The Prevalence of Humanity

Power can have the persuasive action in undoing the moral ethics of one’s character. This can be seen throughout history, such as World War II and proven by the actions of Napoleon in the allegory, Animal Farm, by George Orwell. As Lord Acton said “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In history what was viewed as a villain or wrong doer is never the same as the perception. A leader does not begin wanting to do wrong, they start with the best intentions, but power is a tricky thing, showcased in Animal Farm as Utopian ideals but with failed practices.

Throughout time people have always had different ranges of power. The effect of this power is that some people lose control and allow power to corrupt them. Some prime examples of how power corrupts can be seen through the following people: Brutus in the play The tragedy of Julius Caesar, Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician from the Holocaust, and North Korea's political leader, Kim Jong Un. These three people have either let power corrupt them even more then they have already been corrupted, or they have allowed power to completely change their character, and corrupt them into being someone they are not.

Throughout time there were a lot of people in leadership positions, and corruption is not uncommon. In many occasions, the leaders wanted more power, and the strive for it eventually developed into corruption. In George Orwell’s story, Animal Farm, the pigs are seen as the smartest of the animals, and therefore they became the leaders. One pig, Napoleon, did not like how the farm was being run, so he took over through the use of force. After he became the leader of the farm, he continued to try and gain more power and influence over the other animals. In Animal Farm, George Orwell asserts the idea that absolute power results in corruption. Napoleon and the other pigs, interested in remaining superior, persuade the animals by using intimidation and emotional appeals in order to keep control of the gullible animals.

George Orwell, in Animal Farm, addresses blind conformity and misuse of power. There are many comparisons between Animal Farm and Germany under Hitler’s tyranny concerning these two themes. Napoleon and Hitler both used propaganda to ensure there was blind conformity amongst the common people/animals and they both misused their power. The two themes of blind conformity and misuse of power are constantly repeated throughout the novel and will be studied throughout this essay.

To conclude, Adolf Hitler has successfully proven Golding’s theme. Regardless of the political system, humanity's corruption will eventually bring the fall of society. However, this effect can be delayed. By employing a political system that suppresses the effect of one person’s will over an entire civilization, regardless of the malevolence or benevolence of the individual, Golding’s prediction for society will not come true in the near

What is the Human Condition? The Human Condition are characteristics in life in which one will experience at one moment or more in their life. The real question is, however, do you experience the Human Condition even if you’re not conscious of it? In order to be considered “human”, one must experience one of the characteristics of life. Conversely, there is Nihilism. Nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles, believing that life is meaningless. The idea of Nihilism goes against what the Human Condition stands for. Even without being conscious of it, people go through at least one if not all characteristics of the Human Condition.

The book, “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, is about a society of animals who run out the owner and run the farm. There are many different types of leaders in a society, a specific type, a tyrant. A briefing of what happened in “Animal Farm” is that the animals on the farm wanted freedom, humans forgot to feed the animals, animals broke into the food storage, humans came and whipped them, the animals ended up driving the humans out of the farm. The pigs then take leadership, but then they ran out a pig named Snowball off the farm. The pig who becomes fully in charge is Napoleon. These next examples will explain why having too much power is dangerous for the society. The first example comes from the book, where Napoleon kills the animals who

In the novels, Animal Farm and 1984 written by George Orwell, the totalitarian leaders take over their societies. Napoleon, the leader in Animal Farm, takes his control to an extreme by changing the ways of the farm to benefit himself. Big Brother, the leader in 1984, maintains complete control by changing history and watching his citizens every move and thought. Although Napoleon and Big Brother illustrate an intense hold in their totalitarian rule, Napoleon uses manipulation and control whereas Big Brother flourishes by obtaining trust and love from his citizens.

