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How Did Napoleon Lose His Power In Animal Farm

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In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, two characters, Napoleon and Boxer, show what happens when a victim chooses to stay silent after seeing injustice happening to them and how their life changes. Napoleon was one of the leaders at Animal Farm. Napoleon was not a good leader and took the power from Snowball by force. Once Napoleon was the leader he started breaking roles that Old Major made before the rebellion. He started breaking the rules by starting a business with Mr.Whymper. He convinced the animals by taking the responsibility of trading on his own shoulder. Napoleon forced the animals to work hard, harder than in Jones' days. He forced hens to give up on their eggs, so he could trade with Whymper. Those hens who did not want to give up on their …show more content…

By doing that Napoleon broke another rule which was no animal should kill other animals. After that he changed the law to no animal should kill another animal without reason. He did that so other animals would not protest or blame him for what he did. Napoleon also was a selfish leader who always ate the best food at the farm and was sleeping on the beds which was breaking another law from the past. Once Again he changed the law to no animal should sleep on a bed with a sheet. Napoleon kept his power by lying to other animals and giving them wrong information about farm development and their food rate because the other animals were not educated, they believed everything they were told, and Napoleon never stopped taking advantage of that to make his and the pigs' life easier at the farm. By the end of the book, Napoleon and the pigs started wearing clothes and started walking on two feet just like humans. They even had wipes

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