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Corruption In Animal Farm

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IGeorge Orwell’s best selling novel animal farm is based on an allegory from the Russian Revolution. We take a closer look at the variety of themes in the book such as corruption, leadership, lies and deceit and dreams, hopes and plans. In this essay we take a deeper look at how these themes can make people believe in themselves but also how lies and deceit can change and manipulate someones thoughts and beliefs like just what happened on Manor farm. Power, leadership and corruption plays a very big part in the book but also in the Russian Revolution. We see how the pigs keep changing the 7 commandments and the rules to benefit the needs of the pigs and what the plans that they were trying to put into action. For example when the other animals …show more content…

They quickly change the commandment to “no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets”. after this all the commotion dies down. This is one example of how the pigs manipulated the rules to the rules to there benefit. They were just taking advantage of the other animals and how little social skills they had and that how they were blinded by the pigs evil plans because they had engineered them so well. Another is when Napoleon is killing anyone who gets in his way without thinking about the consequences. When he gets pulled up on it, magically the next day the commandment has an addition in it saying “No animal shall kill another without cause”. With the other farm animals not being that bright they all think that is has been there all along but they had just misread it. This just shows how power is able to to corrupt people for there own good and disadvantaging others. Dreams, hopes and plans is a very important theme in the novel animal farm. At the beginning of the book in old majors speech, all the animals just wish for a better life and how “all animals are equal” and life could be fair. The animals make plans to revolt against Farmer Jones and eventually “Overthrow the human race”. This was just …show more content…

In the informative book animal farm, we see how the theme lies and deceit affected the the animals on Manor Farm, but also the Russian Revolution. For example when Boxer was sent of to be slaughtered, all the went into havoc worried not only if they were next to go but the future of Boxer. When squealer opens up the animals and says “Boxer was sent to the vet” the animals feel a peace about the outcome and the majority of the uproar dies down. In reality he was slaughtered at the glue factory. Napoleon is a great example of this theme and how when ever anything goes wrong on the farm, Snowball is the one to blame, and being Napoleon he knows how to persuade an audience, meaning all the animals believe him. In many of his speeches he says “comrades, do you all know who is responsible for this… SNOWBALL”. From then on everyone is turning on Snowball even though he did hardly anything wrong. This book shows perfectly how lies and deceit can used to exploit and manipulate a crowd or a single person. The book Animal farm investigated the allegory of the Russian Revolution and

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