If a ruler or local community member ever became self-serving and corrupt, would anyone ever notice it anymore? The story Animal Farm by George Orwell asks us this with a simple question: if a farm full of animals were to overthrow its human masters, how would they govern themselves, and if so, how? If a ruler or local community member ever became self-serving and corrupt, would anyone ever notice it anymore? Throughout Animal Farm by James Orwell, the author teaches the reader the descent of ruler’s morals and how Rulers, no matter how pious, will become corrupted and self-serving.
The first instance that the author shows the thesis statement is a slow ease of merely bending the rules to get what they want. One such example of this happening in Animal Farm is when the animals at the farm had extra milk that they thought would be dispersed evenly among them. The pigs thought themselves more deserving than the others and put it into their mash. When asked why they had done such a thing, the
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At the very end of the book, one of the animals looks into a dinner where the ruling pigs are having a human as a guest. After some time, they notice that the pigs have become so greedy, self-serving, and corrupt that they can no longer be told apart from the human they so despised and revolted over. “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Orwell pg 54 The evidence provided directly shows how far rulers will go from righteous rulers to corrupt and self-servicing leaders and how it shows the real world how people at the very top no longer care for the people they pretend to serve. This final piece of evidence clearly and definitively shows how Orwell accurately depicts the descent of pious leaders into corrupt and self-serving