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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”

Shortly after the Revolution, Snowball comes up with the plan to construct a windmill to make the lives of the inhabitants of Animal Farm easier. Napoleon hides in the shadows per se until the puppies that he has taken and trained are old enough to act as a police force. Once they are old enough, Napoleon has the dogs drive Snowball off the farm. He then takes credit for the idea of the windmill and proceeds to claim that he, not Snowball, won the award at the Battle of Cowshed. Napoleon then informs the animals that Snowball was an enemy and was a threat to Animal Farm. The animals are swayed by his propaganda and are fearful of his police dogs; this is what keeps him in power.

Napoleon used force to gain control of Animal Farm, and used fear to keep it. When he and Snowball both led the other animals, they had many disagreements. Napoleon saw that Snowball was better at communicating with the animals, so he used the dogs which he had secretly trained to drive Snowball away – permanently. Napoleon used these dogs to keep all the animals ‘in line’ and quash any thought of rebellion with fear.

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).”

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 starts establishing his dictatorship when he accumulates nine attack dogs. The dogs are used whenever Napoleon is in public,when the animals try to oppose anything he says, and to intimidate them. “Four young porkers in the front row uttered shrill sequels of disapproval,and all four of them sprang to their feet and began speaking at once. But suddenly the dogs sitting around Napoleon let out deep menacing growls,and the pigs fell silent and sat down again” (pg.54). Napoleon also blames all of the farm’s problems and focuses all the hatred onto Snowball. “He stole the corn, he upset the milk-pails,he broke the eggs, he trampled the seedbeds, he gnawed the bark off the fruit trees. Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute

Though many of the characters in Animal Farm impacted the outcome of the novel, Napoleon's impact seems to have risen above any of the other characters. Napoleon is the boar who originally lead the communist party on Animal Farm alongside Snowball but later led Snowball off the farm and became the sole ruler and dictator of the animals. Napoleon kept the animals working through propaganda and fear, caused the animals to over exert themselves, manipulated the other animals, and took all of the power for himself in a government that was supposed to be run by the people. Napoleon’s use of propaganda and the fear that he instilled in the animals on the farm impacted the story by keeping the animals from seeing that he was mistreating them and

Napoleon, who is the leading power in the farm, had complete control of the animal’s minds, being able to convince them that “Snowball [had] done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year” (Orwell 70). Napoleon’s need for complete power was able to be achieved from the trust he had established from the other animals, making them not question him and follow whatever he said.

In the book, Animal Farm, Napoleon’s conflicts are external conflicts with Snowball and Napoleon struggles through these conflicts all throughout the book, causing him to make sure that the other animals think of Snowball as a traitor, Snowball was manipulative, and also someone who didn’t strive for the wellbeing of the farm. Through the external conflicts Napoleon faces, like Snowball almost winning over the farm with the windmill, the windmill being destroyed, when there are traitors among the farm animals, and even when some of the animals plot to murder him, Napoleon gains more power as a result of him resolving the conflicts.

Napoleon was the leader in Animal Farm, but before he assumed total power, he needed to take on little responsibility. He started by taking food from the animals and shared it with only the pigs who were already taking leadership on the Farm. However, for him to reach his supremacy he harmed the animals in many brutal and unacceptable ways. Before Napoleon was able to gain total control over the farm, he had to eliminate his contender to rule in Snowball. Napoleon took Bluebell and Jessie's pups and raised them to be merciless and to obey only him. After he drove out his adversary, he forbade debates and did not let anyone challenge him. In order for no one to have a say in anything, Napoleon ordered his vicious dogs to constantly establish fear in

Automatically, suspicion about the nine puppies grow when he says that he “will be responsible for their education.” The dogs are introduced back into the story after Snowball gives his impacting speech. Napoleon signals them with a call and the dogs viciously try to get a hold of Snowball who manages to escape just in time. For the rest of the story, the dogs play the roles of being Napoleon's intimidating bodyguards. One day, Napoleon decides to gather all the animal’s in the yard with the dogs circling them; baring their teeth. Out of intimidation, the animals step forward to confess if they have had any contact Snowball. After confessing, “the dogs promptly tore their throats out” and in the end, blood is everywhere and a pile of corpses lays at the feet of Napoleon. The power ultimately gives Napoleon the ability to easily take the lives of the other animals on the

Before the eviction of Snowball from the farm, Napoleon was in constant debate with Snowball, arguing against any attempt to better the farm. In fact, the only action Napoleon takes upon himself is the training of nine puppies, which he later uses to run Snowball, his idealistic and outspoken opponent, off the farm. With the absence his opponent, Napoleon set out to gain power through “justified means”. For example, “…in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animals who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half,” (Orwell 51) showing that, though Napoleon made the work seem voluntary, it was quite mandatory with the halved rations.

The story goes into detail about the various characters and how they react to their situations that nobody in our generation has had to experience. While the animals have to work and labour to get minimal rations, the pigs manipulated the rules to get beds, alcohol, and many other pleasures that humans in power are granted. This book goes deep into the characterization of the different leaders and the peasants. In the story Napoleon is the antagonist while Snowball was the protagonist. While Napoleon looked out what was best for himself and spread propaganda to make his image better, Snowball cared about the animals individually and tried his best to help them in any way

NAPOLEON – In the first two chapters, Napoleon was described as not being much of a talker but had a reputation for getting his way. He was also described as being very intelligent and influential. Throughout chapters three to six Napoleon’s character changes from what he was first presumed to be. The author uses both direct and indirect methods to show the alterations of Napoleon’s character. Napoleon is now perceived to be very sly and cunning and he uses tactics to his advantage which he keeps a secret from the other animals. An example of this is when he seized the nine puppies for the purpose of educating them. Instead, he made them into guard dogs to chase away Snowball and to force the other animals in agreement to his decisions. The

Napoleon was against Old Major, and Napoleon uses his private army of nine vicious and enormous dogs to become the chief pig. Napoleon wants to just sit around and tell all the other animals what to do but the other pig Snowball wants to teach all of the other animals and build the windmill. So once all of this action takes place all of the animals think the pigs are all bad