Greed In George Orwell's Animal Farm

Imagine yourself rising in power and subconsciously growing in greed, where desires to achieve goals through absolute power gradually leads to its abuse and guides society into corruption. The allegorical novel, Animal Farm written by George Orwell represents a hidden message of greed, power, and how an individual that has the ability to control others at their command will escalate to a great extent to maintain power in any circumstances. In history, this can be seen through the Russian Revolution in 1917, where as an overall result, dictators with greed and absolute power remained in control. Therefore, greed and power together will lead a society into corruption. In the Russian Revolution and in Animal Farm, before the greed was ever involved,

In the novel, the pigs capable of reading and writing wrote down Seven Commandments to be followed by all animals to set a standard of equal expectations. But the power grew among the pigs, especially between Snowball and Napoleon as they influence the animals even more. The two began to have controversies over the construction of the windmill. As tension grew, Napoleon released his dogs to chase Snowball away from the farm by force to gain complete control of the farm (Animal Farm, Ch.5). It then became very noticeable that Napoleon had grown in greed and began to use corrupted force against those who opposed him to remain in power, proving to be no better than Mr.

Indeed, Animal Farm mentioned about the manipulated animals revering their leaders and trusting them with the blind allegiance (Animal Farm, Ch.6). Those inability to detect corruption during emergency led to the further abuse of power by leaders and into the corruption of society. However, the story revolves around the corrupted leaders like Napoleon and his allies, where all the other animals just responded to their act of dictatorship. Therefore, the main focus lies on leaders’ greed and corruption, which reflected the real life example of Russian Revolution in