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Power In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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Power is important to a lot of people. Sometimes power can be good or it can be bad. In the book Animal Farm the pigs have all the power. Or at least they think they do. As we take a journey through this paper we will see just how corrupt the pigs really are with the power. At the beginning of the book their were two pigs who wanted to be leader. They were Snowball and Napoleon. Only one got to be the leader though and Napoleon got it. Snowball and Napoleon didn’t like each other. With the power that Napoleon got with being the leader he thought that he could be in charge of all the animals. Unfortunately he did end up tell the other animals what to do. As the book continues the pigs thought that they could should get more food …show more content…

They didn’t want to do any of the work. They let all the other animals do the work and they would boss them around. They did this because Napoleon was a pig and they thought that because he was a leader with power that they didn’t have to do any of the work. This wasn’t fair to the other animals. Throughout the book the pigs job was to “boss” the other animals around. They once put the sheep in a pasture to clean it up. They left the sheep there for awhile and they had them out there working until it was dark. They would also tell the other animals to do other chores around the farm. Part of them telling the other animals what to do was from Napoleon tell the pigs what to do. This continued throughout the rest of the book. With Napoleon being the most powerful animal on the farm power also corrupts him. It affects him because he had mentioned all animals on the farm being treated equal but he doesn’t run the farm that way. Not all the animals are treated the same and the because of this the pigs get more “freedom’’ from Napoleon. His power also corrupts him because eventually the animals start to turn on him. For example Snowball knocked down the windmill and few times which led to Napoleon wanting to kill him. There was a time when the other animals on the farm wanted to quit listening to Napoleon and do there own thing however they knew that if they did that than Farmer Jones would come back and they didn’t want that

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