The Role Of Leadership In George Orwell's Animal Farm

Animal Farm a story of rebellion and revolution. In the Manor Farm the animals decide that they are going to free themselves from their human owners and control the farm themselves. The pigs proved to be the most clever of the animals of the farm so they assumed the main leadership positions. However, Napoleon and Snowball had completely different ideals on how the farm should be run so they became the main competators for control. In the end, Napoleon's brute force using his attack dogs to chase Snowball

People play an enormous component in our lives and the choices we make. In George Orwell's “ Animal Farm” there are several people that show leadership and guidance. The Leaders of Animal Farm start off with good intentions, but as the story goes on it becomes obvious the leaders have grown power-hungry and have become the 'superior' animals, showing that equality does not exist. This source of power has been used by leaders at the expense of their followers for their own personal gain, like Napoleon, whose first sign of corruption occurred early in the book when he seemed to be the main leader of them all.

Published in England on August 17th 1945 and written by Eric Arthur Blair (also known as George Orwell) between 1943 and 1944, Animal Farm is a novella that takes place and has the same ideologies of the Russian Revolution on an imaginary farm. Major characters such as Napoleon and Boxer the Horse play important roles concerning freedom and equality. Napoleon, considered by most to be the leader of Animal Farm is manipulative and selfish; does not care about others, and does not like to be bothered when it comes to gaining full control. Boxer the Horse, on the other hand, is the strongest yet most gullible of all the animals. He believes everything Napoleon tells him and never questions whether he is losing his freedom or not. This novella argues how a farm, just like a country, can transform for the worst with leaders who do not know how to govern it. Just like Karl Marx once said “The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”

Why did 1917 Russia have flaws with its government and politics so much so that it started a revolution? Within the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, there are many examples of leadership and corruption such as in the Russian revolution. There are many examples within the novel for this theme like the way the pigs deceive the lower animals with their lies is one example of this. How Napoleon persuades the animals in his decisions by abusing the force of the attack dogs. Banning practices from the animals like the song Beasts of England and at the end Napoleon changes a commandment to say that all animals are equal but some are more equal than others.

Snowball and especially Napoleon decide right off that they, they pigs, should lead the rest of the animals in the new world without Jones. The two are already somewhat breaking one of the rules, that all animals are equal. With the pigs in power what does that make the rest of the animals? They are considered inferior to the pigs, this kind of thinking was also seen in Joseph Stalin, the person Napoleon was based on. Old Major and Karl Marx both had several revolutionary ideas but with the wrong people in power the plans do not bring the change the original creators

As a political writer and socialist of the time, Orwell turns the tragedy of the Russian people, whose dreams of a communist utopia were crushed by the Stalin regime, into a message to society. These people of the Russian Revolution were treated just as poorly, if not worse, than before the revolution because of political innocence and an authoritarian government. With his novel, Animal Farm, serving as allegory for the Russian revolution, Orwell warns that any society that gives the leader absolute power is fated to become corrupt and oppressive because of the inevitability of a leader manipulating his power for personal gain. Even revolutions that have the best intentions will ultimately fail if the leaders are not held accountable.

Throughout the book of Animal Farm the theme of leadership and corruption is continuous. The animal’s who have the biggest part in both of these major themes are the pigs. Napoleon, for example, takes over as the leader in the beginning of the book and later his leadership methods turn corruptive.

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

In the beginning of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, two farm hogs named Napoleon and Snowball sought to liberate their fellow animals from oppressive Farmer Jones and create a sovereign nation of, by, and for animals. Much like the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution, Animal Farm soon became a worse place than when Farmer Jones ran the farm. In Animal Farm, Animal Farm went from a communist state, ruled by its inhabitants, to dictatorship, as a metaphor for the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin’s increasingly totalitarian rule.

The pigs begin incorporating the cow’s milk into their food and they claim the right to all the apples. The pigs claim that they need milk and apples and to power their ‘brainwork’ and take advantage of the an12imal’s naivety and become unfair and cruel. Napoleon seems to become the most corrupted and even thinks he is better than the other pigs. Napoleon takes over once Snowball dies, taking lead as a dictator. Napoleon takes over "The Animal Farm" which leads to food shortage, hard labour, and deaths.

Honestly, as I was reading this story I did not fully think of power and authority. I thought about the fight between morals and society. I guess that could be contributed to your questions in a way. As Orwell’s narrator was on his mission he was bombarded with a society that hated him telling him what they felt that he needed to do. They were the power in the situation. Though his position was supposed to hold all authority, nobody would listen to him due to the fact that their power overpowered him. He felt that in order to get on their good side he had to do what they wanted, even though it was against his morals. The colonists had the power because the land that Orwell’s narrator in inhabiting was once theirs, or from what I gathered through

In the story, Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the characters show that although there are other qualities that are needed to be a good leader, intelligence is the primary qualification for leadership. Qualification for leadership should be based on intelligence as well as selflessness and integrity. To be selfless is to be unconcerned for oneself, to have integrity is to be always having a moral purpose to one’s action.

There are countless numbers of great leaders in the human history like Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Che Guevara and Steve Jobs, who are different from each other in the way they demonstrate their leadership skills. The existence of numerous leaderships proves that there is no absolutely perfect leader. Leaders are humans: every leader has its strength and weakness. Each leader has the situation they can fully display its talent; I do not believe Steve Jobs would have succeeded if he had been born in China. To discuss the effectiveness of a leader, we have to be careful with what kinds of leaders are suitable for what kinds of situation.

What could humans discover if animals could talk? George Orwell’s Animal Farm has main characters known as Snowball, Napoleon, Boxer, and Squealer who represent real people, but in the book are interpreted as animals. Animal Farm is a story filled with symbolism which gives information about the Russian Revolution. The effects from the leaders onto the other characters of the book is what influences them to take a stand and rebell. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm the character of Snowball symbolized Leon Trotsky and was shown as a leader, clever as well as assertive.

Power and corruption are and are not the same word. Although they intertwine with each other, they have different meanings and usages; but in the hands of those who do no not know how to use them, they can be the same and usually devastating. When the book was written in the 40’s, the Soviet Union was gaining power and spreading in Europe. Joseph Stalin was the feared leader of the Soviet Union, and there are many similarities between him and the power-hungry pig, Napoleon. In his book, Animal Farm, George Orwell uses complex characters, such as Napoleon and Squealer, to depict what was happening in Russia at the time and how fragile power can cause corruption in little time.