Power is the Creation of Corruption

*Author's Note*

This is an essay response to Animal Farm.

Power, everyone dreams of withholding it. The truth is, we humans can’t handle the possession of complete power. The empire of a single ruler collapses simply because of the human brain. The ability of being able to boss everyone around is too much. Power does not create happiness, power does not create free will, power only creates corruption.

For instance Czar Nicolas II had complete power over such a large mass of land and his country was falling poor because he was fattening up. He had all of his money but wouldn’t share with the poor. The poor though, were basically his whole country. He was using his power to his advantage by getting is wife whatever she wanted. He wanted to change into Karl Marx’s theory of Communism. The only thing that really happened was that they just went back to how things were before the idea, then things followed suit in the book Animal Farm.

Old Major, is the Karl Marx of Animal Farm, and he produced the idea of Animalism which would be the same thing as Communism. Then the animals took over the farm and were all content for a short time, only for things reset to Mr. Jones’ time of reign. Napoleon the new leader takes advantage of the power of the farm. He makes things worse except he fools the unintelligent animals by sprouting propaganda of things being much better than in Jones’ time. The power of such a simple thing as animals in a farm makes this pig become a corrupted fool.

Corruption has taken place all over the world at anytime. Whether it was banning a site from the internet or making sure no one sings a certain song. It could be as extreme as limiting the amount of children you may have or the amount of food you can eat. Truly it’s communism gone mad. The refined version of Communism gives a single person power and along with the power that comes, corruption follows.

The idea of absolute power sounds wonderful until you truly gain it. The nicest man in the world could posses complete power and even he, would go mad. The only nice thing power does is for the soon to be corrupted person who holds it.