The Qualities Of A Great Leader In Animal Farm

Intelligence is one of the more important traits related to effective leadership. Theodore Roosevelt possessed intelligence from a young age and this helped to understand the world around him. His thirst for knowledge took him on journeys that exposed him to many experiences. These experiences provided a different perspective about what it means to be a strong leader and what it takes to get people to follow you. He was always well informed and his emotional intelligence helped him to understand and perceive his own emotions and the emotions of others.

Animal Farm, by George Orwell was published in 1945, a crucial time in history because of Stalin’s takeover of the Soviet Union and his exploitation of the centralized communist government. This was in direct contradiction to the expected results of the Russian Revolution. Orwell felt that revolutions fail because the end result is a change of tyrants and not of government. Orwell exemplifies this failure through the goals of the revolution and their failure to meet them, the malfunction of Napoleon and Snowball’s rule together, and Napoleon’s disastrous reign.

Our propaganda poster displays laws or beliefs that occurred in the novel “Animal Farm” in our vision of how they would be portrayed. Both pathos and ethos rhetorical devices are used to inform, persuade, and convince the animals of the farm of what is considered right. The two types of propaganda used include name-calling and the application of fear. The poster includes three scenes or images depicted from the book; an animal hoof stepping on a human hand that held a whip, Napoleon, and one of the guard dogs killing a pig that is intended to be Snowball.

“Book Smart vs. Street Smart”, a phrase that can describe two kinds of people in this world that perfectly fits the present and the past. This statement perfectly describes two great founding members George Washington and Thomas Jefferson there are considered to be as fire and water. There are those who are “Street Smarts” like George Washington who adapts to any situation, and any environment using their experience as a guidepost to light their way to survive. Then there are “Book Smarts” is someone who is intelligent and very well educated academically that expects to achieve something great. The first president and great general were considered to be a leader who had a great presence’s to lead a formally new government and country. The same can be said about Thomas Jefferson as well as fighting for his belief of how a country

The leaders and their use of deceiving contributes to the loss of freedom on Animal Farm. The leaders on the farm can have animals follow or work for him

How does one obtain anything one has ever desired? Rhetorical appeals and persuasion use language to help one get what one wants. The three rhetorical appeals are logos, ethos, and pathos. Logos is the persuasion of an audience through logic and reasoning. Ethos is persuading an audience through the credibility of the author. Finally, pathos is the persuasion of an audience through the emotions of the audience. This paper will focus on how the creative use of language can be used not only for one’s personal gain, but to protect one from deception. This essay will only use evidence from Animal Farm by George Orwell, which is an allegory of Stalin’s rule and based off the events that happened during his rule. Animal Farm is a satirical book about animals taking control over a farm, but Napoleon and the other pigs are the forceful leaders. Napoleon is a pig whose only wishes are to get what he wants. To convince the other animals into doing what the pigs want, the pigs have to use persuasion through logos, ethos, and pathos.

If you have ever been in a room with a person that is supposed to be a leader, but doesn’t even know what that is, then you will relate to this. The pigs are like this because they don’t know what it means to be a good leader, and mess everything up. Unlike the pigs in Animal Farm, George Washington embodies the characteristics of a strong leader because he shows the traits of being honest, being passionate, and not being power hungry.

“Book Smart vs. Street Smart”, a phrase that can describe two kind of people in this world that perfectly fits the present and the past. This statement perfectly describes two great founding members George Washington and Thomas Jefferson there are considered to be as fire and water. There are those who are “Street Smarts” like George Washington who adepts to any situation, and any environment using their experience as a guide post to light their way to survive. Then there is “Book Smarts” is someone who is intelligent and very well educated academically that expects to achieve something great. The first president and great general was considered to be a leader who had a great presence’s to lead a formally new government and country. The same

Leadership In the book, Animal Farm, the pigs are poor leaders because they are controlling, dismissive, and deceptive to the additional animals on the farm. They only care about what happened to them and feel they are better than the other animals on the farm. Unlike the pigs in Animal Farm, George Washington was an impressive leader who had extraordinary leadership skills. George Washington embodies the characteristics of strong leadership because he was honest, respectful, and brave.

An unjust leader holds absolute power and authority over their people, and often wields that power cruelly and or oppressively for self profit. In North Korea, their leader keeps his people monitored at all times, controls what the people can watch and see on the internet, and doesn't allow his people to leave his land. In the novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the leader of the farm is shown as an unjust leader by brainwashing his comrades, enforcing long hard work for small rations, and ruling with fear and violence. To begin with, napoleon is exposed as an unjust leader when he is shown trying to constantly brainwash his comrades even before his time as a leader. For example, Orwell writes,” As soon as they were weaned, Napoleon took

As a growing debate, the question at hand is whether great leaders are born with specific leadership traits, or if one can be taught certain traits over time. According to (Wikipedia.com) the approach of listing leadership qualities, often termed "trait theory of leadership", assumes certain traits or characteristics will tend to lead to effective leadership. I believe that leadership traits such as honest, competent, initiative, inspiring, hardworking, intelligent, and the ability to lead the masses, are some of the leadership traits one should possess. Within this paper, I will examine the overall concept of leadership traits, while observing the traits that were, or can be associated with successful leaders.

The sub theme of power corrupting people is very eminent in animal farm. The leaders on the farm - the pigs, were the brains of the farm. The animals let the pigs lead the farm, thereby placing them into a position of power. This power corrupted them as they became more and more greedy and their ideology became more and more corrupted. Also, the pig’s transgressions of the rules of animalism worsen as they grow in power.

A leader carries himself with high self-esteem giving out intelligent and well thought out answers and making the right decisions when needed this increases his reputation and subsequently transfers to his supporters who are at ease to know they have put their faith in the right leader (Northouse 2004 P.19) said that although it is important for a leader to be intelligent it is also important that he and his supporters are moving in the right direction together. Leaders who are very smart may have difficulties relating their ideas to their supporters this can lead to disagreements in the organisation. A leader has to understand what is required of him and how he can give effective leadership to his followers.

Another example of the theme of leadership in the book Animal Farm is in the paragraph that states, "Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure. On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?" This goes along with the theme of leadership because it shows how the pigs were trying to get the other animals to accept them as the leader. Becoming the leader of the farm was so important to the pigs but it was most important to Napoleon. He wanted to be in control of everything so badly. Eventually Napoleon’s controlling ways lead to corruption.

What does it take to be a leader, honor or triumph at all cost? Leaders who step on that thin red path, where no misstep is allowed, path that only ends when their legs fail to support them and their followers give up sight, a path where sadness goes along with pain, and where glory is the color of blood, Leaders know this narrow path goes but one way, a way covered with enemies and brothers. What is leadership? A leader who leads his warriors into the hands of death for his name and glory, or a leader who leads his brothers into the greater good for their nation? Leadership is defined as a person who leads a group of people but the real question is how.