Power Corrupted In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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All major wars have occurred over the position or want of power. Napoleon Bonaparte, the French conqueror, conquered Europe for the power to rule it. Hitler started up slowly in his political career, and e started World War II, murdering 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. Napoleon in the political rankings of Animal Farm, up to the point which the desire for power corrupted him. Orwell shows how power corrupts a person by turning Napoleon, a good animal, into a monster. In the beginning, after the animals had overthrown Mr. Jones, the farmer who had owned Manor Farm, the animals wondered what to do. A few weeks before, Napoleon the Berkshire boar had shown up at Manor Farm. The first time Orwell introduces Napoleon, he makes him appear