Key Themes In Animal Farm By George Orwell

In this essay, the author

• Analyzes how george orwell's animal farm shows that with power comes corruption even if it may be in a different form. animals are like men because when they receive power, they are bound to become corrupt.
• Analyzes how animals force mr.jones out of the farm and the pigs fall to the temptation from the power that they gain. animalism teaches that all animals are equal yet in the napoleon led government only a bureaucratic few hold power
• Analyzes how the new rule under the pigs is hostile to whom they feel are dissidents to napoleon's rule. this is shown when napoleon casts out his rival snowball from the farm.
• Analyzes how the views of equality have been forgotten in the living conditions of the animals. napoleon had told them that the truest happiness lies in working hard and living frugally.
• Explains that humans and pigs were so similar that it was hard to tell them apart. under the leadership of both groups, the animals were oppressed
• Concludes that animal farm is a true portrayal that power inevitably leads to corruption, no matter how virtuous the original goal was.
• Analyzes how modern society has changed from the 1940s when orwell wrote animal farm. the revolution and communist rule in russia that he critiqued through his allegorical novel has come and gone.
• Analyzes how the pigs, like the other animals, had a notable goal of ending the oppression that the animals of the farm faced through the revolution, but once they came into power, they changed.
• Explains that notable people of power who had virtuous goals and originally sought to use their position for good, have also fallen to the temptation that power brings.
• Analyzes how both orwell's pigs and the real life examples had good intentions originally and based their goals in the ideas of equality, freedom, and dignity.
• Explains why power does this to otherwise honorable people. people who gain this power are not used to having it thus they aren't sure how to handle their new responsibilities.
• Opines that in the case of real world corruption, most public officials have never had as much power over their faction of society as when they gained their new status.
• Concludes that orwell was right about how power can be corruptive. the pigs had noble desires which led them to fight along with their comrades during the revolution, but they ultimately let the influence of power change them.