People who have read George Orwell’s analogy, Animal Farm you are no doubt aware of the several leadership strategies used throughout the book. In Animal Farm the animals revolt against their farmer and run the farm by themselves with a pig named Napoleon as their leader. Napoleon slowly turns the farm into a totalitarian farm while still getting all the loyalty of the animals. Napoleon scares the animals into submission by lying to them through a fellow pig named Squealer, changing the commandment to suit his needs (the seven rules all the animals agree to follow) , and by making himself a godlike figure. Napoleon lies through Squealer a lot throughout the book to keep the animals respect and loyalty. Boxer is the hardest working animal …show more content…
In this circumstance the pigs execute some animals when the original commandments Animal Farm was made off of said No animal shall kill another animal. So the pigs add a little to the commandment without telling the animals and in this way changing history and making their actions OK. “A few days later, when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals remembered--or thought they remembered--that the Sixth Commandment decreed: "No animal shall kill any other animal." And though no one cared to mention it in the hearing of the pigs or the dogs, it was felt that the killings which had taken place did not square with this. Clover asked Benjamin to read her the Sixth Commandment, and when Benjamin, as usual, said that he refused to meddle in such matters, she fetched Muriel. Muriel read the Commandment for her. It ran: "No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE." Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out of the animals ' memory.” This helps the pigs stay in control of the animals by changing the commandment they make the animals think that no rules were broken when in fact they were. This is another commonly used leadership strategy by Napoleon making himself perfect and not a rule breaker by changing the rules when he breaks them. That was another of Napoleon 's leadership strategy that is used so commonly throughout the book that by the end not one commandment is how it