Author's Note: This piece is about what I see in control. I mixed some fact in with opinion. It is the blend of the two that I think really makes it my writing. I feel like control is sometimes regretful and I think of that throughout this piece. Hope you enjoy.
Control is something everyone wants, but one thing that is still unsure is how the person will proceed in getting that power. Some are more graceful than others and some are ruthless rulers. The only problem is you can almost never predict who those ruthless rulers will be. They come and go like waves in an ocean and sometimes overrule all and drive everyone back on their heels. They will push to the limit to get what they want but not what they need. These are the people who will overrule people with not what everyone else wants, but the threatening aspect of their character.
Control is what draws the line between dystopia and utopia. Although our world is not a dystopia, it is creeping more and more towards it every day with the thought of complete control. People will do anything for control and some may go to drastic measures to get it. For example when Snowball got chased away but Napoleon's dogs, Napoleon was willing to kill the leader that was there at the time so that he could have single control. Another incident is when Napoleon and all of the farm animals were at the annual Sunday meeting and Napoleon's dogs bit the pigs in the ear and dragged them to Napoleon's feet and were murdered on the spot because they were in touch with Snowball and had to do with the planning of the downing of the windmill. There were plenty of other animals that had been in touch with Snowball and had also been murdered on the spot. This is a proven point in the book at which Napoleon will do anything for power and this was the method of scare. He is vicious in his actions as a message to all of the other animals to not go against anything he say or that's what will happen to them.
When people are so possessed to be in control, nothing that is good comes out. They become not the people that they are, but the people that they become possessed to be. They don't have free will at times and control gives them free will. Control is something that possession controls and feeds upon. People can be so powerful if they just get a hold of control and once they do, possession takes the advantage and grasp the person so tightly that they can't let go. Napoleon is so possessed at some times, that instead of doing things for the better, he does things that will make him more powerful. For example, even though he thought that the windmill was a good idea inside, he went against it because Snowball liked it and he had all of the plans and everything. The windmill would make everything better on the farm but because he wanted all of the power, he disagreed with Snowball. Possession can take control of anything and everything. It takes you in and never lets go and yet people still try and challenge it.
Control can always be a good thing but with a quote by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton said "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." Control can always help but at times, it can corrupt. It is the point that power can always lead to a world of confusion and hurt. For example, in the book when Napoleon took complete control, he started slowly turning against the seven rules that had been set at the end of the rebellion against the human race. They were:
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.
Napoleon slowly started to fade towards these rules as not bad, but good and eventually changed a lot of them to fit his standards of what he wanted to live like. Complete control corrupts and leads to no good. Control can grasp you into what it wants to bend you into what complete control is. Everybody even though they have seen all of the warning signals, have ignored what it really means and push right through the barriers of right and wrong. They are too ignorant to what might become of them and go right through without reading the warning that has just been cast upon them as they pass the barrier.
Control makes everyone want. They get what they want with control but is it really what is the best? People get so pulled into what is at hand and what the quick way out will be. Control then pulls them in and doesn't let go. They cross the barrier of good and evil so obliviously that they don't look at what could become of them. The stakes are set and are never set lower than what is complete control.
