Placing Authority In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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Looking back in international history, there is one thing that leads to an ultimatum within a leader or leaders ruling: power. Depending on what they do with their granted authority to create laws, laws and acts may be created for the people’s needs or their own selfish benefit. Every deceased or retired leader carries on a legacy that is to be challenged or benefited by the newest power’s control, rather it be in the democratic society the United States issues, where the people are the main voice of the state and its government, or a polar opposite such as Russia where leaders are solitary and decide what’s best for society within their own judgement and personal views. Placing authority within one person can cause a domino effect to its society. Within Animal Farm written by George Orwell on his standpoint of communism, there is a dream of equal opportunities and work for the animals residing on the farm prior to Major, a …show more content…

Jack was fully aware that Ralph would not leave unless he acted on violence in order to send him away, but that didn't stop Ralph. It boiled down to Piggy’s death by blunt force trauma and a forty foot drop, with Jack shouting at Ralph. Orwell shows just how truly mad with power Jack has become by writing “See? See? That's what you'll get! I meant that! There isn't a tribe for you anymore! The conch is gone—” […] “Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph. The point tore the skin and flesh over Ralph’s ribs, then sheared off and fell in the water. Ralph stumbled,feeling not pain but panic, and the tribe, screaming now like the chief, began to advance. Another spear, a bent one that would not fly straight, went past his face and one fell from on high where Roger was” (Golding,