Polybius and Animal Farm

The theory of Polybius, which declared that descendants of the aristocrats had fallen into folly due to their greed of richesiness and power and was what degenerated the society into oligarchy, overlap some resemblance with the decadency and devolvement of Napoleons regime portrayed in sensual nurture. The governments depravity in Animal turn and the relationship amidst society and humans reflected in Polybius theory of political bicycle were similar. Polybius asserted that noblesse dark into oligarchy when leadershiphip fall into putrefaction and greed. The pigs shown in Animal Farm were degenerated and governed for the wellbeing of themselves rather than for the others. Therefore, retrogression of the society was due to the subversion of the aristocrats. The pigs that came up as leaders in Animal Farm paralleled the corruption and degenerations of magnanimousness and oligarchy accounted by Polybius. \nPolybius saw the cause of degeneration of aristocracy and o ligarchy was because rulers ceased their responsibilities to rule the company with logic and reason. Such degeneration led aristocracies to turn into oligarchies. This nevertheless happened when the rulers stopped ruling for the benefit of the society and indulged good-time excess, They toss out their responsibilities some to greed of wee-wee and unscrupulous money making, others to unwiseness in wine and the convivial excess which accompanies it (Polybius, Hist. 6.8). Polybius believed that when rulers became corrupted, they took the idea of delightful their own greed with entertainment, pleasure, and luxuries and gave up their responsibilities of ruling reasonably and logically. These types of rulers gained wealth immorally and lacked ethical reasoning, which Polybius stated were signs of corruption and degeneration of an aristocracy into oligarchy. Polybius strongly stated that the aristocracy was degenerated and corrupted into oligarchy when the descendants of the leaders pu...