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    This document discusses examples from literature that illustrate how not everyone is cut out to be a good leader. It analyzes the leadership of the pigs in Animal Farm, who change rules to benefit themselves and overwork the other animals. It also references the satirical artwork "The Plumb Pudding in Danger" which depicts greedy world leaders dividing up the globe. Finally, it summarizes how the leaders in Ready Player One fail to address societal problems, forcing people to escape into virtual reality. These examples demonstrate that while leadership can be learned, some lack the qualities needed to prioritize citizens over their own interests.

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    This document discusses examples from literature that illustrate how not everyone is cut out to be a good leader. It analyzes the leadership of the pigs in Animal Farm, who change rules to benefit themselves and overwork the other animals. It also references the satirical artwork "The Plumb Pudding in Danger" which depicts greedy world leaders dividing up the globe. Finally, it summarizes how the leaders in Ready Player One fail to address societal problems, forcing people to escape into virtual reality. These examples demonstrate that while leadership can be learned, some lack the qualities needed to prioritize citizens over their own interests.

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    This document discusses examples from literature that illustrate how not everyone is cut out to be a good leader. It analyzes the leadership of the pigs in Animal Farm, who change rules to benefit themselves and overwork the other animals. It also references the satirical artwork "The Plumb Pudding in Danger" which depicts greedy world leaders dividing up the globe. Finally, it summarizes how the leaders in Ready Player One fail to address societal problems, forcing people to escape into virtual reality. These examples demonstrate that while leadership can be learned, some lack the qualities needed to prioritize citizens over their own interests.

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    This document discusses examples from literature that illustrate how not everyone is cut out to be a good leader. It analyzes the leadership of the pigs in Animal Farm, who change rules to benefit themselves and overwork the other animals. It also references the satirical artwork "The Plumb Pudding in Danger" which depicts greedy world leaders dividing up the globe. Finally, it summarizes how the leaders in Ready Player One fail to address societal problems, forcing people to escape into virtual reality. These examples demonstrate that while leadership can be learned, some lack the qualities needed to prioritize citizens over their own interests.

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    Some people are not cut out to lead. It’s something that not everyone can do, or

    do well. You can learn how to become a good leader, but it takes a lot of time. Some

    people are thrown into leadership with little to no training on how to do it properly. Not

    every leader is a good leader. Some people are just not cut out for leadership. Prime

    examples of this include the pigs in Animal Farm, the popular satirical piece The Plumb

    Pudding in Danger, and some of the strong leaders in the popular novel Ready Player

    One. Not everyone is cut out to be a leader, fact and fiction have a tendency to prove

    that.

    My first point is that the pigs in Animal Farm aren’t just bad leaders, they are also

    bad morally. They are constantly changing the rules to benefit themselves. “Once again

    some of the animals heard this with certain bewilderment, but Squealer was soon able

    to convince them that that their memories were at fault” (Orwell, George) If the rule

    change is brought up to them, they gaslight their citizens into thinking it was always that

    way. This causes some of the animals to lose respect for the pigs. The tricky tactics the

    pigs use are rude and show disrespect for their animal citizens. Another example of

    poor leadership from the pigs is how often they make their citizens work. The other

    animals work from dawn until dusk, every day of the week, just to please the pigs. What

    does all this hard work get them in return? Meals that might as well be scraps, and the

    worst possible sleeping conditions. This is just because of how greedy the pigs are. The

    pigs sleep in the Jones’s old house, with heat, good food, and comfortable beds. The
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    pigs always eat good, hearty meals, and drink a lot of alcohol. The pigs are really

    greedy, just like the world leaders when The Plumb Pudding In Danger was made.

    The historical satirical artwork, titled The Plumb Pudding In Danger, satrises that

    some leaders are greedy. The artwork shows a British redcoat and Napoleon Bonaparte

    slicing into plumb pudding, which just so happens to look like earth. (Gillray, James)

    This was made in a time when the British, French, and the Americans were dividing the

    world’s land amongst themselves. The redcoat is taking a much larger piece than

    Napoleon, which says something about how much land the British tried taking. These

    leaders were not as great as they were made out to be, especially since they were

    really greedy. The biggest problem was these bad leaders had too much land to control.

    If you have too much land, it can get to be too much to take care of. This can become

    too much for anyone to handle. With too much land and not enough power, or people in

    power to help you, your kingdom will not succeed. Your kingdom will develop too many

    problems, and the people might revolt. This leads me to my final point.

    My third and final reference is the popular science fiction novel Ready Player

    One written by Earnest Cline. This novel takes place on planet earth in the year 2045,

    and the quality of living is absolute garbage. “At first, I couldn’t understand why the

    media was making such a big deal of the billionaire’s death. After all, the people of

    Planet Earth had other concerns. The ongoing energy crisis. Catastrophic climate

    change.Widespread famine, poverty, and disease. Half a dozen wars. You know: ‘dogs

    and cats living together… mass hysteria!’” (Cline, Earnest) After this passage, the novel
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    goes on to say, “Like the outbreak of some new killer virus, or another city vanishing in a

    mushroom cloud. Big stuff like that.” (Cline, Earnest) Clearly the leaders of this time

    weren’t doing a very good job at keeping things under control anymore. People’s quality

    of life is going down the drain, hence the popularity of the novel’s fictitious video game,

    the ironically named OASIS. The world is so bad, that the people living in it need an

    escape from it. The worst part is that the book’s narrator, Wade Watts, says all the

    things in such a relaxed manner, proving that this stuff is normal in his day and age.

    There are many reasons that people are not cut out to be leaders. There are

    people out in the world that are greedy, morally wrong, and not smart enough to lead.

    People from history, and different works of literature prove that. Even in satirical works,

    there are leaders who don’t do a good job at leading. Like any other form of fictional

    writing, satire always has a little bit of bias to it. Not everyone is intended to lead, and

    that’s okay. If you know that you can’t lead well, then learn how to! Try to make things

    equal for everyone, don’t just make life easier for you. Not everyone is cut out for

    leadership.
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    Works Cited

    Cline, Ernest. Ready Player One. 1 ed Ballantine Books, 2011.


    Gillray, James. The Plumb Pudding In Danger. 1902, Link Accessed 16 Nov. 2022.
    Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Penguin Random House, 2020.

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