Animal Farm Essay

Animal Farm Essay
      Throughout history, leadership plays an effective role upon millions of citizens in the world. Most societies refer to a leader as a person that attains the characteristics of goodness and virtue. However, leadership also results in negative aspects that later result in dictatorship, in which followers act destructively. Dictatorships usually rise to power in a time of social, political, and economic upheaval. In his novel, Animal Farm, George Orwell uses animal symbolism to relate the events that take place on Animal Farm with the events in the Russian Revolution through the usage of character behavior. An ambition for superior leadership and domination leads to deceit and cruelty that then introduces an eager atmosphere among incompetent followers to feel constructive and significant explicitly depicts the downfall of freedom and equality in Animal Farm.
      Napoleon emerges as a corrupt opportunist who declares himself the leader of Animal Farm. As Napoleon continues to rise in power of all the animals within the farm he soon starts to treat the animals with brutality. After the animals admit they occasionally associate with the enemy of Animal Farm, Snowball, “…they were all slain on the spot. And so the tale of confessions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet, and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown since the expulsion of Jones” (Orwell 93). Napoleon tells the animals that they live in freedom; however, Napoleon’s hunger for total leadership and power abruptly transforms into dictatorship, and the animals cease to have the right to rebel for what they believe. Thus, the animals continuously undergo mistreatment from Napoleon, in which this causes the animals to grow weak and miserable due to the fact that he has complete control over their life. As Napoleon continues to develop a manipulating attitude, the animals in the farm endure severe punishment if they do not...