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GCSE English Literature · key term
The misuse of authority for personal or group advantage, often involving the abandonment of professed principles.
Used by AQA, Edexcel and OCR
Paper 1, Paper 2
Dishonest use of authority for personal gain, such as taking bribes or selling public offices.
The misuse of authority for personal advantage, often involving the betrayal of stated principles.
Paper 1
Build an argument about power and corruption rather than retelling the pigs’ actions. Explain what each privilege reveals about the changing relationship between rulers and workers.
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Revise: Power and corruptionCorruption occurs when the pigs use that authority to benefit themselves instead of protecting the equality promised by the Rebellion.
Paper 1
The abuse of authority or abandonment of principles for personal advantage.
Revise: Power and corruptionCorruption begins when the pigs turn their responsibility for organising the farm into a right to take more than everyone else. By the end, the animals have removed a human master only to acquire animal masters who behave like him.
