Comparing Napoleon's Rise To Power In Animal Farm And Jean-Claude Duvalier

Napoleon uses education and learning to help him obtain and maintain power. Napoleon seems to use the Proverb “A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth

Meet Napoleon, a pig that tries to act as a human in order to pursue his lifelong dream as a farm’s dictator (not really). Welcome to Animal Farm. Napoleon is a pig in a farm called Animal Farm, after the animals decide to rebel against their farm owner Jones, they change the farm’s name from Manor Farm to Animal Farm. This story goes on to Napoleon deciding to use his intelligence as an advantage to lead the other animals. He writes 7 commandments that the animals need to followed. Napoleon’s power could have been checked after he broke these commandments, by deciding to give the pigs all of the milk and apples, by beginning to sleep in the beds of the farmhouse, and by killing two sheep.

In chapter 7 Napoleon began punishing and executing the animals who he believed to be traitors, by forcing them to confess to “crimes” that they committed. Through this, it is obvious that although the pigs goal is to keep humans out of animal farm, and make sure that the animals are safe, it is causing a sense of fear and terror in the animals. This also shows how the animals have no freedom of

Think of some of the world's most prosperous civilizations of all time. Rome, England, and Russia might come to mind. How did these nations rise to such supreme power while simultaneously keeping their people in order? All of these empires share a common force- fear. In animal farm Napoleon and the pigs used fear to remain in power over the other pigs, whether this was expressed by the common message that other animals weren’t capable, how the farm was turned against Snowball, or Napoleon's use of the dogs to gain and then remain in power.

The novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell, was an allegory about the Russian Revolution in which the author used a farm and it’s members to symbolize major characters and their actions. In this composition, I will reveal to you many of Joseph Stalin’s important contributions and how they relate to the actions of Napoleon from Animal Farm. I will break this topic down into the following three parts, their rise to power, how they maintain power, and how they use and abuse their authority.

There is the brutal “dictator”, Napoleon who always got his way. He used propaganda and terror to intimidate the animals, until they could not resist. “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” (Orwell, 43). This was the final change to the animal’s Seven Commandments. This was the ultimate example of how the pigs were controlling the remaining animals. The first part of the quote makes it seem like all animals are equal, creating a positive view of the commandment. It is yet to be known that the end of the quote implies

Napoleon, the leader, becomes corrupt and selfish. For instance, Napoleon enforces The Seven Commandments which state laws like; “whatever goes up on two legs is an enemy”

In the novella Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, fear plays a significant role amongst the animals. Fear is seen when the pigs utilise the dangers of man. It is also seen through the violent nature of the dogs, which help the pigs maintain control of the farm. In addition, Napoleon uses his power to cause the animals to fear questioning him and to convince them to follow his rules. These mechanisms help make fear more powerful within Animal Farm.

When Napoleon permits the pigs to sleep in the farmhouse’s mattresses, this is stated. ” … but also slept in the beds, and Boxer passed it off with the usual ‘Napoleon is always right!’…’it says, no animals shall sleep in a bed with sheets’ she announced finally” (Orwell 79). This exposes that not only did Napoleon contravene the commandment established by Old Major, but he altered it so it can benefit him and the pigs. When the animals are recapping on how life in the animal farm is presently, George Orwell says, “It had become usual to give napoleon the credit for every successful achievements and every stroke of good fortune” (Orwell 93). This shows napoleons rebellious leadership because he is disobeying the seventh commandment “all animals are equal.

To changing the idea Animalism was based upon which was all animals are equal. The final Commandment being “All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal.” The pigs were more equal than the rest of the animals because they had better rations and less work. All of these actions made by Napoleon demonstrate his corruption

But as the story progresses the pigs, mainly Napoleon, took more and more power, soon he was above all the animals on the farm. On page sixteen the Seven Commandments were written on the barn wall by Napoleon. He wrote “ No animal shall kill any other animal”. But on page fifty-one he had over eleven animals killed by other animals. Obviously that went against the rules.

Napoleon starts out as a leader, someone to help better the farm, but as the book progresses he begins to let the power rush to his head. He begins taking certain things as “privileges” and even begins to change the laws behind the other animals’ backs. He finally reaches his highest point when he dresses himself in Jones’s old clothing, walks on two legs, and carries a staff in his hand (Orwell 117). Also, while all the animals are working extremely hard, earning hardly any food, and getting little-to-no leisure time, the pigs are doing absolutely nothing to create food for themselves. In fact they even begin to put on weight while the other animals are starving.

The pigs raised the dogs as his own personal guards against all the other animals and they were able to relax while other animals did all the work. They provided themselves with more food and luxuries because they thought they were more important and did more work than others. The decision was made, “...the order went forth that all the windfalls were to be collected and brought to the harness room for the use of the pigs. At this some of the other animals murmured, but it was no use” (Orwell 26). This shows how the pigs and dogs got more privileges than any other animal, even though they do less work. The animals that are threats to Napoleon are killed by the dogs or sent to be slaughtered without that animal having any knowledge of it. Many say how the pigs have earned everything that they get or how they are now the new “leaders” of the farm and can do anything if an animal disobeys them. On the other hand, the pigs should not take away food from the other animals just because they believe they are better or that they deserve it somehow. The inequality the pigs show between them and the animals is large and goes against the commandments, or rules, they made in the

The irony of it all is that the very one who suggested that the animals rebel against their master was another boar named Old Major who was as well educated as the pigs who would lead after him, but his vision was to have all of the animals live together as perfect equals. This idea of equality was however completely thrown out the window when somewhere along the line Napoleon came up with an idea to create his own totalitarian dictatorship within the farm and began testing the intelligence of their fellow animals. One such test that Napoleon ran was taking every last drop of the milk on the farm and keeping it for the pigs with his reasoning being that the pigs needed it to support their brains in the “strenuous” work that they had to do, this from an outsider’s perspective sounds downright preposterous, but for the animals on Animal Farm this would be just assumed true as they have no knowledge that would support this idea or that would contradict it so they take the pigs’ word at face value and move on. With no opposition coming from any of the animals on the farm the pigs were steadily gaining more and more luxuries while the rest were slowly getting worse and worse conditions as time went on, and unfortunately for the common animals this change did not have any end in sight as well as leading right back into conditions in which the pigs are the masters, and the animals the slaves, conditions that had been the case under their farm’s previous name Manor

Totalitarianism was a form of government in which a single individual controlled all aspects of life. Using there ridiculous propaganda and rigorous rule, Napoleon portrayed himself as being superior to all the other animals on the farm being labeled leader while everyone else was referred to as “comrade”(pg3). There was inequality between the pigs and the other animals such as how the pigs lived in the farm house sleeping on beds while the other animals had to sleep in the pastures. The pig known as Squealer was responsible for propaganda, and would often change the commandments of the farm so that they would benefit Napoleon. For example at one time a commandment read “no animal shall drink alcohol” (pg. 75). But soon after Napoleon had drank abundance and almost died the commandment was changed to “No animal shall drink to excess” which made it seem as