Animal Firm

Animal Firm

Power is authority and strength, which is any form of motive force or energy, ability to act, or control.   When too much power is given, a dictatorship government can form, in which all decisions are made by one authority.   In Animal Farm, by George Orwell the author portrays how Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  
In Animal Farm, Orwell argues that absolute power corrupts absolutely, though communism is the perfect government on paper, propaganda and hypocrisy get the best of the system, when one becomes obsessed with the power one has, one tends to abuse it, Animal Farm is an excellent example of how power corrupts and Orwell uses allegory to suggest this.
Animal Farm tells the simple and tragic story of what happens when the oppressed farm animal’s rebel, drive out Mr. Jones from the farmer who represents Czar Nicholas II in the history, and attempt to rule the farm themselves, on an equal basis. What the animals seem to have aimed at was a utopian sort of communism, where each would work according to his capacity, respecting the needs of others. The venture failed, and Animal Farm ended up being a dictatorship of pigs, which were the brightest, and most idle of the animals.

Orwell's mastery lies in his presentation of the horrors of totalitarian regimes, and his analysis of communism put to practice, through satire and simple story-telling. The structure of the novel is skillfully organized, and the careful reader may, for example, detect the causes of the failure of communism even from the first chapter. This is deduced from Orwell's description of the various animals as they enter the barn and take their seats to listen to the revolutionary preaching of Old Major, father of communism in Animal Farm. Each animal has different features and attitude; the pigs, for example, "settled down in the straw immediately in front of the platform", which is a hint on their future role, whereas Clover, the affectionate horse" made a sort...