"Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely," there are many examples of this in the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. In the beginning of the story, a pig named Old Major kind of has power over the rest of the animals. He slightly corrupts their minds into thinking that they could survive without humans. After Old Major's death the pigs take over, they ran the humans of the Animal Farm and gained a little more power than Old Major had. Toward the end one of the pigs began twisting the rules and slowly gaining absolute power.

As the story began, Old Major had some power. He used this power to corrupt the animals into thinking that there could be a life without humans. "Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human...