Power In George Orwell's Animal Farm

In John Actons quote, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts completely.”, is the theme of the book Animal Farm because the pigs began to take advantage of the power they got as for being the leaders of the farm and then turned themselves into the people they considered their enemies. The pigs in the beginning of the book ‘Animal Farm’ hated humans which lead to revolution. Then, the power was taken advantage of by the pigs and began to act like humans and the humans began acting like the animals. When you become leader of something you start to take advantage of that leadership power. “Four dogs guarded his bed at night, one at each corner, and a young pig named Pinkeye was given the task of tasting all his food before he ate it, lest it should be poisoned.”(pg.40) The animals are being treated as Napoleons slaves and are putting Napoleon's life in front of theirs. Not only is Napoleon using animals as slaves but he is also using them as his own self life entertainment. “He had flogged an old horse to death, he starved his cows, he had killed a dog by throwing it into the furnace, he amused himself in the evenings by making cocks fight with splinters of razor-blade tied to their
spurs.” (pg. 40) He uses the animals as his own entertainment and does not seem to care about them. Napoleon has been using his power as a leader to have things the way he pleases or he would figure out a way to get his way by the use of his power. Between Napoleon and Snowball there was an argument between the building of a windmill, which then came to a conclusion that the windmill will be built only with the help of the animals in the farm.
When the windmill was completed Napoleon took the animals credited for building the windmill. “Napoleon himself, attended by his dogs and his cockerel, came down to inspect the completed work; he personally congratulated the animals on their achievement, and announced that the mill would be named Napoleon Mill.” (pg. 42) Even though Napoleon congratulated the animals for their great work he gave himself credit by naming the windmill after himself and not the by the animals. Napoleon took the benefit of being the leader of the farm by naming the windmill after
himself. The power that the pigs had did not tend to corrupt and the absolute power did not corrupt absolutely because the pigs just wanted together to create a farm where animals have a good life and they used their power for their own goodwill because if something bad happened to Napoleon there would be no good animal in the farm that will be able to run the farm as well as Napoleon. Even though this is a good reason why Napoleon might be treating the animals like this it shouldn't give him the right to treat them like slaves.