The Influences Of Power In George Orwell's Animal Farm

A writer once wrote “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” (Acton ). Corruption can be defined as: “Having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain” George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” is a well known allegory that projects the influences of power and how it can be used positively and negatively. In book, the character Napoleon is a pig that takes over Manor Farm from the Jones family. Benito Mussolini was leader of Italy in 1922-1943, a prime minister until 1925, when he established a dictatorship. Francisco Franco overthrew the monarchy and became the dictator of Spain in 1939 until his death in 1975. The leaders Napoleon, Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco did start with the best

Just like Napoleon, Franco made deals with once enemy, US in order to make some money. “Spain allowed the United States to construct three air bases and a naval base on its soil in return for military and economic aid” (History,) “Spain's living standard rose dramatically during the 1960's. By the mid-1970's” (world book). Unlike, Napoleon, Franco’s deals with the US actually benefited the citizens and Spain. Napoleons deals with Mr Frederick made the farm lose money because of Napoleon wrong decision making. Francisco was pretty flexible when it came to changing situations. Sveb laws were made “during his rule provided the regime with a semblance of constitutionalism, but they were developed after the fact, usually to legitimize an existing situation or distribution of power.” Many of these laws were changed or altered to keep Franco at the top. The clever pigs on animal did this with the seven commandments. The pigs often altered the seven commandments to keep napoleon in power and to annihilate any possible objections to their actions. “Four legs good, two legs bad”, was an important part of animalism for the animals to show their hatred toward humans. As the pigs begin to walk on their hind feet the saying soon changes to “four legs good, two legs better”. Another example is when Napoleon killed many of the animals after their confessions, the animals thought killing other animals was against the rules but the animals realises that the rule was actually "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause". Yet know animal could remember. As years passed more and more spanish kept on protesting, but Franco tried to stay out of the public. During these years, Spain loss a huge economic, tourism benefit, through the loss of Morocco when the became