Animal Farm Quote Analysis

In the novel Animal Farm written by George Orwell, this quote is proven true in novel, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”- Lord Acton. First, Snowball is the leader of the farm but then Napoleon overthrows snowball by kicking him out with force. Once Napoleon starts to gain power he abuses it on the farm very quickly. Life becomes very hard for most of the animals on the farm. Through a lot of propaganda and persuading Squealer gets the animals to believe many things that will only help Napoleon. Once this happens and a few changes are made on the farm, power truly does corrupt absolutely. Napoleon and the pigs begin to gain more advantages, privileges, and power on the farm and, as a result, life became worse for the animals than when Mr. Jones was there. First, Napoleon comes to power by being in authority and using force to take over. Then, to become the leader/dictator of Animal Farm he trains nine dogs to chase Snowball out …show more content…
Napoleon starts by making the work days and weeks very long and tiring. In addition, he makes the animals work on Sundays in order to get a good amount of food. This quote from the novel proves how long and hard the animals worked, “Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty−hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.” (Orwell 18) Since the animals have to work on Sundays now, Napoleon banned all meetings on Sundays. Napoleon and some of the other animals start making modifications to the seven commandments. This quote shows what changes wee made, “A few days later, when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals remembered−or thought they remembered−that the Sixth Commandment decreed "No animal shall kill any other