George Orwell's Message in Animal Farm

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GEORGE ORWEL'S MESSAGE IN ANIMAL FARM Animal Farm was written by George Orwell and it reflects on the events of the Russian revolution of 1917. This book is about how pig’s gain power and how they use it similar to how the Russian leaders did. Power is type strength strong enough to push someone’s will. Power is used in our everyday lives for instance when you decide to choose a red shirt over a blue shirt which displays that you have power over what you want. It takes courage to earn power to become a leader. George Orwell’s purpose in Animal Farm is that cleverer ones are the one with power but can always start to become greedier and greedier which would build to corruption. But it is you giving enabling someone to control you such as Old Major’s speech. “We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty (Orwell 3).” What this quote points out is that you are the one who has power over everything and when you are ‘slaughtered with hideous cruelty’ it is you giving others the power to control you. Since the pigs were the ‘brainworkers’, they start to gain more and more power subsequently through leadership which then corrupts them. Firstly, one of the messages George Orwell expresses is that absolute power builds to corruption. Orwell’s point is that power tends to corrupt but absolute power, where all power is given to you, corrupts completely. But when all the power is given to you, you will always want more which builds to corruption and this is demonstrated throughout the Animal Farm. One of the quotes said, “You do not imagine, I hope that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Our sole object is
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