Human Nature In George Orwell's Animal Farm

(CBS News) By saying this, it makes people think that he is aware and is planning to fix the country for the future. He is just one of many world leaders that are guilty of manipulating people by fear. In Animal Farm, Napoleon tends to use strategies such as, manipulation and negative exploitation towards his comrades. In fact, Napoleon told the animals that working on Sundays was optional, but if they did not work, their ration amount would be cut in half.

In Animal Farm, Orwell shows us many different points and ideas through the characters and plot. One of the major ideas in the story is that power corrupts those who possess it, and Orwell shows us this through the character Napoleon due to his actions and ways of handling problems and the way he forces things to happen or go into effect. Due to those ways he shares many similarities with many different tyrants and dictators, one being Adolf Hitler. The characteristics that brings out the idea is that Napoleon is abusive, manipulative, and selfish. Selfishness is one of the major characteristics that almost all tyrants have.

After all “Napoleon is always right”. The system was corrupt by Stalin himself and who better to cover it up than his very own government or Squealer. The commandments were altered just enough for Napoleon to get away with anything. He had ran off Snowball who was one of the smartest at the farm, and any other animal who questioned him was killed mercilessly. For example the sixth commandment was changed from “No animal shall kill any other animal” to “No animal shall kill any other animal without cause”.

Napoleon knows that some of the other animals were trying to revolt. Although Napoleon has control over the animals, he fears that the animals that stray will eventually gain control. While the animals that rebel remain alive, they will always pose a possible threat to Napoleon 's leadership and dictatorship. The only way that Napoleon feels that he can be certain of maintaining his own authority is by removing those animals permanently, by killing them. This is almost identical to why Jack wanted to kill Ralph.

To everyone he was a poor leader compared to other Monarchs, he was cruel, sometimes brutal with opponents, however he was sometimes kind, he would hire students as spies to make cash. The way he relates to Animal Farm is he acts like Mr. Jones in almost the same way. Their both irresponsible, cruel, and can sometimes be kind. Another relation I would like to make between the Revolution and the book is the creation of Communism and Animalism (Animalism 7 commandments: Ch 2 page 15 ).

Cassius exclaimed that Caesar having all the power is a bad idea, and for that he needed to die. Taking an innocent man’s life for a reason that might not even be true is a cruel act of selfishness. Cassius assumed that Caesar will have a negative effect on Rome, and made a life or death decision based on assuming. Revenge and envy also causes people to assume things. Napoleon, from Animal Farm, assumed that Snowball was in charge of taking revenge by destroying the windmill.

Some people may use the argument that Jack Merridew from Lord of the Flies, as well as Napoleon from Animal Farm become corrupt once they gained power. Power were able to corrupt Jack, and Napoleon by making them avaricious for power. In Lord of the Flies Jack Merridew asserts “"I ought to be chief," said Jack with simple arrogance, "because I 'm chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp.". Jack Merridew became power hungry and corrupt before he gained the authority of island’s hunters.

Another reason why Animal Farm failed because some animals were lazy thinkers, but isn 't true because some animals were able to think. The final reason why Animal Farm failed because Napoleon lusted for power and it 's true because he didn 't want to hurt the animals, but since he became leader and change Animal Farm, he lost control and hurt or kill anyone that did not follow his rules and was sentenced to

A prime example of this is when Jack says, “He’s like Piggy. He says things like Piggy. He isn’t a proper chief.” This act of cruelty was designed to motivate the boys of the island to reject Ralph as their leader. By comparing Ralph to Piggy, Jack tries to manipulate people into thinking he would be an exemplary leader.

In Animal Farm the animals are brainwashed by the authority figures Squealer, Napoleon and Snowball. Squealer’s influential speeches brainwash the animals to doing what he says, Napoleon’s forceful commands brainwash the animals into doing what he says and, Snowball’s intelligent mind brainwashes the animals that he is a passionate leader and makes the animals do what he says. The authority figures corrupt their power by managing the animals viciously for needs. The three ways they showed this was by: Not following commandments, threatening the animals and reducing food, taking credit over the

This novella is an allegory to the Soviet Union. Each individual character represents an important group of people in history. All of which contributed to how we run our government today. In this book man takes from the animals without producing anything in return, the

He supplied them the proper education needed to develop on the farm. However, he taught them to fight for a false cause: himself. Parallel to Stalin during the Russian Revolution, Napoleon is aware the other animals are starting to recognize the abuse of his dictatorship; he immediately selects these nine dogs as his guard dogs, or the KGB during the Russian Revolution. With their fierce looks and menacing growls, the dogs engender fear into the others as they confess to false crimes and perpetually die. Orwell 's use of dramatic irony fits perfectly with Animal Farm, as the dogs do not realize they are causing the farm animals ' oppression to grow exponentially.

A leader has incredible power, but with it he can choose to build up the community as a whole or to keep all the power to himself. Many leaders choose to keep all the power to themselves, but they still need a follower who believes every word the leader says. In George Orwell’s, Animal Farm, the animals decide to rebel against Farmer Jones, as they did not like the way they were treated. Life on the farm seemed promising after the rebellion, until Napoleon got greedy. Napoleon ran off any threats to his power and took away the other animals rights slowly, using his trusted followers, until he treated the other animals worse than Mr. Jones.

John Dalberg-Acton once declared, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. " This quote applies to George Orwell 's political novella, Animal Farm, which symbolizes the Russian Revolution by portraying various leaders and supporters through allegorical characters. Throughout the satire, Orwell strongly emphasizes the point of how power can easily corrupt the ruler of a society. At the beginning of the story, the animals of Manor Farm defeat the tyrannical Mr. Jones in an effort to create a better life for themselves.

As Lord Acton once said “Absolute power corrupts absolutely”. When one is given the choice of what actions to take with their power, they are more likely to take actions benefiting themselves than others. George Orwell’s Animal Farm is used to define power and the corruption that comes from absolute power. The quote is demonstrated in Animal Farm as the characters show how power can corrupt absolutely. Napoleon, the fierce Berkshire Boar, starts to become corrupt after he fought Snowball for the mastery, gaining full control of the revolution.