Animal Farm Narcissism

Torture gives leaders a lasting grip on their country, but it isn’t quite as effective as other methods. An example to this, Uzbekistan. The government induces child labor in which 2.7 million children are forced to work in hard condition instead of going to school. Not only that, Uzbekistan could not break out of poverty and found that their agricultural output has diminished. Similarly, the book Animal Farm by George Orwell portrays the exact situation. Orwell suggests that narcissism and cruelty lead to loss of freedom and equality in a society. Narcissism leads to the loss of freedom and equality because self obsession causes a negligence of everyone besides the one affected by it. Napoleon was only interested into trivial matters that

This is shown when the animals witnessed a shocking event when many other animals confessed. “They did not know which was more shocking–the treachery of the animals who had leagued themselves with Snowball, or the cruel retribution they had just witnessed.”(93) Even if an animal were to speak out, the dangers and targeting would overcast the benefits of seeing one less dead animal. As time progressed, the more obvious that the pigs are the most dominant. “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. After that it did not seem strange when next day the pigs who were supervising the work of the farm all carried whips in their trotters.” It wasn’t strange when all pigs carried whips. That moment was the sign of a complete dominant take-over by the pigs. A whip is deemed to be an instrument of dominance, torture, and persecution. Mr. Jones and his men utilize whips to control, punish and torment the animals. It has turned into a symbol of man's abuse and his way of showing animal's subservience. It is one of the first things the creatures destroyed after the Rebellion, causing to show it’s utmost disdain it brought to the animals. Yet when brought back, no animal even batted an eye. This shows that the animals were so brainwashed that they forgot the principle ideology that was brought on after the revolution. This shows resemblance between the pigs, and what the animals first saw as cruel