How Does Napoleon Use His Power In Animal Farm

Napoleon's Reign “Many animals are often brainwashed to believe’ If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right’”(Orwell 56). In George Orwell's Animal Farm this phrase is instilled in the animals minds and several start to believe it is law. Animal Farm is an allegory becuase Manor Farm represents Russia and all of the events that happen on the farm represent things that have happened in Russia's history. The animals on the farm have had it with the humans so they rebel and take over the farm. The main character is a tyranistic pig named Napoleon.

Also, Napoleon is characterized indirectly in the story through his thoughts speech and actions. Through all his actions, the readers are led to understand that he was a cruel dictator like leader. We learn that power corrupted him and he ended up ruining the animals’ future instead of building a better

The animals go from a society in which they believe to be unacceptable to a life which becomes even worse than it began. The worst part, however, is that the oppression stems from an animal himself. Napoleon, the totalitarian leader, changes the founding ideas in which their ideal society was formed in order to increase his control, but continuously tells the animals that things are significantly better than before. Eventually, “the lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the country.” The animals allow this to happen because they placed their trust in leadership and were wrongly educated on the circumstances. They are fed lies until they no longer remember their history, which allows the oppression to come full circle.

Perhaps the most significant one of all was Napoleon throwing out the second most powerful animal on the farm, simply because he was a threat to his own reign. The animals were so engrossed by Napoleon that they fully supported the termination of Snowball, solely for the reasons given to them via Napoleon. “Napoleon produced his schemes of his own, but said quietly that snowball would come to nothing.” (54). At such an early point after the pigs power was established, Napoleon had already started to create a divide between Snowball and himself. When he told the other animals how horrible for the farm Snowball supposedly is, the farm would start to trust him more and therefore depend on his more.While gaining the animals trust more, he simultaneously gained more power for himself, for with Snowball gone all the power he had would now be his. “He had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a maneuver to get rid of Snowball…Now that Snowball was out of the way, the plan could go forward without his interference.”(58). Napoleon is willing to do anything to gain and maintain his own power, regardless of how it is done and who will be effected by it. As shown by this windmill incident, Napoleon will use any instance to further manipulate the other animals, just to gain even one more sliver of much desired

Napoleon who is demanding and overpowering pig always put himself first he believes that he Animal Farm leader and praises himself for things he done for the animals. He is an example of dictatorial leader because he is greedy for power and is also corrupted. Napoleon doesn’t show interest in the welfare of the animals. In the book

Due to his ultimately corrupt nature, Napoleon resorts to unethical methods to forcibly obtain authority over the rest of the animals (i.e., instilling fear through the dogs and expelling Snowball). However it’s not Napoleon’s

In the last four chapters of Animal Farm everything goes downhill as Napoleon reaches the climax of his power and evil. Napoleon becomes so enveloped in himself he loses all care and sympathy for the other animals. In chapter seven he forces animals to confess to crimes they didn’t commit and then has his dogs brutally murder them. In the next chapter he leads the animals into a battle with another farm killing and injuring many more. So many animals’ lives are ruined due to Napoleon and his self-centered ways.

When the pigs come into power, they soon discover how effective the barbaric way of ruling is. Animals who confesses to defying and betraying the authorities are publicly executed through the gory means. Napoleon trains the dogs on the farm, from youth, to become callous and vicious, killing machines. Napoleon deprives the dogs from their youth to create instruments of fear. The pigs demonstrate the consequences for those who dare resist the government and impose fear on those who dare try to oppose the pigs.

Animal Farm is created as an egalitarian utopia when the animals overthrow Mr Jones. An ambitious pig, Napoleon exploits this utopia and seizes power through violence. Readers view this objectively through the text’s third-person narration as shown by this quote. ‘Napoleon himself, majestically upright…he carried a whip’. This quote shows, from an objective viewpoint, how Napoleon elevates himself to a higher status, ‘majestically upright’ and how he reinforces this with the threat of violence, ‘he carried a whip’.

Some of the other animals on the farm thought that there was no good reason to kill any animal that met with Snowball. Clover thought that the animals would create a society of freedom and equality when they overthrew the humans on the farm, but instead they created a world of “slaughter and terror” (Orwell 86).The commandment was later changed to no animal shall kill any other animal without cause to protect Napoleon, keep his best interest in mind and to justify his actions. If the system of checks and balances was in place the commandment could have never been broken. Napoleon abused his power in

If people in the past did not face their fears and stand up for what is right, then things like slavery and segregation would still be major issues facing modern American society. In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, many people are quick to blame solely Napoleon for the harsh events that take place on Animal Farm. However, the blame for the failure of Animal Farm rests on much more than one pig’s poor leadership. Animal Farm failed because the lower animals choose to neglect their responsibility to take action when things go wrong.

Life under the rule of a dictator People like to rule their own empire in different ways. Some people, like our own President Barack Obama, chooses to rule using democracy, while other leaders, like Kim Jong-Un, prefers to use dictatorship. In Animal Farm, Napoleon chooses to rule as a dictator. He fights against his opponent, Snowball for control of the farm. Napoleon is able to gain and stay in power by overthrowing his competitor, changing rules to fill his satisfaction, and obtaining strong military control.

67. By this point, Napoleon is the sole leader of the farm. Which no one to challenge him he decides to break one of his very own rules for his and his species comfort. This action is significant because it shows that the pigs now truly saw themselves as more privileged than the others, and with so much power, decided to take advantage. My third and final example occurs at the end of the book, in which the book says ”No question now what had happened to the faces of the pigs.

Throughout the book of Animal Farm the theme of leadership and corruption is continuous. The animal’s who have the biggest part in both of these major themes are the pigs. Napoleon, for example, takes over as the leader in the beginning of the book and later his leadership methods turn corruptive.

Napoleon eventually becomes virtually indistinguishable from the cruel humans that he fought against in the novella, Animal Farm, by George Orwell. The pigs’ ideals that are first established when the animals overthrow Mr. Jones, slowly evolve as the pigs gain more authority over the other animals. Simultaneously, the Seven Commandments that were established at the founding of Animal Farm suffer from multiple revisions. The progression of the pigs’ characters shows the theme of Orwell’s story and his views on how one is affected by power. By examining the evolution of the Seven Commandments, one can see how unchecked power leads to the corruption of both a leader’s ideals and morals.