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What Is The Abuse Of Power In Animal Farm

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In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, Napoleon, a boar whose lust for power corrupts comradeship, embodies a despotic leader by exploiting the farm’s resources for his benefit and applying excessive force in order to maintain total authority. Animal Farm serves as an allegory to the Russian Revolution in 1917; and like Joseph Stalin, Napoleon exerts full power over his subjects when he takes control the food rations. Despite the rebellion’s aim for equality among all animals, Napoleon supports the decision “that the milk and the windfall apples (and also the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs alone” (Orwell 36). Furthermore, as the productivity on the farm declines, “rations were reduced, except those of

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