Napoleon's Abuse Of Power

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.

Napoleon was a tyrant, firstly he treated women unfair and secondly people weren't allowed to have the freedom of speech of go against him. This was what made him a tyrant. One thing Napoleon said against women was "In france women are considered too highly. They should not be regarded as equal to men. In reality they are nothing more than machines for producing children. He didn't treat women and men equally, like if a men and women worked at the same job the men would get payed more than the women. "Public education does not suit women, as they are not called upon to live in public....marriage is their whole estimation," was also said by Napoleon and proves that he believed that women were to do household things only.( which meant it didn't

Napoleon adjusting the commandments in his favor helps him gain power. Napoleon changes one of the seven commandments to “four animals good, two legs better” (134), when the “pigs [start] walking on [their] hind legs” (132). Napoleon then changes another commandment to “No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets” (67) so he can benefit from it and not look like a bad guy. The major commandment that changes is “All animals are equal” (25) to “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” (134) to show Napoleon has majority of the power. By changing the commandments, Napoleon gains

During the era of his reign, Napoleon Bonaparte was a well renowned military leader and emperor of France. The quote “Absolute power corrupts absolutely” explains how the obsession of wanting complete authority over others would overtime fade away a person’s morality. Such a bold statement seems to perfectly correlate to Napoleon Bonaparte’s own history. He was a man with such power and popularity, but who soon became insensitive to the cost humans would have to pay because of his actions causing great anguish for others. The reason being as to why Napoleon is associated with this quote is because of his infamous deeds such as the imprisonment of the Pope, the execution of d’Enghien and

Napoleon is the example of a more dictatorial leader. He is more greedy for power and therefore corruption existed when he was ruling. He does not show much interest in the welfare of the animals, which means he only cares about himself but not about anyone else. He uses several methods to take and maintain control of the farm. He is quiet yet intimidating. Early on in Animal Farm, Napoleon takes Jessie and Bluebell’s nine newborn puppies. These puppies become the forefront of his campaign of fear. He uses them to gain power by eliminating his nemesis. Napoleon uses his intellect to good effect as far as self-interest is concerned. But a real good leader never uses fear to gain the power. He instills fear as a way of giving the animal no chance to argue about what he says. This allows him to run the farm in his

Three of the character traits I describe Napoleon are hypocrite, weak, and a great leader. “Napoleon announce that the windmill was to be built after all… Why then asked somebody, had he spoken strongly against it?” (Orwell pg. 51-52). Although at first, Napoleon strongly opposed to Snowball’s idea of the windmill, he later on ordered the animals of the creation of the windmill. Without his subordinate, Squealer, the animals would have suspected something about him. “Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness. Never to have any dealings with human beings… The four young pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Meetings raised their voice timidly, but they were silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs” (Orwell

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

In chapter 7 Napoleon began punishing and executing the animals who he believed to be traitors, by forcing them to confess to “crimes” that they committed. Through this, it is obvious that although the pigs goal is to keep humans out of animal farm, and make sure that the animals are safe, it is causing a sense of fear and terror in the animals. This also shows how the animals have no freedom of

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

Napoleon’s use of propaganda keeps the animals on his side. Squealer tells the animals that the pigs need milk and apples because they work more than the other animals. Squealer told the animals, “... So it was agreed without further argument that the milk and...apples...should be reserved for the pigs alone,”(Doc C, Chapter 3). Napoleon uses propaganda through Squealer telling the animals to do what he says.

With all the glory and the splendour that some countries may have experienced, never has history seen how only only one man, Napoleon, brought up his country France from its most tormented status, to the very pinnacle of its height in just a few years time. He was a military hero who won splendid land-based battles, which allowed him to dominate most of the European continent. He was a man with ambition, great self-control and calculation, a great strategist, a genius; whatever it was, he was simply the best. But, even though how great this person was, something about how he governed France still floats among people 's minds. Did he abuse his power? Did Napoleon defeat the purpose of the ideals of the French Revolution? After all of his success in his military campaigns, did he gratify the people 's needs regarding their ideals on the French Revolution? This is one of the many controversies that we have to deal with when studying Napoleon and the French Revolution. In this essay, I will discuss my opinion on whether or not was he a destroyer of the ideals of the French Revolution.

Each of these leaders had a way that they gained their power. Napoleon kills all animals who oppose him (Orwell 58). This increases his power over the farm, controlling all of the animals. He uses nine dogs to put fear into people so they would not oppose him (Orwell 58). This let his people know who's in charge for that reason they would not dare to oppose him.

Napoleon exploit's the animals inferiority complex. When he changes the seven commandments to justify his actions, the animals are doubtful as their memories tell them that the seven commandments were different. However Squealer tells them that they are wrong and it is just a figment of their imagination. The animals think that if napoleon says so then he must be right and so let him get away with it.

The first alteration was a simplification of the commandments by Snowball so that the animals having difficulty remembering all seven could understand the main idea of Animalism. This oversimplification is a huge mistake on Snowball’s part because it allows Napoleon to brainwash the rest of the animals and convince them of whatever he needs them to think. The rest of the alterations are by Napoleon attempting to cover up his human-like actions that break the commandments. As the Seven Commandments are continuously shortened, Napoleon continuously breaks them. First, Napoleon decides to engage in trade with humans, despite the commandment saying, "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy." (Orwell 43). Then he and the pigs move into the farmhouse and sleep in the beds. To cover it up, Napoleon insists that the commandment prohibiting this was actually, "No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets” (Orwell 79), and stating that they removed the sheets from the beds. Things like this continue happening, but any suspicions the animals have are snuffed out until there is a bloodbath, and Napoleon has the dogs kill multiple animals who, 'confess' to conspiring with Snowball. Though the causes shock and misery amongst the animals (Orwell 93), Napoleon still gets away with it by claiming that the sixth commandment actually says,

At the start, the revolution seems good for the animals, they set up seven commandants/rules that they must follow, they have a Sunday meeting every week, and Snowball was trying to set up the perfect society in which every animal could enjoy their life. However, that quickly changes when Napoleon comes to power. Napoleon symbolizes a despotic ruler. For example, “Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty-hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself would have his rations cut by half” (59).