The definition of power is the capacity to control or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. “Power is ethically neutral - it can be used for constructive or destructive purposes, self-interest or the good of others, or both at the same time. Power… triggers intense emotions - fear, envy, jealousy, greed.” We learn that in the real world, power is a very strong but also fragile commodity. In the poem ‘Men of England’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the goal was to send out a message to the English workers saying to rebel against the drones. In the novel ‘Animal Farm’ by Eric Arthur Blair, with the pen name of George Orwell, the intent was to make an allegory of the Russian revolution.
As a community, we must ask ourselves a simple but also somewhat complex question to better comprehend the topic at hand. Is cruelty derived from power? Or are the people that are cruel more likely to obtain power? These questions can be answered from where Napoleon …show more content…
This is shown in ‘Men of England’, where in the third stanza, Shelley states that the “stingless drones may spoil the forced produce of your toil”. Also, in the ninth chapter in ‘Animal Farm’ Napoleon ordered around the other animals on the farm to finish rebuilding the windmill. “Because the elite class controls the dissemination of information on Animal Farm, it is able to hide the terrible truth of its exploitation of the other animals. Fallible individual memories of Snowball’s bravery and Napoleon’s cowardice at the Battle of the Cowshed prove no match for the collective, officially sponsored memory that Squealer constructs, which paints a picture indicating completely the reverse. With no historical, political, or military resources at their command, the common animals have no choice but to go along with the
As a community, we must ask ourselves a simple but also somewhat complex question to better comprehend the topic at hand. Is cruelty derived from power? Or are the people that are cruel more likely to obtain power? These questions can be answered from where Napoleon …show more content…
This is shown in ‘Men of England’, where in the third stanza, Shelley states that the “stingless drones may spoil the forced produce of your toil”. Also, in the ninth chapter in ‘Animal Farm’ Napoleon ordered around the other animals on the farm to finish rebuilding the windmill. “Because the elite class controls the dissemination of information on Animal Farm, it is able to hide the terrible truth of its exploitation of the other animals. Fallible individual memories of Snowball’s bravery and Napoleon’s cowardice at the Battle of the Cowshed prove no match for the collective, officially sponsored memory that Squealer constructs, which paints a picture indicating completely the reverse. With no historical, political, or military resources at their command, the common animals have no choice but to go along with the