Animal Farm

This has been the longest 4-day school week ever.

In English class, we are reading a book called, Animal Farm, by George Orwell. It is an interesting book.  I never knew, at the age of fifteen, that I would be reading a book where animals talk. It’s actually very compelling and rebellious. I love it.

Writing prompt: In your opinion, does political power corrupt the people who attain it? Also, how do you think George Orwell would answer this question? Use quotes from the first two chapters to support your answer.

While reading the first two chapters of Animal Farm, I have concluded that power provides a opportunity for a person to be whatever they are most naturally. It is the removal of restraints on behavior that corrupts the people who attain it. This is because a loss of power has the capacity to corrupt as well, and for the people who are powerless, they make the decision to first, regain their power by changing; secondly, regain power by taking it from others, and lastly, by making others feel powerless. For example, when the animals attacked the humans. This implies the idea that the animals felt untreated and ungrateful, and because of this, the animals tried to regain power by taking it away from the humans and making them feel powerless. This encourages the generalizations that people will try to regain their power anyway possible. When someone or a group of people controls others, they feel jealous and inferior. This is because although they are the same, the attitude and personality of ones trait establishes a superior and inferior side of the human population, which creates anger and disputes.

Orwell will answer this question similar to my hypothesis because in the book demonstrates the rebellious and the animals you assume they are better then the others (pig). 

"Man is the only real enemy we have" (29). 

This suggests that because the animals are rebellious, they first set their who their enemies are and who are not (the animals on the farm), then they work out a plan to prevent to humans to appear, and reduce the amount of disputes within the animal farm community. This will create a solid and strong battle. This also perpetuates the idea that when trying to implement power in your daily-life, you have to set confinements.

After the lecture, there was a voting election:

"The vote was taken at once, at it was agreed by overwhelming majority that rats were comrades" (31)

This gives the perception that when one group of people does not agree to the majority, they are hated, and over-turned by.  And because of this, they establish stereotypes and defiance within the community.