Why Napoleon Was To Blame For The Failure Of Animal Farm

I believe the Animal Farm failed for many reasons such as the level of education each animal had, Napoleon becoming a power hungry tyrant and Squealer lying to all the animals about past events and why Napoleon was doing various things. The Animal Farm may represent the Russian Revolution but I think the overall idea of the Animal Farm is of any revolution. So I believe that the main reason that the Animal Farm appeared to have failed is because when the animals first thought of the meaning of a revolution they thought of freedom, not an actual revolution which consists of the government being overthrown, replaced by another, with decisions that benefit the leaders.

Napoleon was firstly portrayed as being a "fierce-looking Berkshire boar,

The level of education was very different between the animals as the pigs could write and read perfectly. The dogs learned to read fairly well and some of the less intelligent animals learnt the first couple of letters. Whilst most of the animals could not get further than the letter A! So how should they read the seven commandments? They can only trust the pigs and the dogs! Now the dogs and the pigs were in a friendship as the dogs had entrusted the pigs with their toddlers. So whenever the pigs wanted to do something 'ill'legal they would change a bit on the laws and either no one realised or they were persuaded that it was always like that. Boxer was very naive as one of his mottos were 'Napoleon is always right' which caused the Revolution to fail as everything that Napoleon did, either wrong or right, was accepted as being right which caused reckless actions to be done. George Orwell tried to portray the level of education of the citizens in a society as the level of education of the animals in the Animal Farm. I believe he has accomplished that. We also see elitism occur as the pigs and dogs were the cleverest and were in charge whilst the other animals such as the hens were very stupid and were one of the least respected. George Orwell also tried to portray that that the working class in a society is naive, which was Boxer in the Animal

A revolution is a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system. The 'government' the animals overthrew was Mr.Jones the rightful owner of the animals which was replaced with Napoleon and his propaganda which ended up being even worse for the animals. The rules when Mr. Jones was head of the farm where you did whatever Jones said and you followed stereotypical types death he inflicted upon your kind so for the porkers it would be slaughtered at the block so everyone was ready and prepared for the consequences. But on the other hand, when Napoleon was the head of the farm there were 7 commandments which were changed without the animals being informed to a completely different set of rules until he chose to change the commandment that the Animal Farm was founded on "four legs good, two legs bad," to "four legs good, two legs better." So overall the animals had no idea what to expect. So I believe the Animal Farm failed because of the lack of ability to differentiate the meaning of a revolution to freedom and because of the ever-changing rules that the animals were told to