Essay On Napoleon's Use Of Power In Animal Farm

Napoleon, who is the leading power in the farm, had complete control of the animal’s minds, being able to convince them that “Snowball [had] done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year” (Orwell 70). Napoleon’s need for complete power was able to be achieved from the trust he had established from the other animals, making them not question him and follow whatever he said.

Shortly after the Revolution, Snowball comes up with the plan to construct a windmill to make the lives of the inhabitants of Animal Farm easier. Napoleon hides in the shadows per se until the puppies that he has taken and trained are old enough to act as a police force. Once they are old enough, Napoleon has the dogs drive Snowball off the farm. He then takes credit for the idea of the windmill and proceeds to claim that he, not Snowball, won the award at the Battle of Cowshed. Napoleon then informs the animals that Snowball was an enemy and was a threat to Animal Farm. The animals are swayed by his propaganda and are fearful of his police dogs; this is what keeps him in power.

In the beginning of the book the farm was run by Jones, who owned the farm, until old major said his speech about animalism and equality. Napoleon was a young pig when the revolution happened and liked the way of animalism. Animalism was focused on having a working normal life with every animal on the farm being equal. After old major died, snowball took lead over

At first things started off pretty well; the harvest was very good the first year and the reading and writing system had helped some, but had limited success on others. In time, the leaders of Animal Farm started to have mixed feelings. Snowball and Napoleon were in constant disagreement. The animals had meetings every sunday and one meeting consisted of Snowball’s plans to build a windmill and the decision of who would be the leader of “Animal Farm”. Napoleon wasn’t very good with speaking so he tried to distract Snowball from his speaking so that his plans won’t go through and so the won’t be the leader. “At last the day came when Snowball 's plans were completed. At the Meeting on the following Sunday the question of whether or not to begin work on the windmill was to be put to the vote. When the animals had assembled in the big barn, Snowball stood up and, though occasionally interrupted by bleating from the sheep, set forth his reasons for advocating the building of the windmill. Then Napoleon stood up to reply. He said very quietly that the windmill was nonsense and that he advised nobody to vote for it, and promptly sat down again; he had spoken for barely thirty seconds, and seemed almost indifferent as to the effect he produced. At this Snowball sprang to his feet, and shouting down the sheep, who had begun bleating again, broke into a passionate appeal in favor of the windmill. Until now the animals had been about

Can a leader manipulate you to believe everything he or she says? In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, Napoleon develops a cult of personality, as he became a dictator of Animal Farm. Napoleon took control of the Farm as he began to establish powerful and caring traits, those as would be shown in a leader. Important aspects of Napoleon becoming a dictator can be attributed to his cult of personality by him being charismatic. Napoleon uses manipulation,deception, and being hypocritical.  Napoleon uses other animals to support him in his decisions for the Farm. The actions shows Napoleon's personality and speech help support his plans..The desire to move ahead can cause change in opinion and mislead you to believe in the wrong path.

The power hungry pig that leads the animals as a totalitarian dictator into an oppression that stated “All animals are equal/ but some are more equal than others”

Napoleon has wanted power over the farm for awhile and will do anything to keep it. He takes Jessie and Bluebells newborn puppies and trains them for the main aspect of his fear campaign. He teaches them to do what is right for the farm and to only think about the Animal Farm’s future. He uses the puppies to eliminate his nemesis. Snowball comes up with the idea for a windmill on the farm, Napoleon opposes it and uses his trained dogs to chase Snowball off the farm. With Snowball gone, Napoleon declares himself the ruler of the farm. “They dashed straight for Snowball… he slipped through the fence and was seen no more. (Orwell, pg. 53 chap. 5).”

At such a young age, Napoleon had been such a great leader to the dogs. Napoleon represented the dogs’ father, mother and everybody they ever knew. “They were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately (23).” By Napoleon raising the dogs from a young age, the dogs trusted and did everything that Napoleon said. All of the other farm animals know that Napoleon raised these dogs himself and that the dogs would only obey Napoleon. Although the dogs did not know life with Mr. Jones, it would seem that Napoleon has brainwashed them to think that the Rebellion means freedom and prosperity. The dogs were loyal to Napoleon and kept him safe at all times. The dogs were also by Napoleon the same way that they

The revolution of Russian was nothing short of interesting but through the point of view of George Orwell the reader is able to have a deeper understanding of the cruelty and treachery. This is especially represented by the main character Napoleon(pig leader). Napoleon shows the correct progress of the revolution through his own change from a fair, background leader to an unfair dictator.

Animal farm is a clearly an allegory of the Russian Revolution. Napoleon, the pig, is the leader after the rebellion in the Animal Farm. Just as Joseph Stalin did, Napoleon also used military force that included the nine loyal attack dogs he had to terrorize the other animals while consolidating his authority at the same time. In the way he uses craftiness, Napoleon seems to prove that he is more deceitful compared to his counterpart, Snowball. In this case, Snowball must represent Leon Trotsky the other pig that tries to challenge Napoleon’s power in order to gain control of the farm after the rebellion. Just like the real life Trotsky, Snowball is also passionate, intelligent and eloquent in his speech. However, when

After the revolution, Manor Farm was renamed to Animal Farm and the Seven Commandments of animalism were established to ensure equality. The pigs became the supervisors of the farm. However, the rivalry between two pigs Snowball and Napoleon made Napoleon use force. Napoleon ordered his dogs to chase out Snowball from the farm in order to become the only leader. Napoleon’s selfishness and corrupt power made him commit different atrocities against his own comrades. As a result, the lives of the animals except for the pigs and dogs were of tyranny and inequality. Napoleon became worse than their former human master. The animals spent the rest of his life almost starving and working in the construction of the windmill that was destroyed several times. The abolishment of Sunday morning meetings, the public execution of animals, and the drinking of alcohol were the most important changes that facilitated the transformation of animal farm, and Napoleon as the most responsible for the downfall of the utopian vision of Animal Farm.

“Outline the ways in which Napoleon obtained and maintained power on Animal Farm. What message is Orwell conveying to the reader through these processes?';

His evil nature allows him to persuade all the animals into believing that Snowball has always been the enemy. Napoleon’s leadership ends up turning into a dictatorship. He has dogs follow him twenty-four-seven, enslaves the animals into building the windmill, always altering the commandments to favor him, and engages in trade with neighboring farms. All the pigs don’t do any work and get to live in the house, while the other animals stay in the dirty old barn. Napoleon’s vision is to only improve the conditions of the farm if it benefits him.

What defines a good leader? How they treat people? Or if they have good visions for the future? Leadership does not necessarily gain its definition as having good intentions but more as getting the job and going it efficiently. In Gorge Orwell’s Animal Farm, the pigs lead the rebellion against Farmer Jones but eventually Napoleon takes charge and leads them all. He directed the other animals on the farm and much got accomplished from the time he took charge to the end of the book. Napoleon was not a nice leader, but he was very efficient. Even though Napoleon did not have any moral qualities and broke all the rules of originally made for Animal Farm, he prospered as did the rest of the farm. Napoleon was an effective leader on Animal Farm because

Therefore Napoleon wanted to advance the farm by building the windmill to produce electricity and do other stuff, but they just turn out to be horrendous. The working conditions were gruesome and the hours were too protracted. As a result, he does the same to Boxer, a horse whose incredible strength was key to the farm’s success. Meanwhile, Snowball starts to teach the animals to read, while Napoleon takes a group of puppies to educate them. Later in the story when Snowball is addressing the animals the puppies that Napoleon had “educated” chased Snowball away from the farm.