Napoleon was an exquisite character in the book: Animal Farm. He overpowered all the animals, and they followed. He was acknowledged as the leader, and the creator as their “Animal Farm”. No humans, no using human-made items, and never lay where a human has laid. Napoleon’s rules were simple. However he grew to the point where he wasn’t even following them, and was changing them as life went on. Animal farm included many instances where Napoleon was commanding as a dictatorship rather than a democracy. A ruler has his little guards and his reason being. Napoleon was just there to address the situation when they took over the farm, and he was whom had the authority to overrule the animals. As the book dragged on with Napoleon changing his mind constantly, the animals grew to attention that he was their leader, end of story. …show more content…
Napoleon used his crisis to rule the land. In multiple scenarios of the book, he was ruling by the minute. When one animal would point out that he was sleeping in the bed of the farmer, he would say that “ he wasn’t sleeping with any bed clothes” even though the animals knew that the 10 rules written on the barn said otherwise. The animals grew to anger when each time they would argue with Napoleon, they would check that list where the information was located and it would be changed by what he had said. Ruling as a dictatorship rather than a democracy in most instances, can really change the relationship amongst the leader and his people. Napoleon was leading as a dictator when he would change what he said to get the animals for him rather than against him. Napoleon was an untrustworthy leader who went against everything he had told the other animals to abide by. Napoleon would even threaten each animal who would ever argue or go against his will. He always said he would punish them with death. Which can cause a very distressed farm in most
Napoleon uses the animal's lack of knowledge to change the commandments to his side. “...ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS,”(Doc A, Chapter 10). Napoleon uses the animal's knowledge to his advantage because he manipulated the law of Animalism so he can stand higher up than the other animals. At the beginning of the book, Napoleon makes the animals chant, “Four legs good, two legs bad,” towards the end of the book he makes the animals chant, “Four legs good, two legs better!...”(Doc A, Chapter 2-3 and Chapter 10).
Napoleon, the revolutionary leader, was a power hungry and abusive pig. When the animals wouldn’t listen he had to have them follow his rules and visions. He brainwashed the animals into believing whatever he said, threatened them and used popular animals to convey his desires. As dictatorship was the most prominent form of governing during the revolution, the leader used techniques to influence the animals’ opinion.
He gave them the false inspiration and hope that they were working for to stay free. This is what Hitler did to the Jews who were able to work, he had in his concentration camps say “work to be free”, but in reality he did not have the intention to set them free. The reason as to why the animals did not rebel was for two reasons. One being that they just were not educated at all and the other reason is because Napoleon has an immense amount of fierce dogs around him at all times. This made him an intimidating pig. The animals were oblivious to the corruption around them that he shrugged off a fellow animal dying by another simply because Napoleon said it was fine and the Commandments said that it was exceptional. The dumbest of the animals was a horse named boxer. Because he was the strongest of the farm animals, what he said greatly influenced the others animals, and because he was on the side of Napoleon the other animals followed. There were many times were the animals would have revolted without Boxer present, but after he died, it was too late to turn back. He inspired the animals by constantly saying, “I will work harder”, and, “Napoleon is always right”. This often concluded questions regarding Napoleon’s style of handling business.
Throughout the history of mankind, there is a clear repetition of poor leadership. Often, this leadership starts off as an innocent gesture before it takes a turn for the worse. In Animal Farm by George Orwell Napoleon represents a dictator. The book is a political allegory of the Russian Revolution and uses pigs to portray the roles of humans. Napoleon, the main character, shares characteristics with Joseph Stalin. Through the course of the novel Napoleon shows how power can change someone for the worst. Through the course of the book we see Napoleon go from an equal to a superior figure. The other animals go from seeing him as a friend to seeing him as a ruler, this causes the animals to follow him despite his actions. The animals are all following blindly, not realizing the outcome of his demands. He finds ways to corrupt their minds, ways that he wasn’t even aware of in the beginning. It appears that they don’t know how to live without following. They follow Napoleon who shows characteristics of bad leadership. As the book progresses he leads the animals to follow blindly, leading to deception and disillusionment.
