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Humanity Of Man In Animal Farm

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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. (141)” What George Orwell wrote in the very end of Animal Farm. Animal Farm represented the Russian revolution, talking about a farm taken over by mistreated animals led by the pigs, Napoleon, Snowball, and Squealer. However, instead of getting united as they had intended, the pigs become just like the humans, which they hated. They turned into man, acting like them, eating like them, living like them, and treating animals like them; but how did the pigs end up as the human? The main reason the pigs become like the human is because they had a poor leader, Napoleon, as their leader. As a leader, …show more content…

Efficient leader should be honest to his teammates instead of being irresponsible, lying, and hiding secrets towards them. Specifically, when the animals finished the rebellion and went for harvesting the hay, Napoleon stayed behind and drank all the milk by himself (26). Not only so, as a leader, he started drinking alcohol and sleeping in the bed, which the seven commandments had forbidden (67, 109). Indeed, I admit that leaders could fall into the temptation of the sin. Still, Napoleon disobeys the commandments himself, hid what he had done, which show to be dishonest to the animals. For instance, in the famous battle of Cowshed, Napoleon could not be seen anywhere in the book (41 - 44). There is only one answer why he seems missing—because he hid somewhere during the battle. However, as the story goes on Squealer tells the animal that Napoleon bite Mr. Jones leg and won the battle, which is false (81). No one will call a person who hides from troubles and tells lies a leader; instead, they call such a person coward. Definitely, through these series of action it shows reader Napoleon’s unfaithful and deception character. Thus, Napoleon does not show a respectable example of a leader, for he shows dishonesty to his

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