Niccolo Machiavelli once said, “It is better to be feared than loved.” This quote says that if you are a leader who is loved, your people may not respect you and do as you say but if you’re feared than even though the people may not necessarily like you they will do as you say. I completely agree with this quote especially when it comes to the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell. In the novel Animal Farm you can see that it’s better to be feared than loved because all of the animals weren’t necessarily fond of Napoleon but he used fear to control and keep the animals in check. In this quote Squealer is trying to convince the Animals to give the pifs their food, he eventually lies and puts fear in them to get what he wanted and it worked. “ Surely …show more content…
This quote helps prove my claim because all of the animals feared Mr.Jones so when the pigs would lie to them saying that if they don’t do this Mr.Jones may come back, They are inflicting fear into them to get them to do what they want. Napoleon was able to use fear to get all of the animals to dislike his nemesis Snowball. He told the animals that Snowball was coming to the farm and causing mischief at night which stopped a lot of the animals from sleeping. He also began warning the animals saying if any of them were caught with Snowball then they would be seriously punished, This made all of the animals too scared to even think about being associated with Snowball. This all shows how Napoleon used fear to truly lead the animals to do or think whatever it is that he wanted them to. In this quote Napoleon decides that even though the animal are working as hard as they have ever done, they need to do more.”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 work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.” This quote is Napoleon telling the