Power Corruption In Animal Farm, Lord Of The Flies, And Julius Caesar

Power Causing Corruption Power can sometimes turn a society upside down. Someone who doesn’t know how to use power or uses power for evil can cause terrible events and destruction. In each of the three books, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, and The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, there was a change in power and leaders who held that power. In each book, when the person of power changed, so did the society and the people in it. They all showed how a person of great power, who is violent, can cause a society and the people in it, to become violent. There is more conflict and violence when an evil person has power. People who have no real power tend to follow the person who is powerful. This causes destruction and chaos when a leader has bad intentions.

They might change because they were leading people on at first and pretending to be a really good person when deep down they aren’t. If they aren’t pretending, they may just realize they can do whatever they want because they have all the power. They can make anything happen which sometimes is not good because they can cause conflicts and corruption in a society. If a person is not careful of what they do with their power, they can change a society in a very drastic or terrible way. In Animal Farm, at first, Napoleon seemed quiet and less competitive for the lead. “Napoleon produced no schemes of his own, but said quietly that Snowball's would come to nothing, and seemed to be biding his time” (Orwell 48). After this, Napoleon showed his vicious dogs to the others, he became evil with the power he gained from his dogs. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Cassius changes Brutus and convinces him to kill Caesar. Brutus would normally not be so evil but power changed him and so did Cassius. “Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interims is like a phantasma or a hideous dream. The genius and the mortal instruments are then in count and the state of men, like to a little kingdom suffers then the nature of an insurrection” (Shakespeare 1.2.63-71). By Brutus gaining power he does things he usually wouldn’t do. He becomes a murderer. In Lord of the Flies, both Jack and Roger changed. Roger helped Jack lead, and they both became very violent. They weren’t like that in the beginning. They seemed angry but never really evil. Power changed them. They started to hurt the boys and cause destruction. “Yet no one made a sound; and as the minutes passed, in the green shade, his feeling of triumph faded. At last he heard a voice--Jack's voice, but hushed. ‘Are you certain?’ The