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Exploring The Impact Of Power In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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Impact of Power On August 17, 1945, George Orwell published his book, Animal Farm, and on August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti seized all control over Iraq and Kuwait. In Animal Farm, Napoleon, the pig, takes over Manor Farm and all of its residents. Saddam Hussein of Iraq overtook everything on the Iraq-Kuwait border. Both dictators, Napoleon and Hussein, are harsh, cruel, and selfish. There are many similarities between Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Napoleon, from Animal Farm by George Orwell, but how they rise to power, their laws and policies, and the cruelties they inflict upon their people is what makes them well known today. Napoleon and Saddam Hussein’s rise to power is what leads them to be well-known dictator’s today. …show more content…

For example, Napoleon has his dogs chase Snowball around the fire, so it smothers him and makes it hard to breath; he uses his resources to kill those who wrong him (Orwell 59). If someone questions his authority he lashes out, and tries to kill them or harm them. When he does not get what he wants he uses bodily harm or tactics. Napoleon runs Snowball out of the farm so he can rise to power, but his power results in him killing innocent citizens to prove a point (Orwell 58-59). Those who question him are killed in a cruel and merciless way. He is heartless and is going to sell the hens eggs for profit, so when they do not give them up he kills them. Saddam Hussein uses similar evils as Napoleon to make people act accordingly. He had no problems with using chemical weapons; those chemical weapons were used to start a Kurdish uprising that resulted in many innocent lives being destroyed (“Hussein” 2). Saddam used horrid and atrocious chemical weapons. He is cruel and does not care about other families or villages; he only craves power. Saddam Hussein established methodical purges of the Iraqi army, he aimed to kill officers that held a high-ranking status, and who were admired by their troops (Swain 503). Saddam killed off those more liked than him, and Napoleon kills those who question his authority. Their cruelty affects everyone, but him. Both dictator’s hate and cruelty is the main point of their life that makes them known

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