How Did Napoleon Abuse His Power In Animal Farm

After the dirty deed of murder was done Napoleon accused Snowball of being a traitor working with Mr. Jones trying to have him Mr. Jones reacquire the farm. The great ideas of Snowball were taken by Napoleon and claimed to have made his own like the Snowballs design of the windmill. The work on the farm increased and since it is a democracy where everyone agrees to make decisions, Napoleon tells the people he will do what is best for them. It starts to create a divide among the working animals and the pigs who were the brains of the operation.

Napoleon was a fierce leader like Hitler. Napoleon was leader of the animals in the book called Animal Farm by George Orwell. The main methods Napoleon uses to power over the other animals are he scares them and gives them pride.

Perhaps the most significant one of all was Napoleon throwing out the second most powerful animal on the farm, simply because he was a threat to his own reign. The animals were so engrossed by Napoleon that they fully supported the termination of Snowball, solely for the reasons given to them via Napoleon. “Napoleon produced his schemes of his own, but said quietly that snowball would come to nothing.” (54). At such an early point after the pigs power was established, Napoleon had already started to create a divide between Snowball and himself. When he told the other animals how horrible for the farm Snowball supposedly is, the farm would start to trust him more and therefore depend on his more.While gaining the animals trust more, he simultaneously gained more power for himself, for with Snowball gone all the power he had would now be his. “He had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a maneuver to get rid of Snowball…Now that Snowball was out of the way, the plan could go forward without his interference.”(58). Napoleon is willing to do anything to gain and maintain his own power, regardless of how it is done and who will be effected by it. As shown by this windmill incident, Napoleon will use any instance to further manipulate the other animals, just to gain even one more sliver of much desired

Napoleon, who is the leading power in the farm, had complete control of the animal’s minds, being able to convince them that “Snowball [had] done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year” (Orwell 70). Napoleon’s need for complete power was able to be achieved from the trust he had established from the other animals, making them not question him and follow whatever he said.

While Napoleon was gaining power over the animals he had to get rid of other politicians and opposing citizens. He did this by raising dogs that would strike fear into citizens and end up chasing Snowball out of the farm making Napoleon have total power. “Four young porkers…uttered shrill squeals of disapproval…. But…the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep, menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again.”(document B). This made it so the animals were too scared to oppose or overthrow Napoleon. He also made it so no one could challenge him politically. He did this by having his dogs kill masses of people so no one would dare have different opinions and speak out against him. “When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice, Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess”(document B). The mass murder made it so Napoleon had total control of the farm. The violence of Napoleon’s leadership caused the animals to fear to have their own opinions and forced them to conform to Napoleon’s

The fear of the animals made it possible for Napoleon to get what he wanted. In “Animal Farm” the author states how the animals were scared to speak of what's wrong: “Some of the animals remembered - or thought they remembered - that the Sixth Commandment decreed 'No animal shall kill any other animal.' And though no one cared to mention it in the hearing of the pigs or the dogs, it was felt that the killings which had taken place did not square with this.” (Orwell, Quote 16). Animals were so scared of Napoleon that his dog’s will kill them, if the animals said one word against Napoleon they will die, so the animals never took a stand for each other, and were scared

In Animal Farm, Napoleon first showed early signs of abusing his power after Jones was expelled from the farm. “As soon as the pups were weaned, Napoleon took them away from their mothers, saying that he would make himself responsible for their education. ”(35) We could see from the start that he wanted more power and needed something to back him up when he told his brief speeches. Orwell added this part into the book to show how Napoleon was using his power to break the bond of child/puppy to its mother. By breaking the bond the dogs will grow up in a corrupt manner with Napoleon which he later uses the dogs to benefit himself once again.

