Abuse Of Power In Animal Farm

In Animal Farm by George Orwell, the animals on a certain farm overthrow their human owner. As they begin to control and run the farm, the pigs, who are the smartest animals, take charge and write out new rules that define their “animalism”. However, as time passes, the animals forget about the revolution. The farm becomes corrupted as power slowly changes the animals. The author, George Orwell, delivers a message on how power corrupts people by using farm animals to represent the 1917 Russian Revolution. The story depicts the theme of influential power throughout the entire storyline. The pigs lead the revolt of Manor Farm to success and they take main control. Although they are the ones who encouraged animalism and equality, the pigs become tempted towards the advantages of power after their revolt. They begin to make excuses to do things that were for their own luxury. “It is for your
Mr Jones was the owner of Manor Farm as Tsar Nicholas II was the ruler of Russia. The pigs who become the two main leaders of the farm, Snowball and Napoleon, represent Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky in the Russian Revolution. Both groups also become political rivals. “The animals listened first to Napoleon, then to Snowball, and could not make up their minds which was right… they always found themselves in agreement with the one who was speaking at the moment” (34). The people of Russia during that time were not as sure whether Stalin and Trotsky were right, similar to the animals deciding over the two pigs. Later through history, Stalin, who was hungry for more power, chased Trotsky out of the Soviet Union and took complete control over the country. It was the same case with Napoleon driving Snowball out of the farm. As an outcome, their ideas of equality become corrupted as Stalin and Napoleon both become corrupted by