How Did Napoleon Abuse His Power In Animal Farm

     There are many ways in which Napoleon obtains and maintains power on Animal Farm. Napoleon obtains power fundamentally by elimination of all opposing him. He obtains and maintains power by turning other animals weaknesses into his opportunities. He also uses his education and knowledge to obtain and maintain power, as well as his ability to defeat the resistant feelings in other animals. To obtain and maintain power Napoleon uses various degrees of manipulation. He also uses persuasion and propaganda, brainwashing techniques and violence to

As seen throughout the plot, Napoleon slowly becomes more isolated and distant from the other animals. He had received special treatment and more privileges than others. This was all due to the abusive of power, manipulation, and deceiving lies. Napoleon was given too much power and the animals were not intellectually capable of taking matters into their own hands. The animals were too ignorant because they’re only animals; this can be easily overlooked. Although they all speak english, they still have their animal tendencies and tend to behave the way an animal does. Napoleon breaks the animal tendencies, furthermore results in him starting to resemble more like Mr. Jones. He is given absolute power in which power corrupts.

Firstly, Napoleon uses manipulation to generate a cult of personality in the Animal Farm. Napoleon directly shows how he manipulated the animals as he believed “...[weaker] animals on Animal Farm did more work and [would] receive less food than any animals in the country” (92).Napoleon shows how he only cares about himself as he uses the animals. He would make the animals do labour to support himself and to be powerful.The animals would agree to everything that he said because they believed that Napoleon wanted the best for them. Napoleon made the animals believe that they were in better conditions even though “starvation seemed to stare them in the face.” (50). He did a great job to hid the reality from the animals. His thoughts and

While Napoleon was gaining power over the animals he had to get rid of other politicians and opposing citizens. He did this by raising dogs that would strike fear into citizens and end up chasing Snowball out of the farm making Napoleon have total power. “Four young porkers…uttered shrill squeals of disapproval…. But…the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep, menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again.”(document B). This made it so the animals were too scared to oppose or overthrow Napoleon. He also made it so no one could challenge him politically. He did this by having his dogs kill masses of people so no one would dare have different opinions and speak out against him. “When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice, Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess”(document B). The mass murder made it so Napoleon had total control of the farm. The violence of Napoleon’s leadership caused the animals to fear to have their own opinions and forced them to conform to Napoleon’s

This leads to the animals to finally discover his true colors. After Snowball was ran out of the farm all public meetings were canceled. When Napoleon announced, “ that from now on the sunday morning meetings would come to an end. They were unnecessary and wasted time. In the future all questions related to working on the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs presided over by himself.” , he is no longer allowing the other animals input on situations. When they were under the care of Jones they still has some say on what went on. Now under Napoleon's authority they are left with no say so on what goes on. This shows he only cares about what he has to say. Now that he has stripped the animals of their opinions , his judgement is the only thing that goes. This builds to Napoleon's ego and how he assumes he is above everyone else. He doesn’t care for anyone else unless it somehow benefits him and this shows he abuses his power as

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.

After the dirty deed of murder was done Napoleon accused Snowball of being a traitor working with Mr. Jones trying to have him Mr. Jones reacquire the farm. The great ideas of Snowball were taken by Napoleon and claimed to have made his own like the Snowballs design of the windmill. The work on the farm increased and since it is a democracy where everyone agrees to make decisions, Napoleon tells the people he will do what is best for them. It starts to create a divide among the working animals and the pigs who were the brains of the operation.

After reading this novel it opened my eyes to how things can change over time also how people can begin to worship one person and not process thoughts for themselves. In this book there was many followers and only one leader thought-out the book. George Orwell made everybody at the beginning of the book equal but towards the end things started to change. In Animal Farm, the author George Orwell uses selfishness and manipulation of the leaders and by the followers being persuaded to contribute to the loss of freedom and equality in order to show how people can become so dependent on one person.

Throughout your life, have you ever heard of a leader doing awful things to the people and citizens of his/her country? Animal Farm by George Orwell proves that having absolute power will always corrupt a leader, as shown by the character Napoleon. Napoleon, the main leader and dictator in Animal Farm never really followed the true laws and rules of Animalism. Although in the beginning of the story, he is introduced as a keen boar, with only the interest in following out the last wishes of the wise boar Old Major, we soon see that he believes the pigs are better than all the other animals. An example of this is when the cows are milked for the first time.

The fear of the animals made it possible for Napoleon to get what he wanted. In “Animal Farm” the author states how the animals were scared to speak of what's wrong: “Some of the animals remembered - or thought they remembered - that the Sixth Commandment decreed 'No animal shall kill any other animal.' And though no one cared to mention it in the hearing of the pigs or the dogs, it was felt that the killings which had taken place did not square with this.” (Orwell, Quote 16). Animals were so scared of Napoleon that his dog’s will kill them, if the animals said one word against Napoleon they will die, so the animals never took a stand for each other, and were scared

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.

In Animal Farm, Napoleon first showed early signs of abusing his power after Jones was expelled from the farm. “As soon as the pups were weaned, Napoleon took them away from their mothers, saying that he would make himself responsible for their education. ”(35) We could see from the start that he wanted more power and needed something to back him up when he told his brief speeches. Orwell added this part into the book to show how Napoleon was using his power to break the bond of child/puppy to its mother. By breaking the bond the dogs will grow up in a corrupt manner with Napoleon which he later uses the dogs to benefit himself once again.

Napoleon has broken many laws and made some of the worst cruel laws that affected the animal community at first the original plan was to help every animal as much as they could but Napoleon decided to become an arrogant leader and terrorize Animal Farm he is outnumbering himself with bodyguards which are dogs so when someone wants to step up and overthrown him he can release the dogs and kill him. In the early pages of Chapter 5, Snowball was suppose to be the leader after he shared his bravery in the Battle of the Cowshed, he has the ability to make better speeches, and make better ideas to benefit the community. After, Napoleon became jealous and decided to use the dogs against Snowball to chase him off possibly wanting to murder him this is one major part when Napoleon used the dogs to

In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, the animals in a farm start a revolution against Jones, the farm owner, since they felt that they have a lack of freedom. When the animals take over the farm, they began to create their own society with the seven commandments and Napoleon and Snowball as their leaders. However, Snowball was kicked out of Animal Farm by Napoleon and Animal Farm ran into some problem like when the windmill broke for the 2nd time. As a result, many animals on the farm died. This shows that power can easily be corrupted, because of the selfishness of Napoleon, the benefits the pigs have over all the other animals, and the amount of rights given to the other animals by Napoleon.

Napoleon ran Animal Farm like any other dictator would, as a totalitarian state. It was manipulation, using others and his personal credibility that got Napoleon into his position as dictator of Animal Farm. Violence, propaganda, and the willingness of the other farm animals were major factors supporting his reign. Whilst ignorance at some point turned to stupidity, you cannot blame the other animals for wanting to turn a blind eye and go with popular public opinion, rather than voice their opinions and be killed for it. Lastly, it was Napoleon's personal