The animal farm
The animal farmGeorge Orwell’s, The Animal Farm, depicts how power can corrupt society. If one person receives too much power, one will most likely lead up to dictatorship. To exemplify this idea, Orwell uses a farm to represent a society and the animals inside to portray the people. Orwell’s use of the pigs and animals are also an analogy that people sometimes act as “mindless pigs”. Orwell makes the reader realize just how bad a society of dictatorship can really be.
The initial theme of the novel is, “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Power, in a sense, is bad because with power, there is responsibility. If one takes advantage of that responsibility, then there will be corruption. Orwell portrays this by permitting the farm animals to nominate the pigs to be in charge of the farm. The pigs left in charge are Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball. Napoleon and Squealer both have evil intentions by turning the dogs after Snowball, in other words, killing him. Napoleon would make the other animals work long hours and give them little portions of food, while he and Squealer would feast on large meals. Napoleon and Squealer took advantage of their role as governor and ate all the food, drank beer, and lived in the owner’s house. However, to the farm animals, they considered these to be the 7 commandments:
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs...
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