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The Responsibility Of Pride In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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George Orwell captures many aspects of the Russian Revolution and makes his points clear to understand. Animal Farm not only reminds the reader how cruel humans can be, but how power hungry they are. When people become the leader of a nation, corruption is bound to happen. The feeling of power and pride becomes too much and that is all they can think about. While running a country, mistakes are bound to happen. Some leaders may own up to their mistakes, while others find anyone else to blame. In many cases, one person or group of people are being blamed, while they are completely innocent. Animal Farm remind the reader that pride can make blaming other people incredibly easy. Napoleon is the leader of the farm and is seen as someone who never makes mistakes. Because he is a pig, he is much more intelligent than the other farm animals. With this comes the responsibility of taking care of the farm and making sure everything is running smoothly. Napoleon takes much pride in his accomplishments as the leader of the farm. When …show more content…

Not far after Snowball is ran off of the farm, Napoleon realizes how gullible the farm animals are. Influencing them to do as he wants is a huge part of Napoleon's success on the farm. With this power comes the changing of rules and the blaming of Snowball for all of Napoleon’s mistakes. In the beginning, the changes are subtle and many of the animals never notice, but towards the end the true intentions of the pigs starts to reveal itself, “Their single tenet asserting that some animals are more equal than others is the end of a meaningless absurdity” (Letemendia, 129). In the end of the novel, the other farm animals finally see how absurd the pigs have become. [How do you know the other farm animals finally see the absurdity of the pigs? Do all the farm animals notice this?] Their hunger for power made them the most greedy of

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