Napoleon is talking and celebrating with the humans. They are playing games and toasting to the peace between the humans and Napoleon, when Napoleon starts changing. The animals outside were confused because they “looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which” (Orwell 141). When Napoleon became more corrupt, he acted more like the humans. He was being friendly to the farmers as if he was one of them. Napoleon’s corruption was shown by him becoming a human. He did not care about the other animals, he just used them to get money. The rebellion against Mr. Jones was the animals trying to be free. The animals had freedom until Napoleon became corrupt. He was an animal just like the rest of the farm, then he took Mr. Jones’s place. Napoleon turning into a human is Napoleon becoming fully corrupt. Napoleon’s appearance shows how corrupt he has

Throughout your life, have you ever heard of a leader doing awful things to the people and citizens of his/her country? Animal Farm by George Orwell proves that having absolute power will always corrupt a leader, as shown by the character Napoleon. Napoleon, the main leader and dictator in Animal Farm never really followed the true laws and rules of Animalism. Although in the beginning of the story, he is introduced as a keen boar, with only the interest in following out the last wishes of the wise boar Old Major, we soon see that he believes the pigs are better than all the other animals. An example of this is when the cows are milked for the first time.

Napoleon has broken many laws and made some of the worst cruel laws that affected the animal community at first the original plan was to help every animal as much as they could but Napoleon decided to become an arrogant leader and terrorize Animal Farm he is outnumbering himself with bodyguards which are dogs so when someone wants to step up and overthrown him he can release the dogs and kill him. In the early pages of Chapter 5, Snowball was suppose to be the leader after he shared his bravery in the Battle of the Cowshed, he has the ability to make better speeches, and make better ideas to benefit the community. After, Napoleon became jealous and decided to use the dogs against Snowball to chase him off possibly wanting to murder him this is one major part when Napoleon used the dogs to

Firstly, Napoleon uses manipulation to generate a cult of personality in the Animal Farm. Napoleon directly shows how he manipulated the animals as he believed “...[weaker] animals on Animal Farm did more work and [would] receive less food than any animals in the country” (92).Napoleon shows how he only cares about himself as he uses the animals. He would make the animals do labour to support himself and to be powerful.The animals would agree to everything that he said because they believed that Napoleon wanted the best for them. Napoleon made the animals believe that they were in better conditions even though “starvation seemed to stare them in the face.” (50). He did a great job to hid the reality from the animals. His thoughts and

Animal Farm is a politically satiric novel that is partly a fable as well. It was written by George Orwell which is an alias of his actual name Eric Blair. In the novel, there is an irresponsible farm owner named Mr. Jones who spends most of his time unproductively and intoxicated instead of taking care of his dependent animals. Eventually, a boar named Old Major sparks the animals into planning a rebellion against the lazy farmer. After Old Major's death, the animals were sorrowful but continued planning for the rebellion. One day, Mr. Jones continued being irresponsible with his animals; however, after Mr. Jones forgot to feed his animals, it sparked the rebellion. The rebellion was successful and Mr. Jones had been defeated, but the the

     There are many ways in which Napoleon obtains and maintains power on Animal Farm. Napoleon obtains power fundamentally by elimination of all opposing him. He obtains and maintains power by turning other animals weaknesses into his opportunities. He also uses his education and knowledge to obtain and maintain power, as well as his ability to defeat the resistant feelings in other animals. To obtain and maintain power Napoleon uses various degrees of manipulation. He also uses persuasion and propaganda, brainwashing techniques and violence to

This leads to the animals to finally discover his true colors. After Snowball was ran out of the farm all public meetings were canceled. When Napoleon announced, “ that from now on the sunday morning meetings would come to an end. They were unnecessary and wasted time. In the future all questions related to working on the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs presided over by himself.” , he is no longer allowing the other animals input on situations. When they were under the care of Jones they still has some say on what went on. Now under Napoleon's authority they are left with no say so on what goes on. This shows he only cares about what he has to say. Now that he has stripped the animals of their opinions , his judgement is the only thing that goes. This builds to Napoleon's ego and how he assumes he is above everyone else. He doesn’t care for anyone else unless it somehow benefits him and this shows he abuses his power as

As seen throughout the plot, Napoleon slowly becomes more isolated and distant from the other animals. He had received special treatment and more privileges than others. This was all due to the abusive of power, manipulation, and deceiving lies. Napoleon was given too much power and the animals were not intellectually capable of taking matters into their own hands. The animals were too ignorant because they’re only animals; this can be easily overlooked. Although they all speak english, they still have their animal tendencies and tend to behave the way an animal does. Napoleon breaks the animal tendencies, furthermore results in him starting to resemble more like Mr. Jones. He is given absolute power in which power corrupts.