Power Corruption And Tyranny In George Orwell's Animal Farm

I have learned very much by completing this scrapbook activity. By researching about current events that are happening today, I have acquired a stronger grasp on the ideals of Animal Farm, which was published many years ago, by connecting these ideals to problems in today’s society. I have learned that power corrupts, and tyranny is a manifestation of this power engulfing the person that wants it most. Napoleon’s actions portray the repugnant effect that this need for power has on an individual that was originally decent. This activity has further developed my understanding of the implications of Orwell’s message in Animal Farm. Orwell wanted the reader to become aware of how quickly an idealistic socialist government can quickly become an oppressive dictatorship that adopts the opposite values of the desired socialist government. …show more content…
Napoleon, for example, replaced Mr. Jones’s lazy and neglectful tyranny with oppressive, violent tyranny. Napoleon’s reign was arguably worse than Mr. Jones’s. I think I should be scared about the ideas contained in the articles and in the novel. Upon first reading Animal Farm, I saw the terror the animals were inflicted with as something that was more a problem in the past then it is today. However, after researching these articles, I have realized that the ideas contained in the novel are apparent in current events today. Although Orwell’s prediction that totalitarianism would take over many governments by this time was wrong, his book may have been one of the reasons for this, and I see, in other countries, totalitarianism being