Power Destroys Ideals (0)

Power Destroys Ideals
Throughout the centuries people have fought for power. Leadership has been a reason for many wars and fights. For some people one of the most important things in life is to have power over everybody else . Very often those who become leaders destroy or forget about the ideals they had before and about the promises they made. G. Orwell ’s book “ Animal Farm ” is an excellent example of how easy it is to forget about the ideals.
In his novel George Orwell pictures a human society through the animal farm. He uses exagerations which help to feel the atmosphere of spoiled society. Society ruined by dictators, false ideas and corruption . In the novel the animals are shown as the exagerated copies of human beings with all their characters, habits and feelings . The story took place on the farm where the animals led a rebellion against the human beings. The revolution was started by the pigs who were considered the most intelligent animals. The others helped the pigs because they hoped for the better and easier life and they thought that the pigs would change everything for the best . Unfortunately it did not work out so well. As soon as the pigs came to the power they forgot about their promises and the needs of their comrades became unimportant.
After the rebellion was held , the animals invented the seven commandments for the future life of the farm. At first they managed to follow the rules but suddenly one of the pigs, Napoleon , decided that he wanted more power. He made Snowball, who was the leader before him, leave the farm and usurped the power. All of the animals were brainwashed. Napoleon was a good manipulator and made animals do everything he wanted them to. He and some other pigs moved to the farmhouse although it was agreed from the beginning that no animal should go in there . Pigs also slept in the beds and did other things that they were not actually supposed to. Pigs were smarter than other animals, so they secretly changed the seven commandments and tricked the others so that they did not understand what was going on. Napoleon acted like a cruel dictator and changed the life on the farm into chaos.
In the real world it is all the same . At first people who want power promise different things that they would do to make the life better and easier. They tell the others about how much effort they will put in their future work and tasks. Unfortunately many or even the most of those promises are never kept. As soon as a person or a political party gets the power they tend to forget their words. The life of the rulers automatically changes for the better when they get their high position and because of that they very often forget the previous ideals, promises and beliefs . On the Animal Farm Napoleon and the other pigs promised the animals that their life will be way better than it was before, that all the animals are equal and should be treated much better, but as soon as the pigs got the power they did not care about the well-being of the animals very much anymore . The events that took place on the Animal Farm give a perfect example of how it works in the real life.
People have always fought for power. Leadership appears to be one of the most important things in the human society. The wish to get power makes people promise things that they are never going to do and to forget about their previous thoughts and ideals. Events that take place in George Orwell’s novel “Animal Farm” show perfectly how the things actually work in real life. It has been like that form the very beginning and whether people want it or not the power will always destroy ideals.