Leadership in Animal Farm
Leadership in Animal Farm
A leader can help their followers to a better place, and to live better lives that the followers would not sometimes be able to do without their leader. However, many leaders do not want to help their followers and are only in their position because they crave power and use their followers to get what they want. These horrible leaders are the focus of George Orwell’s novel “Animal Farm”. This novel shows what happens when a leader who cares only for himself when they have absolute power which is through the characters of the pigs, Napoleon the leader, and Squealer, the assistant of Napoleon. And the followers are all the animals on the farm. You will see the manipulation through the pigs, which changes rules, and to make their lives better.
The pigs make rules that are not beneficial to the followers, but yet they make it seem as if though what the animals are doing is a good thing to do. After, Napoleon changes rules about work. “Through out the spring and summer they worked a sixty hour week, and in August, Napoleon announced that there will would be work on Sunday afternoons as well” (pg. 40) This quote shows that the pigs only cared about themselves and did everything to benefit themselves because they are making the animals work one extra day in the week. Furthermore “This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.” (pg. 40) The pigs use the word “voluntary” to give the animals the idea of freedom; this shows that the leaders are tricking the animals to make sure that the animals don’t think that the leaders are fooling them.
The pigs break laws and make changes to them to benefit themselves. After, the narrator explains, “It was about time the pigs suddenly move into the farmhouse and took up their residence there. ” (pg. 45) While the pigs first use their power for food, and simple benefits, their desire for the more luxurious
A leader can help their followers to a better place, and to live better lives that the followers would not sometimes be able to do without their leader. However, many leaders do not want to help their followers and are only in their position because they crave power and use their followers to get what they want. These horrible leaders are the focus of George Orwell’s novel “Animal Farm”. This novel shows what happens when a leader who cares only for himself when they have absolute power which is through the characters of the pigs, Napoleon the leader, and Squealer, the assistant of Napoleon. And the followers are all the animals on the farm. You will see the manipulation through the pigs, which changes rules, and to make their lives better.
The pigs make rules that are not beneficial to the followers, but yet they make it seem as if though what the animals are doing is a good thing to do. After, Napoleon changes rules about work. “Through out the spring and summer they worked a sixty hour week, and in August, Napoleon announced that there will would be work on Sunday afternoons as well” (pg. 40) This quote shows that the pigs only cared about themselves and did everything to benefit themselves because they are making the animals work one extra day in the week. Furthermore “This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.” (pg. 40) The pigs use the word “voluntary” to give the animals the idea of freedom; this shows that the leaders are tricking the animals to make sure that the animals don’t think that the leaders are fooling them.
The pigs break laws and make changes to them to benefit themselves. After, the narrator explains, “It was about time the pigs suddenly move into the farmhouse and took up their residence there. ” (pg. 45) While the pigs first use their power for food, and simple benefits, their desire for the more luxurious
Cited: Orwell, George. Animal Farm (Penguin Modern Classics). New York: Penguin Books Ltd, 2000