Authors often present the idea in their novels that the more powerful a character becomes the more likely they are to be corrupt and if they gain absolute power that they will become absolutely corrupt. A text that illustrates this, is "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, which shows the journey in which the animals of the farm rebel and eventually gain control of Manor Farm. The pig's growth of absolute power is strengthened by their …
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…through different events in the novel like the expulsion of Snowball they gain more and more. However as the pigs and Napoleon rise to absolute power they create a farm full of lies and absolute corruption. Orwell uses the progression of the pig's power and their corruption, when they eventually became everything they were rebelling against, as a lesson to the readers that a uneven spread of power and an unplanned revolution will ultimately fail.