Examples Of Power In Animal Farm

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.

Napoleon adjusting the commandments in his favor helps him gain power. Napoleon changes one of the seven commandments to “four animals good, two legs better” (134), when the “pigs [start] walking on [their] hind legs” (132). Napoleon then changes another commandment to “No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets” (67) so he can benefit from it and not look like a bad guy. The major commandment that changes is “All animals are equal” (25) to “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” (134) to show Napoleon has majority of the power. By changing the commandments, Napoleon gains

Animal Farm is an allegory of the Russian Revolution, it is based on certain aspects of the Revolution. For example, revolting the government, all of the animals on the farm group together to overthrow their cruel owner because they believe they are not being treated as well as they should be. When the animals come into power after overthrowing their master the pigs consider themselves to be the dictators on the farm, snowball one of the pigs starts to plan building a windmill to give power to the farm but Napoleon is not happy that snowball is leading the animals in thought, so he starts blaspheming him, the animals are agreeing for Snowballs idea but now Napoleon is outraged. Napoleon lets out a high pitch squeal and out of nowhere a pack of dogs he raised from puppies ran after Snowball and chased him into

One of the techniques used by Napoleon is, brainwashing the animals. The 7 commandments were expected to be followed by the animals including, Napoleon. Whenever Napoleon broke the rules, instead of feeling guilty, he had Squealer change the commandment to suit his wrongdoings. "Some of the animals remembered - or thought they

Napoleon uttered a high-pitched whimper and four pigs were dragged to his feet squealing with pain and terror. This proves Napoleon uses fear to control the animals because

The first few changes went against the commandments, such as he canceled Sundays morning meetings, he and the other pigs decided that they were going to move into Mr.Jones home and he also started engaging in trade with neighboring farms, an example of this, “Napoleon announced that there would be work on Saturday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half” ( 92). Napoleon started slowly changing things for the worse. Some of the commandments he started breaking was things such as pigs sleeping in beds, drinking beer, and using money and he even made the song beast of England illegal. The pigs started lying to the animals and giving themselves special privileges, even though equality between the animals was incredibly important and was the causes of the

Animal Farm is a written allegory story by George Orwell. The novel is about what happened during the political time of Russia; the Bolshevik Revolution and show the betrayal of Joseph Stalin. This novel shows a lot of symbolism throughout and the main one is how Napoleon and Joseph Stalin are similar.

In history, there have been many leaders that manipulated their citizens to maintain a high profile. One case of this is during 1917 when the Russian leader, Joseph Stalin, overthrew the government. George Orwell wrote an allegory called Animal Farm which criticized the ways Stalin manipulated his citizens to maintain control. Throughout the story, Napoleon stays in power through the use of revisionism, indoctrination, and intimidation.

His main way of getting people to listen to him is by using his dogs to force people to do the required task or else they will get their heads bitten off along with the sheep saying ¨four legs good, two legs better¨ (Orwell, pg. 134) to help reinforce the idea that pigs are superior to the other animals. Another way Napoleon uses fear to gain the control over the animals at the farm is he threatens them with starvation. Both of these methods used by Napoleon were also used by Joseph Stalin to gain control over the masses. If society gives in to these methods then they are just giving more power and control to the higher power. Napoleon also threatens the animals with saying jones is going to come back and that is a reference back to when Stalin told his people that if they didn’t do what he wanted the old way of living was going to come back to them. With that much power and having all those people listen your commands can make you feel like you are unstoppable and greedy.

Every time Napoleon lies, the animals and the reader loose trust in him. For instance, when Napoleon told the animals that he would send Boxer the horse to an animal hospital, he did not really mean it. The animals soon realized that Napoleon was sending boxer to “the knackers. (Orwell, 55)” Napoleon, as always, sent squealer to explain everything to the animals.

Napoleon exploit's the animals inferiority complex. When he changes the seven commandments to justify his actions, the animals are doubtful as their memories tell them that the seven commandments were different. However Squealer tells them that they are wrong and it is just a figment of their imagination. The animals think that if napoleon says so then he must be right and so let him get away with it.

How would you show you deserved power? How would you keep that power? In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, a character by the name of Napoleon obtains and keeps power. He would lie to the other animals, scare them, and manipulate the animals. One way Napoleon obtained and kept his power is by lying to the other animals.

For example, the pigs would lie about Snowball’s misdeeds to the farm, and use him as a scapegoat to take all the blame. Furthermore, they retold stories about Snowball to make him look cowardly and horrible, while making Napoleon more heroic and brave. This is evident in the story as Squealer, one of the pigs said, “And do you not, too, that it was just at that moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with a cry of Death to Humanity and sank his teeth in Jone’s leg” (Orwell 90). He changed up a lot of the story, and it he successfully made the other animals believe it, which only made them more loyal to Napoleon. That’s not all, they even changed the rules to best fit their ideals. One example of this is that one of the farm rules was that no animal is allowed harm another animal, But that changed when the pigs slightly added a few words. In the story, it said, “Muriel read the Commandment for her. It ran: No animal shall kill any other animal without cause” (Orwell 98). This way, the pigs killed many other animals thought to be traitors, and used that fear to have more control of the farm. These slight change in rule ultimately entirely changed how the farm works, with the pigs now as pretty much their absolute

A second example of Napoleon lying to improve his situation is when he continues to alter the commandments of Animalism to fit his needs. This happens after Napoleon makes a display by having animals confess to things that they did not do and making their actions punishable by death. One thing that would have stopped this was that a commandment of Animalism stated No animal shall kill another animal. The

“When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any animal had anything to confess… And so the tale of confessions and execution went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet and air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones” (93). The story advances and Napoleon’s true colors are gradually emerging. As Napoleon’s façade of a sympathetic and considerate leader fades away, his enforcement tools, the ferocious beasts, give the animals no choice but to obey.