Back to category: Novels

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.

Animal Farm

Shown throughout history, leaders of a nation or country who are granted power, or who seize power, often abuse its privilege, which generally results in unhappy and bitter citizens who are not capable, or too scared, to bring about a change. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, overworked and mistreated animals revolt against the owners of the farm, the Jones, and established a government and a way of life of their own which, in time, turns into a dictatorship run by the pigs of the farm. In this novel, George Orwell is suggesting that the abuse of power causes someone to rise to power, citizens to become slaves of the leader, and the leader to change from his true identity.
In any dictatorship, a leader comes to rule and abuses the power in which he seized; furthermore, he uses his people, or in this case animals, to work for and under him in order to gain personal wealth. Napoleon, a pig who became the leader of the animals, took control of the farm and quickly made it into a dicta...

Posted by: Joel Chibota

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.