The “leaders” in chapters 3-5 use a variety of control tactics to keep the behavior of the animals on the farm in check. In the beginning, Snowball and Napoleon used persuasion and manipulation. These tactics worked very effectively because a large population of the animals were not intelligent and were very gullible. In other words, they couldn’t think for themselves. For example, when the pigs would want to keep certain privileges to themselves, they would manipulate the animals into thinking if they didn’t have what they wanted then Jone’s would come back, meaning the end of Animal Farm. Compared to the control tactics used later in the story, persuasion and manipulation are perfectly fine.
In chapter 5, due to a disagreement over a windmill