Before we begin, here's a video about how, why, and if power corrupts.
(the lady speaks pretty fast)
- Animals dominated Mr. Jones
- Snowball leads the election until Napoleon gets rid of him
- Napoleon gained control with his guard dogs, that protect him 24/7
- Napoleon plans to build the windmill to preoccupy the animals
- Napoleon and the other pigs become more like humans, start acting like humans and gaining their habits
- The Seven Commandments become one Commandment
Some of these will be in the Kahoot!
Power Corrupts
in Animal Farm
Project By: Lucas, Josh, Jesse, and Justin
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. London: Penguin, 2000. Print.
"Animal Farm." Animal Farm Book Summary. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. Web. 26 Oct. 2016.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Animal Farm Quotes." Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 26 Oct. 2016.
"How Is Power and Corruption Shown in Animal Farm?" Enotes.com. Enotes.com, 16 Aug. 2012. Web. 26 Oct. 2016.
How does Power Corrupt a Person? (or animal)
- They feel like they have total control over everything
- They think only their opinions matter and that they're always right
- They realize they can use the power they have to their advantage
- They can't fulfill their responsibilities and resort to drastic measures
- They start to get stressed about what they're responsible for, and start forcing others to do a good job
- They're able to do things that people usually get punished for, but since they have all the power they can't be punished
Kahoot time! Take out your devices, and you may partner up. Silly names will be kicked!
Before the Rebellion
- Mr. Jones had full power of the farm
- Animals were unhappy, underfed, and mistreated.
- Old Major called for a meeting about his strange dream
- Old Major planned a rebellion for the animals, and sang his song that he remembers from when he was little
- Song name was "Beasts Of England"; song about peace without humans
- The solution was all animals become comrades and unite against humans
- Snowball makes the singing of "Beasts of England" and the raising of the flag a weekly ritual, to happen every Sunday
- Snowball creates plans for building a windmill
- Napoleon and Snowball fight for leader
- Constant disagreement between the 2 pigs
- Napoleon gets rid of Snowball with his trained dogs
- Squealer assures the animals that Napoleon is a better leader than Snowball
The 2 Pigs Fight For Power
The Rebellion
Napoleon Has Full Control
- The animals were planning the rebellion for a while
- Mr.Jones was drunk and forgot to feed the animals, so the animals were very hungry because Jones did not feed them, so they attacked in desperation for food
- The animals were victorious in their food raid/rebellion and were able to rid of Mr.Jones from his farm
- The animals started a new system where the farm was run only by the animals
- Napoleon removes Snowball from animal farm
- Trained his 9 dogs to guard him
- Napoleon starts breaking and altering the 7 Commandments
- Executes any animal that has any sort of alliance with Snowball
- Napoleon has the animals controlled with the lies Squealer keeps telling them
- Boxer gets traded for money (killed)
- Retirement area becomes barley farm
- The pigs become more like humans; begin drinking whiskey, walk with 2 legs, carry a whip, began wearing clothing
- Napoleon reverts name to Manor Farm
- Begin collaborating with the humans from the neighboring farms
- All rebellion schemes are forgotten
- The corruption of the principles of the revolution is illustrated by the changing Seven Commandments, which are drastically changed over the course of the book by Squealer with orders from Napoleon. At the end, all that was left on the wall was one commandment: "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS."
The book's final passage, when some of the animals witness the pigs arguing and playing cards with Pilkington and the other humans in the farmhouse, makes the corruption of power most clear:
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. 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.