Essay On Power In Animal Farm

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đź“ŚPublished: 26 June 2022

Power is represented in many different ways in Animal Farm. There are three main characters that represent leaders and the power they hold. These three characters are Mr.Jones, Napoleon, and Snowball. They all held power in this book at one point but Snowball is nothing like the other two as he was actually not that bad of a leader. Mr.Jones and Napoleon were very similar in how they ruled the farm. They ruled with an iron fist, making everyone that wasn’t a close friend to them suffer. The only difference was that Mr. Jones was a human. Although at the end Napoleon became so much like Mr. Jones it was almost impossible to tell them apart. Napoleon became a tyrant and was just as evil as Mr. Jones. Now these characters represent people in real life.

Mr. Jones represented Nicholas, the 2nd ruler of Russia before Ww1. He was a bad ruler and suppressed the people of his country. Snowball represents Trotsky and how he showed good qualities in the beginning and wanted change from Nicholas the 2nd, but was chased out of the country, like Snowball was chased out the farm. Napoleon represents  Joseph Stalin, a dictator right after Ww1 and took over the country and was the person who got rid of Trotsky. He became as much of a dictator as Nicholas the 2nd if not more of a dictator. Both Joseph Stalin and Napoleon suppressed the people and promised a better life and only made it better for them. For example Napoleon made the doctrine “ Napoleon is always right”. Like this Stalin suppressed the people the same way.

A one ruler government can never be good, too much power on one man or woman would most likely corrupt the mind and they would be power hungry. They would become just like all the dictators throughout history. Napoleon, Hitler, Mao Zedong, and many more have seen their empires fall. They have fallen because of self interest and they base their country around themselves. They hold too big of an ego because they are corrupted by power. People in power and in the government should use their power to better the country for the people. It should be based by the people, made  for the people, and answerable to the people. The Government answers to us, not the other way around. This is what Snowball tried to achieve but was kicked off the farm.

Napoleon became like these dictators throughout history although  there was no fall of Animal Farm as the writer has not written it. Napoleon based his government around his needs and the pig’s needs, instead of the people's needs. He suppressed any negative opinions about him and took away rights. Such as the right to vote, freedom of press, freedom of speech and much, much more. This would realistically lead to his downfall in the real world if this scenario was technically real. Just as The Soviet Union fell so would have Napelon. Positive leaders would have been like our founding fathers which wrote the Constitution and based our government around the people as a Democracy. This reason is mainly why our country The United States Of America has lasted so long.

A bunch of other countries have lasted this long because of their government type and there has been no need to rebel against them. They haven’t suppressed their people and haven’t committed violent vile acts and atrocities.

The reader figures this out while reading this book and learns more of rises and falls to power and how there are many flaws in this type of government. We as all of the same race should unite to stop these evils in the world, rebel and take down suppressive and evil governments.

There have been many stories, tales, and the like of governments starting as a democracy and turning into a dictatorship through means of unlimited power for one man. No one man can rule an entire country as it would overwhelm the person and or corrupt them to base the country around their wants instead of the people's needs. This is morally wrong and corrupts every type of government and corrupts leaders. It leads to a bad government which oppresses the people.  Thankfully, The Us have stopped this, We stopped Nazi Germany, and the Soviets. Both of those countries have collapsed and we have standed throughout time.

Our type of government has worked for many years and will work for many more years to come. We are one of the biggest beacons of freedom in the new modern world. We as a country fight for the people who cannot fight for themselves, and we stop all forms of oppression.

There are still many threats today in our world. China, Russia, and North Korea are all threats to Americans, and people around the world. There are also many terrorist groups that threaten the modern free world today. Tragedy has happened because of these countries such as 9/11, the invasion of Ukraine, and Tiananmen Square. These tragedies are why we fight.

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