Animal Farm Response

As a satire and allegory of Russian Revolution, Animal Farm helps us determine and reflect all the different lessons learnt in different parts of the book. The lessons that I could pick out were politics, corruption due to power/absolute power, equality- more equal when the system is corrupted, propaganda used for convincing and also when someone receives absolute power, it is not going to the good of the people but to oneself only. These were several “lessons” I thought Orwell was trying to convey in Animal Farm. The first lesson gives us a detailed idea that when absolute power is given to one only then that power is not used for the public’s good but for oneself only. This is normally to give oneself luxury and strength over others. It relates to when Napoleon gains the authority over the farm after driving Snowball out and only looks out for his own benefits. Another example is when the Squealer is convincing the animals that pigs have to eat apples and drink milk is for everyone’s good, because it’s scientifically proven that it contains substances absolute necessary for the well-being of a pig. So in this case the pigs/Napoleon are misusing the power they are given to make sure they have all their desired substance and are treated and fed like Kings. This lesson is important because its true when a person gains too much power, it’s first used to make sure he is happy and satisfied. His desire can never stop, which would be harmful for the people that are in his way in order to get what he wants. For example when Napoleon took away those dogs from Jessie and Bluebell, it could have been for the sake of protection from humans but instead those dogs were trained and used to help out Napoleon get his way. While on the other side Squealer on was one of Napoleon’s treasured tools to get animals to believe that he is right and to obey his orders. As absolute power creates absolute corruption, Napoleon and his pigs got corrupted as they held the title of supremacy