How Is Napoleon Presented In Animal Farm

The main character in Animal Farm, Napoleon, had many interesting traits but as the story progresses he evolves into a different character. In the beginning of the novel, Napoleon is not much

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.

‘Animal Farm’ is a novel based on the Russian Revolution, about a group of animals wanting to rebel against man. Snowball a smart, fair and strong leader gets ruled over by Napoleon, an unfair and selfish leader. This was the first error in the rebellion. Snowball would have defiantly made a better leader than Napoleon. The reasons for this are that he educated the animals, had future economic plans and knew how to keep a fair and smart community.

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).”

Napoleon uses propaganda and lies he spreads with Squealer, that all his actions are put forward to the benefit of ‘all’ the animals. Squealer speaks,” Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back!” He creates fear within the animals of Mr.Jones coming back again, and tells them, “Napoleon is always right.” He sees Snowball as a threat to his power, he spreads his words “Comrades, do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!” He tries to make false information and lies to the common animals. The external conflict between Napoleon and Snowball over power are shown, due to Napoleon’s greeds. Although the common animals of the farm found Snowball more likeable, the nine loyal dogs of Napoleon frightened the animals and strengthened the power of Napoleon allowing him to become the leader after Rebellion. Napoleon is unsatisfied of any ideas rooted from Snowball, brings out his specially trained dogs to go after Snowball. Snowball who does not have a physical force of his own like Napoleon’s, is chased out of the farm allowing Napoleon to become the one and only leader of “Animal Farm”. I feel empathetic to Napoleon some of the time, but to this extent I wouldn’t agree or connect with Napoleon. He uses and exploits other animals for his benefit, and untruly spreads propaganda to keep in power.

One of the main characters of Animal Farm is an allegorical parallel of Joseph Stalin. Napoleon is the pig that emerges as the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. He represents

Napoleon was seen by the rest of the animals as a force to be reckoned with; he was most certainly a dictator and was very narcissistic and self-centered. Additionally, he brain washed his supporters to obey his every command. On the contrary, Snowball understood the responsibilities that come with great power and was ready to accept them. He always made decisions based on what he thought would benefit the farm.

He gained control over Animal Farm by eliminating his opposition, Snowball, leaving him to function as a dictator. The puppies he secretly raised and trained as his bodyguards grew into ferrous dogs that slaughtered animals that defied their leader, eradicating anyone who got in his way. Napoleon brainwashed the other animals through the spread of propaganda, making them believe that all he had done was for their wellbeing. His corruption was evident in his disregard for the Commandants which according to the book was the “Unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live by forever after.” This character can be likened to Joseph

A theme that is conveyed in Animal Farm by George Orwell is “too much ambition can lead to bad outcomes”. George Orwell writes, “They added that Snowball had privately admitted to them that he had been Jones’s secret agent for years past. 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.” In other words, Orwell writes a scene in the book about Napoleon slaughtering animals who had been traitors and had done something against the policies of Animal Farm. The

After the first couple chapters, we see that the animals have taken over the farm and are running it very efficiently also, we see that Napoleon and Snowball are butting heads on every situation on how the farm should run and it builds conflict. So, Napoleons way of solving this is to chase Snowball out and make up stories about Snowball and he blames him for everything that goes wrong. After doing this, the other animals start to really respect Napoleon and they start to give him full control of the farm, but little do they know, he is only manipulating them and that this is only the rise of the

Napoleon gives the animals someone to blame when things go wrong and that would be snowball. Napoleon gives the animals something to admire which would be himself. When anything good happened, Napoleon would most likely make it seem that it was all because of him. When a person gains control over something, they will end up wanting more and more control which was exactly what happened to Napoleon. Benjamin, who was smart and represented Orwell, saw this all along.

In the novel “Animal Farm” we see the effects of what someone’s leadership can do to all of the animals in the farm. Throughout the novel we see the conditions of the farm under Jones’s rule and also in Napoleon’s rule. Readers can agree that both were not exactly good at treating their animals the right way. Nonetheless both of their leadership have similarities and difference between them and are evident throughout the novel. The similarities between Jones and Napoleon is pretty much almost the same.

Snowball is a boar. The boar appoints himself to be a leader, alongside Napoleon. Snowball is very respected on Animal Farm. Snowball and Napoleon have many disagreements. Eventually, here is an extreme power struggle between Napoleon and Snowball. This threatens Napoleon’s power, so he runs Snowball off the farm worth vicious dogs.

He had a dream that all animals lived together happily and lived in equality. He taught the song “Beast of England” to stir up rebellion. The animals accepted the concept animalism, but Old Major died just three days later. There were three of his disciples: Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer. They had learned his main principles of animalism and taught the principles to the other animals. One night, the rebellious animals took control of the farm as Mr. Jones, the owner arrived home drunk. They rename the farm Animal Farm and established equality. The most devoted member was Boxer, the strongest horse in the farm and he adopted his personal maxim “I will work harder” (Orwell, 48). When it first started, Animal Farm prospered as Snowball developed literacy and improved the infrastructure. Napoleon “…took them away from their mothers, saying that he would make himself responsible for their education” (Orwell, 15). When Jones came back and attacked the farm, he was defeated by Snowball who studied tactics on Julius Caesar. However, Napoleon and Snowball were having discussions that would affect the future of the farm. Snowball wanted a windmill but Napoleon strongly opposed the plan. There was going to be a vote on the plan and as soon as Snowball finished his speech, Napoleon whistled, and the nine dogs came chasing at Snowball. Napoleon changed his mind about the windmill and started building it. Boxer adopted his second maxim “Napoleon is always right” (Orwell, 46) and Napoleon had his leadership unquestioned. One day, after a storm, the windmill topples. Although the humans believed that the wall was too thin, Napoleon claimed that Snowball did it. From then on he became the scapegoat of Napoleon’s mistakes and was made a villain by Napoleon. He staged trials for animals that opposed him and they admitted to crimes that they didn’t do.

At the very beginning of the book, Napoleon seems to shows no care in what the animals do and gives Snowball the leadership role and also a public speaker/inspirational speaker role. Napoleon is seen as to the other animals "not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way…" (Orwell 16). This foreshadows Napoleon 's future behavior because later on in the novel, he takes on more