Napoleon Animal Farm Essay

This overthrow was a premeditated thought, as he had previously taken a litter of dogs away from their mothers, “kept them in a loft…and the rest of the farm soon forgot their existence.'; Napoleon had previously calculated how to obtain ultimate power, and eliminates all of the thoughts or animals opposed to his regime.

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

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.

Orwell uses Napoleons character to illustrate the Russian leader Joseph Stalin. Orwell’s dislike for the leader is clearly noted. He criticizes the Soviet leaders by depicting them as power hungry pigs.

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

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 interpreted snowball as a criminal and blamed for every bad thing that happens on the farm., it is stated in Document D “No better than a criminal” “Every night, it wa said, he came creeping in under cover of darkness and performed all kinds of mischief. He stole the corn, he upset the milk-pails, he broke the eggs”. As Snowball was being blamed for every bad thing even when someone say he was brave in the battle of cowshed, squealer the pig tells everyone that bravery is not enough, loyalty and obedience are more important. Napoleon also uses porpangander to envision himself as a fearful and brave leader. In the battle of Cowshed, Napoleon is perceived as a leader and fearful as it is state in document E “Our leader, Comrade Napoleon” “ when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with cry of “Death to Humanity!” and sank his teeth in jones’s

In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, a major turning point in the novel was when Napoleon used his secret police force, his dogs, to exile Snowball. Snowball had previously been trying to improve the animal’s lives for the future by building a windmill. After Snowball was exiled, Napoleon became leader and everything immediately went amiss. Orwell stated that: "Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer- except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs" (p.86). In other words, no one was benefiting from the animal’s labours apart from the pigs and the dogs because the amount of authority the dogs and the pigs, especially Napoleon had, was corrupt. Frighteningly, if Snowball had been

He took part in writing the original 7 commandments and the animals are easily convinced that he is a traitor and has been in league with Jones. When reading Animal Farm one can really begin to appreciate Snowballs leadership and his understanding for what's best for the farm and its residence. George Orwell has Snowball run off to show that even

Manipulation is a key attribute to the corruption of Napoleon and is portrayed through his use of fear and superior intelligence to his advantage. Fear is conveyed through the vicious guard dogs and these dogs keep order using intimidating actions ‘the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again’ this shows the control over the animal through the

Napoleon treated the animals poorly with very little appreciation. Napoleon treated the animals like the human, Mr. Jones and even worst. Napoleon used his power and intelligence to work a lot with very little reward. Napoleon convinced the animals that the extra work they did was for themselves and not the humans. Napoleon used his power and authority to execute animals.

It really shows how underdogs, if they put their mind to exceed, its not hard to accomplish. For such a small quote, there is a lot of deep meaning behind it. When snowball says ‘comrade’ he is trying to make everyone feel equal and that everybody is a friend on the animal farm with four legs. Orwell explains just how easy it is to tell how bad animals want things to happen in the farm through

At such a young age, Napoleon had been such a great leader to the dogs. Napoleon represented the dogs’ father, mother and everybody they ever knew. “They were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately (23).” By Napoleon raising the dogs from a young age, the dogs trusted and did everything that Napoleon said. All of the other farm animals know that Napoleon raised these dogs himself and that the dogs would only obey Napoleon. Although the dogs did not know life with Mr. Jones, it would seem that Napoleon has brainwashed them to think that the Rebellion means freedom and prosperity. The dogs were loyal to Napoleon and kept him safe at all times. The dogs were also by Napoleon the same way that they