Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Power itself I know is not always a good thing. In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm you would be easily be able to pick out reasons why this is. Power Power is corruption itself, I will elaborate to you a few reasons in detail to establish that "power corrupts”.
Power corrupts, It is anything but difficult to see that this statement is factual. I believe power corrupts. “The pigs didn’t actually work but instead they supervised” (Ch3 Pg2) The pigs were complaining and saying “Supervising is a dreadful job”.
Firstly having done research I have discovered that there are two forms of power socialized power is power used to benefit others. The other form of power is called personalized power, and it is using power for personal gain. Importantly, these two forms of power are not similar in any way. A negative side about personalized power is the more power a leader possesses, the more they focus on their own desires and the less able they are to see others ' perspectives, in other words “selfishness”.
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Jones got drunk and was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side. We don 't know if Mr. Jones became a drunk before or after becoming the leader of the farm, but we definitely get the idea that he 's not up to his job knowing he had power and he would easily get away with it. This supports my statement because……………………………..
Napoleon from the novel Animal farm, he changed the commandments, so that he wasn 't breaking them. He also didn 't do it himself, he had Squealer do it for him. He thought that since he was the leader, he doesn 't have to do anything for himself. This clearly describes why and how power