Corruption Of Power In Animal Farm

With the pigs already being the preeminent animals of the farm, there’s always the more preeminent pig, known as Napoleon. Napoleon fulfilled the leadership position, taking charge position of the farm after he mercilessly had his army of nine fully grown dogs he raised on his own, chased Snowball, another pig that Napoleon felt he was in competition with, off the farm’s property. Similar to how Josef Stalin eliminated Leon Trotsky, his close friend, to gain more power. With Snowball gone and the rest of the farm animals in fear of Napoleon’s vicious army, he no longer had to worry about anyone going against him. By way of illustration, the corruption of power was shown through Napoleon when the windmill the farm animals had been working hard …show more content…
For instance the animals confessed publicly that they had communicated with Snowball and committed many other unacceptable actions they hadn’t even taken part in “with guilt written on every line of their countenance’ (Orwell 32). The corrupted power that Napoleon acted upon the animals led to the breaking of a commandment. The meeting ended very ruinous yet breaking the sixth commandment which proclaimed “no animal shall kill any other animal” (Orwell 9), but upon the animals confessing to Napoleon, “and so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones” (Orwell 33) showing no apathy while doing so. This alludes to the Russian Revolution in 1934-38 when Josef Stalin issued the Great Purge. Where “it was impossible to know who would be arrested, since the ‘crimes’ people were accused of were concocted by Stalin’s secret police” in which “ ‘confessions’ were beaten and extorted out of people, as were accusations against other innocent victims, who in turn were arrested and tortured” (Kort