John Steinbeck once said “ Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power”. John Steinbeck elaborates that power itself does not corrupt, but the fear of losing power corrupts the people into dictators, that leads people doing anything to prevent them losing power. This quote parallels to Orwell’s visions that loss of power in the form of fear, lead Napoleon to become a ruthless dictator while possessing absolute power. Therefore, similar to power being corrupt under the rule of Tsar Nicholas II, Adolf Hitler’s and under Joseph Stalin’s through the work of Animal Farm.

In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, the animals in a farm start a revolution against Jones, the farm owner, since they felt that they have a lack of freedom. When the animals take over the farm, they began to create their own society with the seven commandments and Napoleon and Snowball as their leaders. However, Snowball was kicked out of Animal Farm by Napoleon and Animal Farm ran into some problem like when the windmill broke for the 2nd time. As a result, many animals on the farm died. This shows that power can easily be corrupted, because of the selfishness of Napoleon, the benefits the pigs have over all the other animals, and the amount of rights given to the other animals by Napoleon.

Another major similarity between Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm is the way the societies are being run. In Animal Farm, the farm, run by Napoleon, is a totalitarian society. As stated by Old Major, “Remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.”(Orwell ) This quote shows a totalitarian society that separates the

Since the beginning of the human race, the ocean has been a major source of food. People near the shores have been taking of advantage of the ocean’s rich and diverse source of nourishment for centuries, both as a source of food and a livelihood. However, since the dawn of the industrial age, humans have begun to take from the ocean more that it can give. As a result, the ocean can no longer provide the human race with the abundance that it once did. As technology rapidly advances, populations skyrocket, and global warming spreads havoc, the ocean’s biodiversity and once abundant supply of fish is dwindling, calling marine scientists and experts to race to find solutions that will restore the oceans health while battling world hunger.

From the genesis of the human race, to the present human beings have been trying to find a sense of unity (disalienation) amongst their counterparts, but power struggles and social stratification have made this a never ending attempt. Karl Marx and Alexis Tocqueville have given the reader an insight into ‘alienation’ through the course of their historic analyses. Emancipation, though described as the “act of liberation from social, political and legal systems” (Merriam-Webster) has become subjective in nature, as society is controlled by power struggles, class divisions, followed by a contrasting want to create an egalitarian environment. This position paper seeks to answer the overbearing question, “Is the human race really free from alienation in the form of labor, family, power relations and most importantly the right to free freely?” through a comparative framework developed on the exemplary works of Marx and Tocqueville.

Humanity is a part of everyday life, but what if your humanity was lost? All throughout the human existence, there has been humanity. In the time period of humanity, humanity was put to the test. Mass genocides, cruel leaders, world wars, and many more have shown humanity at its lowest. It shows how humanity is completely destroyed in times of injustice and war. Surviving Hitler, by Andrea Warren and The Diary of Anne Frank by Goodrich and Hackett show how the Nazi party dehumanized all Europeans that opposed the Nazi party and how they destroyed their humanity in the process.

The human race as a result of its dynamism, roots, ability to adapt, acute intelligence, amongst other characteristics possessed, is undoubtedly the most unique of all earthly existence. One of it’s amazing characteristics is the peculiarities common to a group of people occupying a particular territorial area; races as they are popularly referred to as. Individuals belonging to each of these races are known to possess similar physical features such as skin color, body proportions, hair structure amongst others. Members of the Caucasian ethnicity are known to possess light skin, straight or wavy light or dark brown hair, gray, gray-green, hazel and wide open blue eyes, moderately developed chin, a narrow protruding nose, thin lips and facial hair for men; Mongoloids possess a yellow or yellow-brown skin, dark straight hair, broad faces, narrow and slightly slanted brown eyes with a fold of the upper eyelid in the inner corner of the eye (epicanthus), flat and rather broad nose, and sparse vegetation on the face and body while Negroids on the other hand are usually dark-skinned possessing curly dark hair, broad noses, brown or black eyes with sparse vegetation on the face and body. Popular explanation by some scientists claim that racial features peculiar to a particular race are as a result of our independent origin from different ancestors in different places. Others