Analyze the theme of power and leadership in Chapter 1 of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

The entirety of
the novel explores theof leadership and power as we watchcorrupted by and disobeying the very
principles he and the other pigs instituted to rid themselves of a ruler (like the one Napoleon
eventually becomes).

Chapter one demonstrates the beginning of the fall of
one leader or the power of one as he (Mr. Jones) stumbles through his duties because of his
drunkenness. This demonstrates that a leader can easily become unaware, which is indeed what
happened when the last ruling Romanov was in power. 

Asshares his vision, he
does so with the idea that he won't be around long and that his idea is not necessarily for
himself, but for a future. A good leader is a persuasive one. He had planted this idea, the
animals almost subliminally took hold of it and before they know it (...) rebellion has
begun.

Old Major may have been looking out for his own, but the problem of
leadership comes when one who seeks power just for the sake of having power doesn't think about
all possible consequences.

Reading some of Thomas Jefferson's writings will
show consideration that went into the idea of power to the people and the corruption of mankind.
Could an evil leader rise in America? Is it possible? Very.

positioned this
speech of Old Major's in the beginning to cause readers to consider the power of leadership.
Should you follow someone blindly just because there is promise in their words, or should you
check their motives, history and background before positioning them with such
power?