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Leadership Log 1 Stewart!

Hannah

In Animal Farm and 1984, George Orwell showed many leaders, both good and bad ones. A good leader should be intelligent and courageous. He or she should also have integrity, but the leaders George Orwell wrote about tended to not be very admirable in the ways they acquired power or what they did with it. In Animal Farm, Snowball was a powerful speaker, and Napoleon used force to get the other animals to believe what he said. In 1984, the Ingsoc Party brainwashed its people to believe what they said. The qualities that these leaders possessed were many of the same qualities a good leader has; they were persuasive, they knew what they wanted, and they knew how to get it. The problem with these Orwellian leaders was that they used these qualities to help themselves rather than help the general population. They're good leaders because they get things done, but tended to be bad people.! Things I can take away from the leaders in Animal Farm and 1984 are to be a trustworthy and respectable person. The apathy that leaders in Orwell's novels felt towards other people was reected in their abuse of power, and they were apathetic because they put themselves before the greater good. Leaders should be overall admirable people, and Orwell's novels, particularly Animal Farm, shows good leaders but generally awful people. I think the texts we read in this unit was a good example of how to be leaders, like persuasiveness and a drive for success, but we should aim for an opposite result than what Orwell's leaders did.

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