Napoleon is going power hungry and does what ever he wants so it looks like he isn't doing anything bad for the farm but the animals are starting to catch on. Another way that Napoleons actions and experiences go with him being really power hungry is that in the book on the farm he secretly has dogs that he takes and trains to follow and listen to him no matter what. He trains the dogs to always do what he tells them to, in the book it says, “ they were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately.
Napoleon would always be changing the seven commandments. At the beginning of the book, there were seven commandments. By the end of the book, there was only one commandment left that read “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” (134). This constant change will greatly affect the farm as the animals will not recognize the changes. Adding to Napoleon’s poor leadership, he wasted the farm's money to buy a crate of whiskey.
“The pigs’ ear were bleeding, the dogs had tasted blood” This quote from Animal Farm truly shows how much power Napoleon possesses on all of the other unintelligent animals. Napoleon generates a lot of fear on the animals and Squealer uses propaganda on the animals that are too stupid to think for themselves. If the animals were all educated: Napoleon would not be in power, because they would all be fighting for power, would not have been easily manipulated, and They would not be fooled by the change of the seven commandments, however some may think otherwise because Napoleon generates fear through the dogs. The animals would all be fighting for power.
Animal farm explores the humanity of others and if stripped away from common sense and order, power corrupts. Napoleon is a great character that shows their development throughout the book as compared to Jack in Lord of the Flies. Napoleon gave the other animals an impression that he was a good leader of the rebellion on Animal Farm. “Napoleon was now never spoken of simply as ‘Napoleon.’ He was always referred to in formal style as ‘our Leader, Comrade Napoleon.”
“Don't judge a book by its cover.” A quote written by George Eliot in 1860. This famous quote is known by millions around the world. The quote says that you should not judge someone based on how they look or sound. Hitler said that the Jews were bad for the country, and they would mess everything up, so they needed to go, and everyone followed and believed him.
Don’t be the enemy. Now that Napoleon is in charge life is getting a whole lot worse because is has complete power of Animal Farm. Napoleon from Animal Farm written by Orwell maintains control by using ideology, propaganda, and fear. Napoleon uses ideology of Animalism to give him more control over the animals.
This quote is important because it is the beginning of the climax. It shows the point at which Napoleon takes control of the farm and ruins the equality of all animals. He uses his dogs to scare of Snowball and to stay in power. Furthermore, he destroys the democracy of the farm by removing the Sunday meetings. Important Quote 2: “No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal.
In his brief discourse Napoleon says that "their sole wish, now and in the past, was to live at peace and in normal business relations with their neighbors."." He includes that the animals ‘absurd and stupid traditions will be "suppressed" and that "the name 'Animal Farm' will be "abolished." From that time the farm will be "known as 'The Manor Farm'" (p.119). The other animals viewing the pigs from outside perceive that they can't recognize the pigs from the men: "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible
Followers do not speak up against the leaders because they do not care or afraid or being lied to. For example, back in my home country the president Saddam Hussein was a leader of country that the people that lived there could not speak up for their rights. Nor they could do anything because they are afraid of what is going to happen to them if they speak up. So in the book happened the same thing the Pigs took control Napoleon took control over all and the the other animals followed.
In George Orwell's Animal Farm, Napoleon, a pig leader that represents Stalin from the Russian Revolution plays a big role in the book as the pig leaders are a superior group among the population of Animal Farm. In the story Napoleon is representing Stalin in Animal Farm as the main leader after Mr.Jones is ran out of the farm and Old Major died, resembling how Stalin took over rising to power in Russia. Napoleon started as a seemingly good leader but that soon changed… Napoleon, just like Stalin started to have problems with citizens of their own community and tried to hurt people and take things away. Both leaders can be shown using their superiority and power to their advantage to get everything they wanted and felt was necessary.
In Animals Farm, there is a pig who’s name Napoleon. This character did not contributed to the society with his actions. In effect, he did not respect the concept of “Animalism” which is the equality of all the animals. He did many actions that broke this conception during the entire story. At the beginning, Napoleon, take the farm with Snowball when the farmer, Mr. Jones, left.
Furthermore, Napoleon gives the other animals the impression he was the sole leader of the rebellion on Animal farm and makes Snowball -a leader who wanted what was best for the animals- seem like an enemy who was in cahoots with Farmer Jones since long before the animals took over the farm. Napoleon and Squealer (another “fat cat” pig.) always put the blame on Snowball whenever something went wrong in the farm to avoid having the blame fall on them. Napoleon is an exemplary example of just how selfish and hypocritical people can be in furthering their own aims because he continued to subtly but purposely change the seven rules put in place as the pillars of animalism. For example, Napoleon and the other pigs move into Farmer Jones’s house and sleep in his bed after commanding “No animal shall sleep in a bed”, so he changes the commandment to read “no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets”.
Napoleon has no interests towards the Animal Farm but only his power over it. Unlike Snowball who fought against Jones bravely, Napoleon did nothing to protect the Animal Farm. Napoleon is “not much of a talker” (35) and only contributes a little during the Meeting. Napoleon is not interested in Rebellion or fighting as long as he has power over the Animal Farm but only thinks about his benefits. After the first Rebellion, Napoleon acts as if he cares about others, saying “the harvest is more important” (44) and they should “never mind the milk” (44) when in real, he tries to divert their attentions from milk in order to steal it for himself.
For example, Napoleon decides that “It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there... It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in. It was also more suited to the dignity of the Leader (for of late he had taken to speaking of Napoleon under the title of "Leader") to live in a house than in a mere sty” (21) meaning that he is starting to take control of the farm. This shows that Napoleon is slowly starting to become the leader of the farmhouse and concludes that he deserves more than the others because of his high position. Furthermore, this also illustrates that the animals do not understand that Napoleon is becoming the thing that he feared most; human.
The animals start recognizing Napoleon for any good achievement done that day. For example, one of the hens recognizes Napoleon for just one stroke of good fortune. “Under the leadership of our Leader Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days…”(78). These poor animals are tricked into thinking that everything good that happens is due to “Comrade Napoleon's Leadership”. Every quote we see is a deeper level of corruption in Napoleon, and now, his influence on the farm is tearing what the revolution was all about.
