Napoleon Monologue Animal Farm

The animals want to escape humans, but what happens when one of their own turns on them? The story Animal Farm by George Orwell, Is about the animals on Mr. Jones's Manor Farm. The Oldest pig is Old Major, and he describes a dream he had. His dream was of the animals rebelling against the humans. A few days later, Old major dies in his sleep and Two new pigs take power, Snowball and Napoleon. Then make the rules of Animalism called the seven amendments. Napoleon wants to be in full control, so he uses guard dogs he raised to banish Snowball and then lies and says Snowball is a “bad guy”. Napoleon continues to change things until he is the unquestioned ruler of the farm. The theme corruption can change people. The story shows this through Napoleon's dialogue, actions, and appearance.

Napoleon, who is one of the more intelligent pigs on the farm is force to take authority and eliminate opposition. Napoleon takes “nine sturdy puppies” (35) and becomes “responsible for their education” (35) while raising them up. The puppies soon become “fierce-looking wolves” (53) which he uses them to intimidate and petrify all the animals. Napoleon’s guard dogs “dash straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws” (53). Snowball “running faster than ever”

Napoleon’s disastrous reign only supports Orwell’s idea that revolutions always fail, tyrants are only replaced, and a new government is never established. Napoleon is a cruel ruler who, fearful of Snowball’s return, executes all the animals who “confess” to being in league with Snowball. Napoleon uses Squealer as a propaganda spreader to the other animals of the farm. Squealer tells the animals how wonderful life is on the farm, when in fact they

After reading the book called Animal farm, it is plain to see that Napoleon is a very sly animal. He is clever —clever enough not to play much a role in the initial rebellion. It is only after the animals have rebelled that he took the leadership role. But did he actually do the right things to win the power?

The undeniable greed Napoleon possesses can only be fulfilled by giving the other animals the illusion of bettering themselves by not questioning his logic: “Boxer, who had now had time to think things over, voiced the general feeling by saying, ‘If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.’ And from then on he adopted the maxim, ‘Napoleon is always right,’ in addition to his private motto of ‘I will work harder’” (Orwell 60). Because Animal Farm’s audience predominantly consists of working class citizens, they begin to feel sympathy for Boxer since he cannot recognize Napoleon is exploiting him exclusively for his personal goal of becoming a puissant leader; therefore, animosity towards Napoleon develops in the audience. Considering the animals promptly welcome Napoleon’s promise of a better life, they work towards exhaustion, unknowingly fueling Napoleon’s greed: "All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings" (63). Although the animals working for Napoleon are unaware he is gradually becoming more human and willfully betraying his fellow animals for his own benefit, it is evident to the audience that Napoleon is corrupt. As Napoleon cunningly achieves power, his greed continues to grow, the same as a totalitarian leader’s:

One of the many awful things he did was he proclaimed that whoever killed, snowball would be rewarded. He would also kill any animals he believed were working with Snowball, breaking the commandment that said no animal shall kill another animal. He also formed one single commandment after breaking all of the other ones, which was “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS” ( 194). This shows that the pigs finally established dominance over the animals, and no longer believed that all animals were equal. Another action that showed that Napoleon was taking dominance over the other animals was when he took away some of the dreams that at the beginning was once promised to them, such as “The luxuries of which Snowball had once taught the animals to dream, the stalls with electric light and Hot and cold water, and the three-day week, were no longer talked about. He said, lay in working hard and living frugally” ( 185). This shows that the animals were promised great things, but this all changed when Napoleon's desire for power clouded all of his previous beliefs. Lastly, the pigs and Napoleon appeared one day walking in their hind legs and showing qualities of humans until one day in the eyes of the animals they become so human like, it was impossible to tell between humans and pigs. The animals

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).”

This is first seen in the pails of milk that were milked from the cows after the rebellion. While all the other animals were away, Napoleon, unseen by anyone else, took the milk for himself and other pigs. Around the same time, Napoleon is raising the puppies in the loft by himself, without any other animal knowing. Of course, he lies about what is going on by saying he is training them, while in reality he is teaching them to become loyal to only him. The puppies represent the armed forces or police state of a nation that is used by a evil dictator for evil

5. How did Napoleon get rid of Snowball and gain full control of the animals? Napoleon trained puppies into wolf-like dogs that would do whatever he said, including chasing away Snowball and threatening other animals. 6.

In Animal Farm, Napoleon chased off his greatest rival to secure his position of power. Hugo Chavez was impeached by his government but, using military force, took back control of his government and declared himself as a dictator. ("Venezuela's Chavez Ousted, Briefly (Special Report).") They both used a form of violence to scare their people, and keep them in line. When hugo Chavez took control back, he “left dozens of civilians dead and hundreds wounded” ("Venezuela's Chavez Ousted, Briefly (Special Report).") Similarly, when Napoleon took control of the farm, he used brutal punishment for all the animals that had disobeyed him. He had the dogs rip out the disobedient animal’s throats. The couple of Dictators were ruthless and took all the power that they didn't rightfully

Old Major the prize winning boar represents the father of communism Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, two people who idealized the prospect of a revolution to create a society of equals rather than the poorly runned system under the current ruler Tsar Nicholas II. Similar to Karl Marx’s dream for equality, Old Major had a dream that the animals would rise up and take over Manor Farm and all animals would live as equals. Napoleon the Berkshire boar parallels Joseph Stalin the absolute leader of the Soviet Union, who rose to power despite not being the natural successor of Lenin. Napoleon like Stalin eventually destroys the nation he sets out to build and develop because of being consumed by power, after all, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Snowball

Scuttling innocently through the twisting corridors I bore the same expression; head down, shoulders hunched, avoiding any eye contact - my desperate attempts to deter the despot for one day at least. Despite my efforts, there was no escape, as seemingly within the second of having that naively optimistic thought, a cruel, callous voice demanded I surrender my broach. Fear spiked, as it always did, but with it came something else, an alien emotion ... Looking back now, I see that it must have been the cumulative effect of months of torment that brought me to the realisation that at this point I had reached the nadir of my life. Deriding cackles pierced my ears and this time I recognised the emotion, fury. It burned through my veins, along with the memories of the past to form a feeling of overwhelming power. I met the daggers that would usually invoke terror, and calmly, I said “No.”

Furthermore, Napoleon was blatantly violating the commandments. It was later discovered that the pigs were moving into the farmhouse because “the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in” (26). Squealer's explanation does not explain why it is okay for the pigs to live in the farmhouse but they proceeded to anyway. The animals had their suspicions and yet they did nothing to prevent this.

They begin to train the puppies to do Napoleon’s bidding and they comply without compliant. The puppies do not complain because they do not know there is anything to complain about, that was the life they were told to live and never knew any of the other animals lived any differently than they do. In the Russian Revolution the Komsomol were trained the same way and did not realize how wrong what they were doing was until it was too late and Russia collapsed. A few might have survived like in the book Animal Farm and then were taught the correct way to live and treat others but until that time they were living the only way they knew

Frederick. Without any hesitance from the dogs, they quickly tore the pigs' throat out for betraying Napoleon, until suddenly, the place became a confession room as animal by animal began confessing their crimes. Most animals admitting to stealing food from the whole group, and even murdering an old ram came to light. Immediately, the confessors are slaughtered in front of everyone to see so they may see the consequences they will have to face if anyone tries to disobey Napoleon's rules. The animals live to hear the "fierce, growling dogs roam[] everywhere"(34), as they true to focus on their labour