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The use of power in the novel Animal Farm

What if one of the most dark times in history was reinterpreted as animals running their own farm. Animal Farm by George Orwell is a book about animals who run their own farm without the help people. The animals of Manor farm were tired of being mistreated and used by their drunk and abusive owner Mr. Jones. After the humans are evicted from the farm the pigs take over the events represent the occurrences of what happened during the Russian Revolution. Through the novel the author of Animal farm shows that an excess of power will corrupt. At the beginning of the novel Jones the takes advantage of his power and becomes corrupt being abusive to his animals starting the whole dilemma. After the

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