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The Abuse Of Power In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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Animal Farm The book “Animal Farm” by George Orwell told the story of a farm where the take control and rule over every animal while making it seem that all the animals are equal. The book contains a number of important ideas. These consist of “the patterns of revolution”, “giving and keeping power” (methods and tactics) and “the abuse of power”. The ideas were communicated buy retelling the story of the Russian revolution but instead of actual people he used animals. These ideas are important and relevant today because this sort of stuff is going on at the moment i.e. China, Iran and especially North Korea. In animal farm George Orwell used a small fable to demonstrate big ideas. The events in animal farm closely follow that of which happened …show more content…

The book explains the Russian revolution. During the Russian revolution Joseph Stalin came to power and abused his power. In the book Joseph Stalin was represented by a pig named napoleon. by doing this he could show us how Joseph Stalin abused his power. An example of this is when napoleon only allowed pigs to eat apples and when he changed the commandments so the pigs can sleep in beds and drink alcohol. Orwell used lots of devices to demonstrate his idea, the abuse of power. The devices he used were satine and irony. He used satire buy exposing humanity and its flaws i.e. when the animals were still thinking that what they had is still better that what farmer jones gave them. Even though it was far worse than it was. He was exposing our gullibleness. This is a brilliant example of napoleon abusing his power. Orwell also used irony to show us this. In the final part of the book the animals were sitting round a table with the other farmers playing cards and conforming with humanity but at the start of the book they hated the human and wanted them all dead. This shows napoleons abuse of power buy the way he was able to sway all the animals into thinking that the humans are not that bad and that they shouldn’t be killed. This is how Orwell used irony to show us the abuse of power. This is relevant today because we have real dictators abusing their power today and if we didn’t know if a leader was abusing his power then we wouldn’t be able to help the victims of the

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