Reflection on Animal Farm and its Relation to Power and Corruption Baron Acton once said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” In reading George Orwell’s Animal Farm, it becomes apparent that this quote comes into play with much of the story line. Two specific events stuck out to me in the story, each making it clear that Napoleon’s power had corrupted absolutely. He was a bad man, and there was nothing anyone could do about it because of said power. At one point in the story, the animals come outside to find Squealer, Napoleon, and the other pigs walking on two legs. This image is powerful, and shows the leaders going against everything they once said, showing that they simply
