Effects Of Corruption In Animal Farm

Corruption’s Effects on Life The rebellion in George Orwell’s satire Animal Farm may have sounded appealing to the animals at first -never having to work for humans again- but they didn’t see the challenges and corruption in front of them. This book focuses on allegorizing the rise of Joseph Stalin and Soviet Communism. Readers are able to pull different biblical themes and perspectives out that should convict us as believers. A strong theme in this book is corruption, and Orwell conveys its effects on freedom and equality through the pigs: especially Napoleon. Napoleon’s development throughout the book shows readers how easily humans are subject to being corrupted and tricked. Blinded to the changes in Napoleon’s thinking, the animals couldn’t see what was slowly making itself visible in their near future. In the months after the rebellion, Napoleon wanted to treat everyone equally, he made a good life for them, and he tried to treat everyone equally. However, throughout the next few years, he began seeing himself and the pigs in
The pigs ended up getting rid of all of the other commandments and replacing it with one sentence, “It ran: All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” This shows how corrupt the pigs became over the years after the rebellion. The pigs thought themselves higher than the other animals, because they were the smartest, so they made themselves the leaders of the farm. Consequently, things began to happen under the animals radar. For example, Napoleon took the milk and apples for the pigs and told the animals it was to “feed their brain”. Although some animals thought this unfair, most believed it as a plausible reason. So began the biased hierarchy of the pigs. Napoleon’s corrupted view of equality led to the destruction of the animal’s