them that “Snowball [had] done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year” (Orwell 70). Napoleon’s need for complete power was able to be achieved from the trust he had established from the other animals, making them not question him and follow whatever he said.

Throughout the novel “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, Napoleon gained, managed and maintained his power over the animals of the farm. Napoleon gained power over the animals by using force, propaganda, manipulating the animals and sending his opposition into exile. His style of leadership involved using the media to support his decisions, enforcing a variety of new laws and using fear to keep himself in a position of superiority over the other animals. By changing events to his advantage and implementing strategies to signify his importance, Napoleon manages to maintain his power.

He gave them the false inspiration and hope that they were working for to stay free. This is what Hitler did to the Jews who were able to work, he had in his concentration camps say “work to be free”, but in reality he did not have the intention to set them free. The reason as to why the animals did not rebel was for two reasons. One being that they just were not educated at all and the other reason is because Napoleon has an immense amount of fierce dogs around him at all times. This made him an intimidating pig. The animals were oblivious to the corruption around them that he shrugged off a fellow animal dying by another simply because Napoleon said it was fine and the Commandments said that it was exceptional. The dumbest of the animals was a horse named boxer. Because he was the strongest of the farm animals, what he said greatly influenced the others animals, and because he was on the side of Napoleon the other animals followed. There were many times were the animals would have revolted without Boxer present, but after he died, it was too late to turn back. He inspired the animals by constantly saying, “I will work harder”, and, “Napoleon is always right”. This often concluded questions regarding Napoleon’s style of handling business.

Napoleon being another intelligent pig on the farm believed he could become the leader and have all the power on the farm by scaring the animals. He does so by telling the animals they will work more or there will be punishment “Throughout the spring they worked a sixty-hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half” (Orwell 40). “The animals believe what the leadership tells them—that they are working for their own good now, not for Mr. Jones’s—they are eager to take on the extra labor”

Napoleon is a big and fierce looking Berkshire boar, he's the type of animal that gets what he wants in his own way. He is actually smart, smart enough to trap you and make you believe that everything he says is true. Animal Far, doesn't include the part in history where it talks about Lenin's part which is represented in the book as Old Major, then Napoleon is the leader of the farm from the beginning of the revolution just as how Stalin did. Napoleon is the pig that becomes the leader of Animal Farm after the rebellion. Based on Joseph Stalin, Napoleon uses military power to threaten the other animals and strengthen his power. In the book, Napoleon proves to the animals that he isn't truthful more than his companion Snowball. While Stalin was ruling in the (USSR), he was a cruel leader who would get rid of anyone who got in his way, and millions of people that didn't want to work for him were kicked out. Just like Stalin Napoleon used violence for him to keep his ruling position in Animal Farm. A good example would be when Napoleon trains the puppies not for their own education, but to protect him and get rid of anyone who stands in his way and to not have anyone suspect him. After Snowball being expelled, Napoleon killed the puppies and said that they were spies for Snowball," the traitors who had leagued themselves with Snowball" (page 61). Another characteristic of Joseph Stalin that is shown in Napoleon is Napoleons

Throughout the book, Boxer is always the hardest working and is always trying to do his best for Napoleon. Napoleon, seen as the leader of Animal Farm, is never helping to gain what he wants. All he is doing is directing the other animals on what to do. At the beginning of the book, he was not always the leader. Old Major, the leader of the animals, always believed in an ideal way to live on the farm, called Animalism. Animalism was condensed into seven laws, known as the seven commandments. These were created by Napoleon, Snowball and Squealer, the three pigs. At the beginning of the book, Napoleon is trying to gain the other animal’s trust and their loyalty. The other animals were doing the same for him. Throughout the book, Napoleon is slowly taking over the farm and is slowly changing the rules of Animalism. After the expulsion of Snowball, Napoleon takes charge and changes some of the seven

