Social power includes the ability to control and influence which is ultimately used for personal benefits. Having influence others means being able to make decisions and it makes easier to favour themselves who are with those power. Human-beings want to improve their circumstances and when the authority reaches to influence others, they just abuse it for their own benefits. In ‘Animal Farm’, this is clearly shown with the pigs. The windmill represents the pigs’ manipulation of the other animals for their own gain. Although food and warmth are needed immediately, the pigs exploit the other animals and Boxer by persuading them to work to build the windmill. The pigs manipulates the other animals by announcing that the first collapse of windmill is under responsibility of Snowball, as this prevents the common animals from doubting the pigs’ abilities and it ultimately make the pigs to be more powerful and richer. Besides, the transformation of the windmill to commercialize shows the greed of the pigs again. Similarly in the film ‘The Big Steal’, the ability of manipulation leading to personal gain is clearly shown too. In the scene where Danny signs to buy Jaguar from Gordon Farkas, it symbolizes Gordon Farkas’s manipulation of Danny. With the knowledge of how to treat Danny, Gordon Farkas cheats about the Jaguar and asks his staff to intimidate himself and Danny to sign the car. Both of the text and film show that power is being misused for personal gain. In short, often authority is misused and abused when the ability to influence is ready.
