Napoleon's Change 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

Napoleon is talking and celebrating with the humans. They are playing games and toasting to the peace between the humans and Napoleon, when Napoleon starts changing. The animals outside were confused because they “looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which” (Orwell 141). When Napoleon became more corrupt, he acted more like the humans. He was being friendly to the farmers as if he was one of them. Napoleon’s corruption was shown by him becoming a human. He did not care about the other animals, he just used them to get money. The rebellion against Mr. Jones was the animals trying to be free. The animals had freedom until Napoleon became corrupt. He was an animal just like the rest of the farm, then he took Mr. Jones’s place. Napoleon turning into a human is Napoleon becoming fully corrupt. Napoleon’s appearance shows how corrupt he has

As seen throughout the plot, Napoleon slowly becomes more isolated and distant from the other animals. He had received special treatment and more privileges than others. This was all due to the abusive of power, manipulation, and deceiving lies. Napoleon was given too much power and the animals were not intellectually capable of taking matters into their own hands. The animals were too ignorant because they’re only animals; this can be easily overlooked. Although they all speak english, they still have their animal tendencies and tend to behave the way an animal does. Napoleon breaks the animal tendencies, furthermore results in him starting to resemble more like Mr. Jones. He is given absolute power in which power corrupts.

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

Napoleon, who is represented as an evil power hungry pig, becomes the villain that destroys the farm through his manipulative acts such as abusing the animals, cutting rations, increasing labor, and in the end making an imbalance of equality. The revolution that promised freedom delivered for some the strong, the well-armed, and slavery for all the others (Donald E. Morse 89). Instead of

Animal Farm, by George Orwell was published in 1945, a crucial time in history because of Stalin’s takeover of the Soviet Union and his exploitation of the centralized communist government. This was in direct contradiction to the expected results of the Russian Revolution. Orwell felt that revolutions fail because the end result is a change of tyrants and not of government. Orwell exemplifies this failure through the goals of the revolution and their failure to meet them, the malfunction of Napoleon and Snowball’s rule together, and Napoleon’s disastrous reign.

This all went very well for a while, but the revolution then took a drastic downfall. The animal’s freedom and individuality was slowly taken away. Napoleon took the dogs freedom away by “making them bow, “ and obey him only. The animals also began to have no freedom of speech, “ raised their voices timidly but they were promptly silent by a tremendous growling,” which shows us that the farm was no longer run by all the animals but rather by the pigs, anything they say is right and you may not argue. The animals no all had to be the same, which can be taken as equality, but it was taken to the extreme. The animals had to call each other, “comrade,” and they weren’t even allowed to stick out in the smallest ways, ” Molly’s ribbons were taken,” which was fine at first but then slowly the animals started forgetting who they were.

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

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?

Napoleon changed the battle of the cowshed from Snowball being the hero to him partnering with Mr. Jones and luring the animals into a trap Loyalty and obedience are more important. “And as to the Battle of the Cowshed, I believe the time will come when we shall find that Snowball’s part in it was much exaggerated.” (document D). He also made many revisions to the seven commandments “ There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran: ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS”(document A).This cause a shift from one social class in which all animals were equal to two different social classes where the upper social class is treated as royalty. These small adjustments to history made it so Napoleon was an honored war hero, smarter and richer than most animals, and perfect in the eyes of the

He gave them the false inspiration and hope that they were working for to stay free. This is what Hitler did to the Jews who were able to work, he had in his concentration camps say “work to be free”, but in reality he did not have the intention to set them free. The reason as to why the animals did not rebel was for two reasons. One being that they just were not educated at all and the other reason is because Napoleon has an immense amount of fierce dogs around him at all times. This made him an intimidating pig. The animals were oblivious to the corruption around them that he shrugged off a fellow animal dying by another simply because Napoleon said it was fine and the Commandments said that it was exceptional. The dumbest of the animals was a horse named boxer. Because he was the strongest of the farm animals, what he said greatly influenced the others animals, and because he was on the side of Napoleon the other animals followed. There were many times were the animals would have revolted without Boxer present, but after he died, it was too late to turn back. He inspired the animals by constantly saying, “I will work harder”, and, “Napoleon is always right”. This often concluded questions regarding Napoleon’s style of handling business.

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.

After the revolution, Manor Farm was renamed to Animal Farm and the Seven Commandments of animalism were established to ensure equality. The pigs became the supervisors of the farm. However, the rivalry between two pigs Snowball and Napoleon made Napoleon use force. Napoleon ordered his dogs to chase out Snowball from the farm in order to become the only leader. Napoleon’s selfishness and corrupt power made him commit different atrocities against his own comrades. As a result, the lives of the animals except for the pigs and dogs were of tyranny and inequality. Napoleon became worse than their former human master. The animals spent the rest of his life almost starving and working in the construction of the windmill that was destroyed several times. The abolishment of Sunday morning meetings, the public execution of animals, and the drinking of alcohol were the most important changes that facilitated the transformation of animal farm, and Napoleon as the most responsible for the downfall of the utopian vision of Animal Farm.

In times of revolutionary upheaval, a society can become governed by powerful and abusive leadership. George Orwell brings this idea to full fruition in his satirical narrative, Animal Farm. The revolution within Manor Farm by way of the animals, is comparable to the vast changes which occurred in early 20th century Russia. The rebellion which took place in Russia was supposed to improve society but as in the story, powerful nondemocratic authorities took over.

Napoleon automatically tries and actually succeeds in taking the farm under his and the pigs control. Napoleon convinces the not so smart animals first into following and obeying his orders, this then spreader to the other animals which then they followed and obeyed. Napoleon took advantage of these animals by making them do all the laboring and building. Most of the time the animals weren't feed due to that Napoleon was being greedy and spending money on his whiskey. Napoleon took the animals freedom by making them care for the crops and build the windmill. Napoleon compares to some dictators such as Kim jung un and Adolf Hitler in that he takes the animals rights, makes them follow his rules and changes the commandments.