Under Napoleon, the animals have little choice what happens to them. They have to do what he says or hey will just die in that circumstance. The same was true under Jones. To me, which really means that little has changed. Napoleon is also similar to Mr.Jones because he is using the animals work to make comfortable life for himself. He cares mainly about himself and the pigs of course and doesn't care if he's being fair to the other animals. But Napoleon to me is kind of the nice guy the animals get treated fairly well, well taken care of. They get rewarded by Napoleon of extra portions of food after battles or during celebrations. But by living in the house with the pigs Napoleon creates a different kind of way of how he runs things with the animals it's kind of unique and weird a the

All Essays Are Equal, But Some Essays Are More Equal Than Others George Orwell wrote “Animal Farm” not just as a satirical piece but as a cautionary fable against the rise Communism. Through the characters in the novel Orwell portrays historical figures and different conflicts throughout Russian history to further provide evidence toward his main idea. Old Major’s beginning speech pitches the idea that freedom does not mean becoming rich, and with being poor there may come a time where the animals may be oppressed. It is better to be free and poor than free and exploited.

The satirical fiction novel Animal Farm written by George Orwell not only shows what happened during the Russian Revolution but also pokes fun at it. George uses animals on a farm to represent the Russian Revolution because he wants to express his feelings on the rise to power of leaders. Orwell believed that many of the people, who were working, sacrificed so many things just so they could have a leader. In the end there was no leader that stood up for the people and did what was best for everyone. Animal Farm shows in Orwell's perspective everything that happened during the Revolution.

Firstly, Napoleon uses manipulation to generate a cult of personality in the Animal Farm. Napoleon directly shows how he manipulated the animals as he believed “...[weaker] animals on Animal Farm did more work and [would] receive less food than any animals in the country” (92).Napoleon shows how he only cares about himself as he uses the animals. He would make the animals do labour to support himself and to be powerful.The animals would agree to everything that he said because they believed that Napoleon wanted the best for them. Napoleon made the animals believe that they were in better conditions even though “starvation seemed to stare them in the face.” (50). He did a great job to hid the reality from the animals. His thoughts and

Sleeping in a bed, eating the best food, and drinking alcohol are just some of the many things that Napoleon did to support his self-serving character. Although Old Major imagined and longed for a utopian society in Animal Farm, when Napoleon takes the crown, he immediately abuses his power; Animal Farm quickly becomes dystopian as Napoleon leads the animals to oppression. He also instills fear in the animals using the nine guard dogs (KGB) that he took away from their parents; Napoleon uses them to protect himself as well as chase Snowball off the farm. Although the farm welcomed nine sturdy pups into a somewhat thriving farm, their beliefs and main accord quickly change as Napoleon raises them to be the violent, enforcing dogs they

Little do the animals know, Napoleon is changing Animal Farm for the worse. The pigs are now trading with humans, acting like humans, and finally the pigs are walking like humans which results to the sheep now bleating “Four legs good, two legs better” (134). By the end of the book when the animals look into the farm house at the banquet, the animals see no difference between the pigs and the

Ignorance is one of the key factors that led to the totalitarian rule as well as enslavement of the animals on the farm. Education plays a diminutive role during the whole story. The pigs were rewarded with the control over the farm because of the ignorance of the other animals. The animals had decided that “the pigs, who were manifestly cleverer than the other animals, should decided all the questions of farm policy”. (62)

The antagonist of the book ‘Animal Farm’, Napoleon was highly emphasized for his cruel tactics that he upheld against his fellow animals. He tortured and tormented them giving himself the title of a cruel leader. This sense of tyranny is why he resembles Mr.Jones the previous owner of Manor Farm. Similar to Mr.Jones, Napoleon has created a caste system in which he is the “farmer” and the rest of the animals are his “slaves”, he has shown that he only uses the animals for his own monetary gain, and that he uses fear and propaganda to control the rest of the animals. In this essay I will compare and contrast the two individuals.