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Abuse Of Power In Animal Farm By George Orwell

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“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell using the form of animals to reenact the Russian Revolution. Throughout the story there are many different animals that represent actual people in the Revolution. The whole book is based on power and control. Power on Animal Farm was greatly abused and controlled by fear. In the beginning of the book Mr. Jones was in charge of the farm and he greatly misused his power. For example in chapter one it stated that “ His men were idle and dishonest, the fields were full of weeds, the buildings wanted roofinging, the hedges were neglected and the animals were underfed” (Orwell 15). That quote shows the readers that Mr. Jones really didn't have control …show more content…

At first, Napoleon was a great leader, all the other animals were overjoyed to have Mr. Jones gone, but then after a while he started to act better than everyone and that seemed unfair. For instance, in chapter nine the author states “Once again all rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and the dogs”(Orwell 84). As a leader you are supposed to be fair to everyone and that is what animalism is all about, all animals are equal. It doesn't sound as if all animals are equal when everyone's food portions are cut in half except for the pigs and the dogs. To demonstrate another abuse of power by Napoleon, as Boxer was going to the vet to heal his hoof, when he was getting loaded in the van in chapter ten the author stated “Some of the animals had noticed that the van which took Boxer away was marked as “horse slaughterer” and had actually jumped to the conclusion that Boxer was being sent to the knackers”(Orwell 43). This was an abuse of power by Napoleon, Boxer was one of the hardest workers on the farm and he should have retired, not been sent to the knackers so that Napoleon could claim the money and buy whiskey with it. Buying whiskey was also against the commandments, for animals were not allowed to drink alcohol. Napoleon's power on the farm was abused greatly by becoming selfish and greedy and also forgetting the reason for the rebellion in the first

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Whenever the other animals start to doubt Napoleon, Boxer reassures them that “If comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right” (Orwell 82). Boxer and the other animals on the farm get mistreated in many ways such as, Napoleon takes away their food rations while the pigs and dogs get a large amounts of food and better living conditions. If Boxer wasn't on the farm the book would be different in many ways because the animals would have probably turned against Napoleon by now. The animals wouldn't have anyone to look up to or have to encourage

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Well with all jokes aside, the animals are certainly not free under Napoleon’s rule. For one thing, the animals did not have to work as hard or as much under the Jones. In the act of Napoleon becoming more like ruler than helping everyone out ( kind of like Snowball). The animals are manipulated to work harder

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do you not see what is written on the side of that van... They are taking Boxer to the knacker’s” (Chapter 9). This is when Napoleon decides to lie to all of the animals and kill one of their strongest friends/workers. Napoleon doesn’t have a reason for this, he just does because he can.

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Well the defendant claimed they were so called “traitors”,which in his book means they don’t follow his each and every command. His dogs which he had taken from their mother and raised them to be his own personal killing machines, attacked Boxer and four pigs that had questioned Napoleon. The pigs are bloodied, but luckily Boxer had repealed the attack at the time. After seeing how strong Boxer was Napoleon stopped the attack then commands the pigs to ‘confess”. They confess,and the dogs kill them as traitors to Animal Farm.

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Because of his greed, he changed the ideas and rules of Animalism for his need, so that he doesn’t have to follow the original rules. At this point, he is becoming more and more corrupted, and is blinded by power, causing him to completely change Animalism. Boxer’s death can also be seen as Animal Farm’s downfall, as his death reveals Napoleon’s greed and his act of completely destroying Animalism. Towards the end of the novella, animals got even smaller rations of food than they did under Jones’ rule before, and this pessimistic ending of the animals working like slaves under the tyranny of the pigs shows one of the lesson that

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Boxer genuinely thought that the pigs wanted the best for the farm, so he would blindly follow them,he says quote,”Napoleon is always right”. At some points Boxer knew that something was wrong and that the other animals on the farm didn’t like Napoleon but he wanted to think the best of him. Boxer said, “If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.” Boxer ultimately dies for the farm and says quote, “Forward, Comrades! … Forward in the name of the Rebellion.”

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And it’s getting worse when he selled boxer to a slaughterer to have money for buying more alcohol, even if all of the barley is already reserve to the pigs. He begin to act like a human, meet them, smoke, drink alcohol and wear clothes. To show that all of the goal of the first rebellion never continue that way, they change the song Beast of England and the name of the farm for “Manor farm”. Napoleon didn’t do what the revolution had wanted. The animals follow him, respect him even if they didn’t have to.

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