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Who Is Napoleon A Static Character In Animal Farm

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In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, the characters represent important people from the Russian Revolution. One important character that has a huge impact on the other characters is Napoleon. He uses different tactics to brainwash and make the other think an in Napoleon’s way. Which to him is the only and right way of thinking and living? And of course, that is how he completes his mission. What is his agenda to begin with? Napoleon is a static character that uses certain methods to influence the others animals, making him the most important animal with the most control. He achieved this with Squealer and changing the commandments. Of course, every leader or dictator needs to have a side person. Someone to be with them throughout the …show more content…

And Napoleon is the opposite of not being confident with public speaking (Orwell). So this makes for the perfect duo. A leader with ideas where he can get squealer, a semi-respected animal, to preach his ideas to others. The ideas about animalism. But in reality, it is just him using that title for his twisted ideas. And in this case, squealer only speaks about one constant idea. “The political writing, I personally dislike is programmatic, pushing a single cause or concern or party position, or it’s tied into a highly topical situation that doesn’t transfer well out of its own specific time and place”(Foster 84). Foster explains how authors write about politics. And most people dislike when they talk in a programmatic way, talking about one particular view. It can get boring and repetitive. That is why some animals question napoleon’s ways. Because is he really preaching what Old Major wanted the farm to know? No, he twisted Old Major's views to help gain support from others. Now that squealer is under his control it makes all his plans easier. Since most of the animals on the farm cannot read, they just go along with whatever the ones who can say. And to the benefit of Napoleon, all the pigs can read. So this creates the

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