How Is Napoleon Too Ignorant 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

At first the animals questioned Napoleon but couldn’t fight back for the fear Napoleon struck on them with his newfound army. Napoleon came to power with his oppressing rule and the animals could do nothing but watch everything they believed in be slowly taken from them.

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

First of all, Napoleon is unjust, does not demonstrate good leadership qualities and has poor reasoning. Napoleon has just held executions for animals he considers traitors and scares the animals while killing without reason. Orwell shows this as he states how, "the tale of confessions and executions went on until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones," (Orwell 84). This proves how Napoleon is unjust and doesn't care for the animals at all. He is only concerned with the efficiency of the farm and does not show sympathy for the animals, but treats them as though they are machines only there to do his work. Similarly, another example of Napoleon being corrupt as a leader is when he is becoming more secretive and separates himself from the other animals on the farm. For example, "Napoleon inhabited separate apartments

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.

One reason Napoleon remains in charge because of causing the animals fear. Napoleon uses the nine of dogs as his bodyguards. In Document B, the dogs were vicious towards the animals and would kill anyone who disobeyed Napoleon. The dogs would slaughter the animals like they were never “comrades”. Napoleon also used Farmer Jones coming to the farm to scare the animals. The animals dreaded Jones coming back. As in Document C, Squealer says, multiple times, “Surely, comrades there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?” This rhetorical question always reassures the animals to do what Napoleon says. The fear of the dogs and Jones returning persuades the animals to do as Napoleon commands.

Napoleon is trusted greatly by the rest of the animals, that when he starts misusing his power many animals do not notice it. For example, Squealer is easily able to get the rest of the animal to agree with Napoleon. Squealer thinks that if he helps Napoleon, he will gain a small amount of power also, but he does not notice that he is just being used. Most animals are mad at Napoleon because he got rid of Snowball and arguing that Snowball helped a lot at the Battle of the Cowshed, but Squealer argues “That was part of the arrangement”(54). This shows that Squealer was trying very hard to get everyone happy with Napoleons decision. Napoleon was also able to brainwash the dogs. Napoleon used his power to raise an army of dogs to become mean and violent like him. The dogs do everything they are told. “ The dogs shrieked for mercy when Boxer pinned them to the ground”(56). After this fight the dogs got really hurt but they still listen to Napoleon and try their best to do everything hey are told. These are a few ways how Napoleon brainwashes everyone to gain more

They eventually began suspicious about the things that he had changed. The biggest ones he had changed was “Four legs good, two legs bad” to “Four legs good, two legs better”. Which after this is had a big impact on the farm also changed the whole idea that humans were bad and animals were better. Also the commandment “All animals are equal” was drastically changed to “All animals are equal but some animals are better than others”. After all these changes the animals still followed Napoleon and didn’t really stand up and say how the felt about

Once Napoleon did this successfully he began to use his power of being the only leader a little too much. He started changing many things that had a very strong meaning to the farm, which was ran by the animals for the animals. The things that he was changing really only had significant meaning to him and not so much everybody else. For example, when Napoleon began to walk on his hind legs he changed the commandment, “Four legs good, two legs bad” (Orwell 34) to “Four legs good, two legs better” (Orwell 134). This only had purpose to him because he was the only animal,along with the other pigs on the farm, that successfully learned how to walk upright.

Finally, he walked on his hind legs and became what they swore never to become. Humans! Napoleon was significantly changed after breaking all of the seven commandments and took all the power of Animal farm to be for himself. When Napoleon moved into the farm house that’s when things really started to change.

In the book “Animal Farm” one of the characters that caught my eye the most was Napoleon . Napoleon caught my eye because he was a power hungry , greedy , and corrupted (a bad leader ). First , Napoleon was a power hungry pig in the book “animal farm” because he changed who he was and how he acted to maintain his power .

Under Napoleon, the animals have little choice what happens to them. They have to do what he says or hey will just die in that circumstance. The same was true under Jones. To me, which really means that little has changed. Napoleon is also similar to Mr.Jones because he is using the animals work to make comfortable life for himself. He cares mainly about himself and the pigs of course and doesn't care if he's being fair to the other animals. But Napoleon to me is kind of the nice guy the animals get treated fairly well, well taken care of. They get rewarded by Napoleon of extra portions of food after battles or during celebrations. But by living in the house with the pigs Napoleon creates a different kind of way of how he runs things with the animals it's kind of unique and weird a the

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.

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.

Napoleon ,Hitler ,Stalin all dictators.Napoleon Both the pig and human were ruthless.But he is shown as a tyrant also known as stalin.He gained power through, propaganda, manipulation and fear. Napoleon. In Orwells writing Napoleon is portrayed as a Berkshire boar who always seems to get his way. He is not really a talker and who uses sneaky plans to get his way.This is mirrored by Joseph Stalin.