What Is The Abuse Of Power In Animal Farm
The novel Animal Farm teaches many different life lessons relating to the real world, and politics. One specifc one that comes up a great amount of times in the novel is how power corrupts leaders. Having complete or a large amount rule over something always seems to decrease a person’s morals and wishes for the people or animals they have rule over. This is shown in the novel when the pig Napoleon becomes leader slowly starts doing terrible things to the other animals on the farm. This power corruption idea relates to Mobutu Sese Seko’s power taking a big toll on his behavior and morals while he was in power of Zaire. Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga was his birth given name, but he later changed it to Joseph-Désiré Mobutu,
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Mobutu took some control over th television shows that people could watch such as news and other information sources. this was because sometimes he did not want his people to know everything that was going on behind the scenes of his work for the country. Mobutu also controlled thing heard on the radio,seen on social media, or read in the newspapers for the same reason. At one point, Mobutu actually took things in to his own hands. He wrote and the newspapers himself to avoid any conflicts. One main reason that Mobutu became his own journalist was because plenty of the journalists that he had previously hired, reported negative things, This caused Mobutu to get angry with them, fire them, and have these unlucky people imprisoned or …show more content…
Mobutu ruled the entire system. Everyone was allowed to get an education as long as it was profitable for their family. The teachers were not allowed to teach freely in the classrooms.Teachers were made to teach Mobutuism to people ins chocolate. Mobutism was placed in the spot of religion, so instead of students taking religious courses in school they were made to take Mobutusim. it pretty much explained rules to follow and how it worked. There is a book that can be found today explaining all of Mobutu’s rules and systems that may have been used in schools att he
Mobutu took some control over th television shows that people could watch such as news and other information sources. this was because sometimes he did not want his people to know everything that was going on behind the scenes of his work for the country. Mobutu also controlled thing heard on the radio,seen on social media, or read in the newspapers for the same reason. At one point, Mobutu actually took things in to his own hands. He wrote and the newspapers himself to avoid any conflicts. One main reason that Mobutu became his own journalist was because plenty of the journalists that he had previously hired, reported negative things, This caused Mobutu to get angry with them, fire them, and have these unlucky people imprisoned or …show more content…
Mobutu ruled the entire system. Everyone was allowed to get an education as long as it was profitable for their family. The teachers were not allowed to teach freely in the classrooms.Teachers were made to teach Mobutuism to people ins chocolate. Mobutism was placed in the spot of religion, so instead of students taking religious courses in school they were made to take Mobutusim. it pretty much explained rules to follow and how it worked. There is a book that can be found today explaining all of Mobutu’s rules and systems that may have been used in schools att he