“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny” (Thomas Jefferson).
Tyranny is a type of government where the leader becomes an absolute ruler who treats his people cruel. A tyrant, the dictator, creates a government that has total control over its people and their activities. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm to teach his readers a political lesson about power corrupting people who are in control of the government. Animal Farm is a dystopian allegory about what happened to the people after their revolution of Russia in 1917. It is a political allegory, Orwell wrote an entertaining science fictional book about a society gone bad. It falls under …show more content…
His book starts at a farm where the oppressed animals, overthrew their cruel master, Mr. Jones. The animals live on Manor Farm and change the name to Animal Farm after the successful revolution. The animals in democratic fashion set up a new government based on equality for everyone. At the early stages of the new government, it seemed like a utopia, a paradise. Gradually, the animals were betrayed by the power hungry evil pigs especially their leader Napoleon. The pigs, the more intelligent animals, gradually take control and Napoleon becomes the dictator. The new government, society, becomes even worse than the government under Mr. Jones. Things actually went from bad to worse without many of the animals even realizing it. In Animal Farm, George Orwell created animals to represent the human race. Orwell showed that even though people desire to achieve a fair and equal world for everyone, that their dreams are not achievable when attempts to reach