In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, two main characters, Napoleon and Boxer, show two different behaviors on the farm. A ruthless leader, and a hard worker. Napoleon lies to his "friends" to get all the power he wants.
Napoleon is a corrupt leader whose goal is to have total control of Animal Farm. Napoleon keeps his power by using his pigs to strike fear in the other animals. One of his pigs, Squealer uses fear to make the other animals work, for example, after the battle of cowshed he states, "One false step, and our enemies would be upon us. Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?". Squealer uses this fear tactic often to get the animals back in their place. Secondly, when he discovered that some animals thought about killing him in his sleep he executed them. Napoleon shows just how corrupt he is by giving his pigs that don't work extra food, and the hard workers little to no food. Fourthly, Napoleon bends the Seven Commandments to his liking, for example, one of the commandments states, "No Animal shall drink alcohol". Napoleon has this changed to "No animal shall drink alcohol to an excess", after consuming whiskey. Napoleon is very
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Boxer is an oblivious character, he doesn’t look deeper into the things he is told and just believes whatever he hears. One example is when Boxer chants "Napoleon is always right!". He chants this because he believes whatever comes out of Napoleon's mouth is the truth, "If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.". This also affects the other animals, because they look up to Boxer as if he was a leader. They see him chant how Napoleon is right so they start to believe that Napoleon is a great leader. Boxer's goal on the farm is to have the windmill their building finished, but sadly Boxer grows sick. When Boxer falls ill, Napoleon and the pigs sell him off to the knacker and use the money to buy