Comparing Orwell And Frank Beddor

The authors George Orwell and Frank Beddor seem to have a similar perspective on society and choose to portray it in their books as well. The books that seem to be sewn with the similar messages are Animal Farm, and The Looking Glass Wars. For Animal Farm, it is an Allegory of the Russian revolution and George Orwell has a bleak and theme of corruption woven in it. Meanwhile, the Looking Glass Wars Author, Frank Beddor, also seems to portray that power corrupts and the surrounding people in a dystopian multiverse. They both agree that power can make people crooked and amoral. George Orwell and Frank Beddor communicate a very similar message in their books, Animal Farm and The Looking Glass Wars, which was the theme that power will corrupt people

In this scene, Dodge and a Card Solide are walking through a Wonderland kingdom, which has been taken over by a totalitarianism-like Queen, Red who has killed the previous owners and put herself as ruler. They are walking through a city which has changed drastically. The Narrator states, “Dodge nodded. He had his own memories: the glittering, quartz-like buildings of Genevieve’s time, the twinkling colors of towers and spires regularly cleaned and polished. Wonderland had been a gleaming, incandescent place, filled for the most part with hardworking, law-respecting citizens. Now everything was covered with grime and soot. Poverty and crime had oozed out of the back alleys and taken over the main streets, and anything bright and luminescent had to hide itself away in the nooks and crannies of the city.” (pg. 140) This statement seems to basically state the message Beddor was sending out. People are can be corrupted by power, not just one whose taken the lead. He was saying that in a time of justice and happiness everything was well and taken care of. The citizens, the buildings and sidewalks, the court and just the kingdom itself. When the Narrator describes the current state the kingdom is in he uses a particular word, “Poverty and crime had oozed out of the back alleys...”. This seems to get a very muddy, slimy, draining, sticky, clingy, and sludgy. It sort of like when you power, a lot things get crooked. It slowly starts out, like poison, innocent , nothing much. And little by little, it gets worse and worse and the time you realize it, it’s usually too far to go back and it’s too late. It is the same thing in animal farm. For Orwell, he decided to do the same thing. The pigs, especially Napoleon when given a chance of more power and took it, looking more and more ways to gain and use it to benefit themselves and no one