How Does George Orwell Use Corruption In Animal Farm

Imagine living in a word where you don't get to make your own decisions. Imagine being forced to do hard labor for only the tiniest of profit. Imagine putting your life in danger, fighting for somebody who mistreats you and lies to you. George Orwell explores ideas of leadership and corruption in the satirical allegory Animal Farm. The book is about a group of animals that overthrow their owner and create a society where all animals are equal. As the animals strive to make Animal Farm a better place, they unknowingly are taken advantage of by the self appointed leader, Napoleon. Napoleon gradually becomes more and more corrupt, letting power go to his head, and forgetting the very reason the owner was chased away in the first place.
Napoleon is a very manipulative leader and uses his intelligence to control the
Another way that Napoleon demonstrates bad leadership is that he is very cruel. He makes a contract with grocery store to sell 400 eggs a week. He declared that the hens must surrender their eggs in order to pay for grain and meals that would keep the farm going in bad winter conditions. Understandably, the hens were outraged and revolted against Napoleon. He order that their food rations be stopped immediately and anyone who helped them old be executed. Napoleon’s group of protective dogs were used for gruesome executions, in the book it says “The three hens who had been the ringleaders of the attempted rebellion over the eggs now came forward and stated that Snowball appeared to them in a dream and incited them to disobey Napoleon’s orders. They, too, were slaughtered.”(93), Napoleon’s corruption is being more scary and intense. The hens are not given a fair trial or put into custody instead they are murdered while their terrified peers watch. During his reign, Napoleon executes many of the animals that defy his rules. The result is that the animals are miserable and living in fear, trying to oblige Napoleon’s every