Someone, or some pig in the case of Animal Farm, who thinks they are better than everyone else will try to get to a position of power of leadership, so other people will see that too. A good example can be found on page 95, “The general feeling on the farm was well expressed in a poem titled, Comrade Napoleon… Napoleon approved of the poem and caused it to be inscribed on the wall of the big barn, at the opposite end from the Seven Commandments. It was surmounted by a portrait of Napoleon, in profile, executed by Squealer in white paint”. This bit of text displays Napoleon’s large ego and how that affected the way he ruled the farm. Napoleon thinks he is better than everyone else as a leader and as a pig, so he decided to try and get all the other animals to worship him and the pigs. This explains why as a leader he was always putting his interests and well-being
At this point, Napoleon is now understanding the hard work that goes into running a farm. Napoleon decides to conversate with humans that can buy the needed supplies from the town stores. When the animals heard about the newly made agreement, they were stunned. Animals that have any relations with humans were seen as a traitor. Napoleon then
Napoleon solidifies his leadership by manipulating the animals and talking to them one by one. In the beginning of the book when Snowball is trying to persuade the animals to join him on his ideas, Napoleon talks to the animals individually and tries to get them to see things his way. (The windmill situation for example). Meanwhile, Napoleon used his force to maintain order on the farm. With the mandatory help from the fierce dogs, Napoleon had them scare the farm animals into submission.
Napoleon is manipulative to get what he wants, and is very controlling. When he doesn’t like something that the animals have done he gives punishment. When the hens rebelled, he cut off their food proportions. Let me just add that this is also cruel to us. Napoleon constantly is changing some of the commandments. For instance, the one where you can’t sleep
Some of the animals saw this and soon realized what was happening, a dictator was ruling them and the very thing that they feared was repeating and Napoleon was just like Mr.
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
Napoleon also force the animals to work by incorporating propaganda. If the animals would not follow his rules, they would either be mauled by his nine dogs or there would be a different consequence. Towards the denouement, the story came full circle. The same conflict that the animals faced in the beginning of the novel did not go away. They still were at the loss of their freedom and only at the end of the story did they realize their small portion of freedom was stolen.
From the very beginning of the novella, Napoleon emerges as an utterly corrupt opportunist. Though always present at the early meetings of the new state, Napoleon never makes a single contribution to the revolution—not to the formulation of its ideology, not to the bloody struggle that it necessitates, not to the new society’s initial attempts to establish itself. He never shows interest in the strength of Animal Farm itself, only in the strength of his power over it. Thus, the only project he undertakes with enthusiasm is the training of a litter of puppies. He doesn’t educate them for their own good or for the good of all, however, but rather for his own good: they become his own private army or
Power and control are things in which many leaders thrive off of and they will do anything to get their hands on it. Napoleon was a pig on Animal Farm who made it his priority to secretly begin taking control of the animals who represent the naive working class in society, by making sure they were told what they want to hear, even though Napoleon would later go against what they had been told. The belief that “All Animals Are Equal” (Orwell, 4), was introduced in the beginning of both the book and the movie along with a list of seven commandments the animals were to follow (Orwell, 11). However, throughout the course of the story, Napoleon began to alter many of these commandments with help alongside him, a pig named Squealer. The commandments had become altered to where Napoleon began to accept and mimic the behaviors of a human such as engaging in trade (Orwell,
At the beginning of the text, the character ‘Old Major’ states that in order to move forward the animals must “be [in] perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle”. When Old Major dies, the animals are left deprived of a leader causing Napoleon and Snowball to fight. Napoleon wins by manipulating the other animals and hence becoming the “leader”. As the novel progresses, Napoleon continues to gain power and soon appears as a dictator, by oppressing the animals. He used force to brain wash and manipulate the animals, making them work
It is hard to imagine a pig as a ruthless dictator, but that is exactly what happens in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell. In the book, animals on a farm overthrow the farmer because he was not treating them well. The animals take control of the farm and it starts out as a democracy, with the pigs being the natural leaders. There were two main pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, but Napoleon chases Snowball off of the farm. By the end, Napoleon resembles the farmer more than an animal. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, Napoleon is a pig who goes from being democratic to being a dictator. Orwell shows this when Napoleon makes all the decisions himself, harshly treats the animals opposing him, and by showing how selfish Napoleon is.