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Examples Of Corrupt Government In Animal Farm

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The Epitome of Corrupt Government Oppression is the essential tool in every tyrant’s belt from which he rules. To look the other way, and pretend that nothing happened, leads to power-hungry pigs taking advantage of the surrounding animals. Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, reviews the lives of regular farm animals that decide to overthrow their neglectful and abusive caretaker, Farmer Jones. As the animals embrace the revolution, they establish their own “government”, which is governed by pigs, prominently Napoleon. In the beginning, all animals are considered to be equal and comply with the original principles of their government system Animalism (an allegory for Communism), but as time progresses this philosophy does not stay concurrent. …show more content…

“The pigs now revealed that during the past three months they had taught themselves to read and write …”(23). Limiting the animals’ opportunities early on to gain intelligence and education becomes the key for the pigs to maintain their position of power. The pigs teach themselves to read and write from a children’s book but destroy it before the other animals could have the same chance. This is essential because if the other animals had the ability to learn like the pigs did, the pigs would not have been able to rule in a tyrannical way like they did. Having the advantage of being the only ones that are literate, solidifies the pigs’ status as the elite. Because of this, the pigs used their education and knowledge to do as they wish without any obstacles. “The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the leadership”(27). From the start of the newly founded Animal Farm, the pigs establish their position using words like natural to say that they are the only ones to be fitted for the …show more content…

Some animals, like Benjamin, were capable of reasoning, but did little or nothing to oppose Napoleon. Propaganda was heavily used by the pigs to make the "inferior" animals worship Napoleon and drive the them to work. The song “Beasts of England” is used to build up patriotism for the rebellion but is banned and replaced with a song that worships Napoleon. The pigs also rely on persuasion to keep the animal from questioning them. Squealer, a well articulated pig pushes Napoleon ideas on the other animals and because he is good with words and persuasion all of the animals believe

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Edmund Burke once said, “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse”. George Orwell’s Animal Farm is about the animal's rebellion against their owner. The pigs are the only ones that can read and write. They abuse their abilities to gain power over the animals. Animal Farm shows that there are many ways power will corrupt good intentions, such as Ignorance, Manipulation, and Power Hoarding Behavior.

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From this, the pigs would probably not be able to spread their propaganda and deception resulting in them not having power. Sadly, in the story, this is not the case. Instead, the animals were so uneducated that they could not understand specific things very well. There are a few exceptions but for the most part “None of the other animals on the farm could get further than the letter A” (Orwell 50) resulting in the pigs having an extreme advantage in power due to their education. In our world, if everyone was highly educated then governments would have a hard time controlling and taking advantage of their people.

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Throughout the book the pigs tend to break rules and add loopholes to those rules so they would not be questioned. The animals were stupid enough to not realize that the rules were being changed each time they would refer to them. This shows that the animals don’t realize the change of rules without their opinion and allow it to

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They placed themselves at the top of the hierarchy because they knew the animals would blindly follow their reasoning (science, as Squealer said) and used this to their advantage to get better conditions, in this case, food, for themselves. Another example is when the pigs gave their excuse for not doing any work on the farm- claiming they had their own responsibilities that the other animals were not smart enough to understand. The text says, "There was, as Squealer was never tired of explaining, endless work in the supervision and organization of the farm. Much of this work was of a kind that the other animals were too ignorant

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The quote illustrates how the pigs trick the animals to make them believe they are looking out for their interests. Napoleon wants to give the animals freedom but Squealer's speech says that he would take charge to stop them from making errors. Which is basically just brainwashing them. " No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves.

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The rulers of the farm take advantage of the low reading skills that the rest of the animals possess and use that weakness against them, as the animals just believe whatever the pigs tell them to, as they have no reason not to. The pigs’ goals seem intact and they do

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The pigs claim to be the reason for the animal’s success so they deserve enough rest to keep everything going the smooth and rest from all they did. These things were only possible due to the fact that Napoleon was able to obtain power by giving the animals false hopes and

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The animals are smart enough to know that the pigs are menacing but don’t say anything because they don’t want to risk ‘thoughtcrime’ by expressing their underlying

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The pigs assume complete control and manipulate the other animals into thinking what they want them to. " The work of teaching and organising the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognised as being the cleverest of the animals" (Orwell 10). This showed that all decisions fell upon the pigs, who were deemed smarter than all the other animals. However, towards the end, some animals caught onto the pigs' manipulation of their illiteracy. " A few days later...some of the animals remembered...that the Sixth Commandment decreed 'No animal shall kill any other animal'"(Orwell 54).

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Squealer, an allusion of propaganda, both publicizes and directs the animals to follow the decisions that Napoleon makes. Since the animals listen to and believe what Squealer says, they quit singing Beasts of England. They never get any ideas of rebelling against the pigs, and Napoleon retains the power and

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“Power Corrupts those who process it”. The corruption of power my occur with poor leadership in the government, and the ignorance of its followers. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, an allegorical fable, the author demonstrates the failure of the farm by introducing the misleading of the pigs. In the exposition of the story, the animals revolts against Mr. Jones led by Old Major’s desire to rebel. Since then, he used different methods to gain animals’ rights by using his”unlimited power”.

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Some might say it doesn’t matter that the pigs did not have the same knowledge and experience as the humans, and this could even be a good thing because the pigs were fresh and ready to run the farm with a new order and a new vision of animal-centered structure. This is not true, though, because there are just some skills and information necessary for the smooth running of such a large and complicated thing as a farm. The pigs did not know what they were getting into, and they did not care. Due to this, the farm quickly fell apart, but the pigs, in their ignorance, kept trying to pretend like everything was alright, making the situation even worse. The pigs tried to make themselves appear like good rulers, but with no experience and no idea of how to fairly run a farm, the animals’ lives ended up a lot worse than when they were ruled by

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The other animals observe that “the pigs [do] not actually work, but [direct] and [supervise] the others.” (11). Squealer, Napoleon

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For example, the pigs thought they were more important or inferior to the other animals. At the beginning of the book, the pigs were decided to be the leaders because of their intelligence and their ability to read and write. The pigs wrote seven commandments on the top of the barn and one of them was “All Animals are Equal” page 24. This is important because the seven commandments end up being broken by the leader of the pigs Napoleon. At first,

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In addition, Squealer often threatens the animals that Mr. Jones will return if they did not follow as instructed by Napoleon to manipulate the farm animals. For instance, pigs decided that the milk and windfall as well as the main crops of apples should be reserved for the pigs alone. Ostensibly, pigs need to be in healthy state as they claimed to be the Einstein of the welfare of the farm. Here also, Squealer threatens the animals that Jones would return if they oppose the idea. Therefore, the animals agreed with

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