In today’s society people put their trust in the government and their laws. The leaders are trusted to make the best choices for the people, and laws are looked at as rules to be followed, but when the government is corrupt and laws are manipulated the people suffer. Animal Farm by George Orwell is about animals that dream of freedom and a better future but end up with a worse leader than before and a corrupt life. While it is true that ignorance and manipulation, led to the farm’s corruption, power hoarding was most influential in the corruption of animal farm.
One factor that led to the corruption of animal farm was ignorance. “Are the seven commandments what they used to be, Benjamin”. Page 118 chapter 10 The animals don’t realize when the rules are being changed because they don’t remember them. “ They were fine upstanding beasts, willing workers and good comrades, but very stupid. None of them proved able to learn the alphabet beyond the letter b.” chapter 10 pg. 113 The animals are uneducated and
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“Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half”. Chapter 6 pg. 54 Napoleon says the work is “voluntary” but there is a consequence if the work is not done. “Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!” chapter 6 pg. 63 They blame everything on snowball even though we're pretty sure he's dead, and the windmill just wasn’t strong enough to withstand the wind. “And finally there was a tremendous baying of dogs and a shrill crowing from the black cockerel, and out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gambolling round him.” chapter 10 pg. 117 Napoleon and the other pigs use the dogs to intimidate the other animals to get what they