This passage discusses three important lessons from George Orwell's novel Animal Farm: 1) Respect and treat people/animals equally even in power, as shown by Napoleon's unequal treatment of the animals; 2) Stand by your choices and say what's right, as the animals were afraid to confront Napoleon's wrongdoings; 3) Absolute power corrupts, as Napoleon made selfish decisions without input from others. The tyrant Napoleon exemplifies not following these lessons, demonstrating their importance.

1. Animal Farm- 3 Important Lessons<br />Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell that shows the historical figures from the Russian Revolution, and was written during the Second World War. This novel has many different lessons and morals behind it. Respect and treating your people/animals equally even in power; stand by your choice and don’t be afraid to say what’s right and what’s wrong; and absolute power corrupts absolutely. These are the three most important lessons that you can learn from reading this satire filled book. <br />Respecting and treating your people/animals equally even in power is one of the many lessons you learn from this exotic book. The tyrant Napoleon had all the power after Snowball was chased out of Animal Farm. He didn’t treat every animal with respect and he wasn’t a very gratifying leader. An example of this is clearly shown on pages 57 to 62. On those pages, Napoleon brutally kills many of the animals that mentioned Snowball in any good way. Napoleon also didn’t treat everyone equally. He put himself in the highest position, and then he put the pigs after him and then the rest of the animals. The pigs were treated with higher quality than the rest of the animals, which was not very fair to them. Napoleon also changed the commandments without asking anyone else. He thought about what he wanted and changed them in that way. This is another piece of evidence that tells us that he wasn’t a very equal leader. These manners exhibit that Napoleon was not an exemplary leader at following that lesson, which led to disaster at the end of the novel. <br />Stand by your choice and don’t be afraid to say what’s right and what’s wrong is another lesson that is learnt from this novel. Lots of people/animals did not do what they thought was right and were always afraid to confront their beloved Leader, Comrade Napoleon. The beginning of chapter 8 (pg 63) embarks upon the sixth commandment. Some of the animals remembered that the sixth commandment stated, “No animal shall kill any other animal”. This wasn’t followed in the hearing of the pigs or the dogs, which meant that they just disobeyed one of the seven commandments. Clover asked Benjamin to read him the sixth commandment, but Benjamin refused because he didn’t want to meddle in such matters. This means that he knew that something was up, but he was too afraid to face Napoleon. Clover asked Muriel to read him the sixth commandment and it was different than what he had remembered. Someone had changed it to “No animal shall kill any other animal without cause”. Clover and some other animals thought that the last few words must have slipped out of their memory and didn’t bring it up for consideration. They all knew that the commandments were being violated, but they were too afraid to say anything about that. The animals in the farm were not very brave and they just went along with everything Napoleon did and said, which led them to having an unsatisfactory life. <br />Absolute power corrupts absolutely is the last, but not least important lesson that is learnt from this novel. The tyrant Napoleon always made decisions without asking the rest of the animals on the farm about there opinion on it. For example, he was strongly against the whole windmill idea when Snowball bought it up, but then after Snowball wasn’t on the farm anymore, he decided to bring the windmill idea up again. This idea was good for the farm, but he didn’t ask the rest of the animals on what they thought about it. When the windmill was demolished, Napoleon put all the animals back to work straight away. He didn’t even bother asking the animals when they would prefer to start making the windmill. Also, Napoleon made them work during winter, which meant that they were working through immensely cold weather. Napoleon also didn’t bother giving them more food and giving them more time to rest. All he did was think about him and the benefits that would come to him, and proceeded with that in mind. In this novel, Napoleon had too much power, which led to him making decisions for himself without considering what others thought, but thanks to that, we learnt another valuable lesson. <br />Animal Farm is a satire filled novel that has very intense meanings behind it. It emphasizes on the people from the Russian Revolution and he uses the animals in the novel to give messages to everyone who reads it. Three important lessons that this novel has taught me is that you should respect and treat your people/animals equally even in power; stand by your choice and don’t be afraid to say what’s right and what’s wrong; and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The autocrat Napoleon has been the one who has been teaching us most of these lessons by not following them. He didn’t follow them, which led to the rest of the animals not knowing the difference between the pigs and the humans. This novel has indubitably made us learn one’s lessons affectively. <br />