In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell there was an animal that stuck out to me and that animal is Napoleon. The name Napoleon comes from a long list of great leaders. Napoleon was an important leader in this book because he was the leader of the farm.
Napoleon was a powerful leader in this book because he used a specialty of his called fear. Napoleon was planning to be in charge before he was, just like he premeditated it. After Snowball was forced off the farm by the dogs is when Napoleon could finally start taking charge. Napoleon keeps power by telling the animals that if they don’t listen Mr. Jones will come back. For the most part that is what the animals are scared of, but there are also other reasons. Another reason the animals are to scared to stand up to Napoleon is because of the dogs. The dogs are like a second
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He abuses his powers by changing the commandments that were written before he became in charge. He would change them to make them more beneficial for him and the pigs. In the book he also gives the other animals roles and jobs that they have to do. Napoleon orders the animals to do more work on the farm and receive lesser rations of food. Napoleon is using his power to turn the animals into work horses. Napoleon is often seen less and just heard from, just like the leaders in this day in age. When you’re seen less then the animals can’t come find you when something goes wrong. Although Napoleon is seen as a bad leader he did a lot of things right. He got the animals to work together and when the windmill was destroyed he got them to start building it again. He also got the animals to believe they got a victory against the battle of Frederick. Which they didn't really get a victory almost everyone was injured. Napoleon was a good leader because he didn’t sit back and ask all the animals how they could make the farm better, instead he takes control and says how he's going to make it
One method napoleon stays in power by is animalism. In the story napoleon refers to the quote “4 legs good 2 legs bad” this quote means the 4 legged animals are better that the 2 legged humans.
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the pigs take over Manor Farm and dominate the weaker animals by using a combination of strength, fear, and trickery. This book is an allegory to the Russian Revolution, which led to Josef Stalin’s rise to power and the beginning of his dictatorship. In the novel Farmer Jones symbolizes Czar Nicholas II and Napoleon symbolizes Josef Stalin. The animals overthrow their dictator, Farmer Jones, and eventually end up replacing him with another dictator, Napoleon the pig. Napoleon demonstrates how the other farm animals’ weakness can be dominated by strength, fear, and trickery, revealing one of George Orwell’s themes.
Even through all of the hard work and effort the animals put forth to make Animal Farm a free, equal, and efficient environment, Napoleon ruined it all with his selfish ways. Napoleon created faulty hope and corrupt rules to win over land and money. The animals were dumb enough to trust him, and it backfired tremendously. Snowball would have been a great leader for animal farms, but Napoleon tricked the animals.
...d have his rations reduced by half” (Page 40). Here, Napoleon’s forces the animals to work and controls them while hiding behind the façade of the fact that the work is voluntary. Thus, Napoleon does not set himself as a target for the animals and, hence the animals do not aim for him or try to revolt. Overall, Napoleon’s use of coercive power allows him to exercise control over the society of Animal Farm.
Napoleon had a very skeptical way of leading the farm. He had a lot of negative characteristics (cons) with the way that he lead the farm. However, he also had some good qualities that he had as a leader (pros). He was a good leader in the way that he always wanted to move forward and innovate the farm. He was relentless in completing something that he had already started,
In the gist of it all napoleon was a great army leader but he was not a great leader for his people. He messed up the whole revolution. He crowned himself an emperor after they overthrew their monarch. It was bad for the people but they had no choice because of the fact that he just crowned himself the emperor. If the people had any choice, which they realized later they did they should have not led him lead.
In the book Napoleon began his leadership role quite well, with his ideas being fair and with a positive meaning. As the story continues he becomes more corrupt, and his ideas turn into a dictatorship. “Napoleon lead the animals back to the store-shed and served out a double portion of corn to everyone, with two biscuits for each dog.” As time went on his true nature, of a power crazy character begins to surface, he becomes more selfish and the principle idea of equality no longer exists. The farm is run on terror, and no animal dare speak out against him, for fear of death. “The news leaked out that every pig was receiving a ration of a pint of bear daily, with half a gallon for Napoleon.”
Napoleon, a main character in George Orwell's Animal Farm, was very cruel. so why does everyone consider him such an effective leader? In Animal Farm Orwell gives Napoleon, the dictator of the farm, many characteristics that make him an effective leader. Throughout the book Napoleon had a manipulative attitude, a strong support system, and he used scare tactics to intimidate and gain control of the other animals on the farm.
Napoleon is an extremely deceitful character in numerous ways. For example, Napoleon tricks the animals into thinking concepts that are not true. “Throughout the whole period of his seeming friendship with Pilkington, Napoleon had really been in a secret agreement with Frederick,” (31). This shows that Napoleon lied to the animals about which farm he was going to sell wood to. Furthermore, this also illustrates that the animals might not trust Napoleon if he continues to lie to them. Additionally, Napoleon is an untruthful menace who will do nothing to help the farm or the animals. “Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples,” (12). This shows that Napoleon is trying to
Napoleon uses propaganda to persuade the animals in his favor and to change history. He is able to use propaganda effectively because he has the brains to do so and has the power to make the other animals believe it. He knows that the other animals are not as
In chapter 6 it states “You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?... The animals reassured him at this point immediately, and no more was said about the pigs sleeping in the farmhouse beds.” So with all the animals believing that nothing is wrong and them not knowing anything on the powerful moves that napoleon is doing it keeps them at peace and causes nothing to go completely wrong just
Napoleon was a leader who led with an iron fist. A fist he used to secretly abuse his fellow animal. He began by raising several ferocious dogs to aid him in enforcing his rules, laws, and expectations. Using them, he abruptly ended Snowballs reign by using the dogs to exile him from the farm. Shortly after, he halted the construction of the windmill. More often than not he would cleverly work his way around the seven commandments by altering them to his pleasure. For example, 'Now animal shall drink alcohol to excess.'; Or 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.'; Napoleon grounded the rations of each and every animal. The farm slowly fell into a dark abyss with every wretched move Napoleon made.
First of all, Napoleon is a huge Berkshire boar and he clearly is the most powerful of all the animals. He was able to take complete leadership of the farm because he secretly trained the dogs to attack Snowball. George Orwell writes, “ ‘Never mind the milk, comrades!’ cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets. ‘That will be attended to, the harvest is more important’ (817). Napoleon is quite demanding none of the animal’s even question his authority because they know that he has more control than any other animal. Throughout the novel Orwell has many quotes that describe Napoleon as a leader, “ ‘long live Comrade Napoleon’ ” (846). All the animals on the farm (no matter what Napoleon did to them) would treat him as a powerful leader and whatever he said they would do. Often Orwell stirs up controversy about the rebellion, “ ‘forward in the name of the rebellion. ‘Long live Animal farm!’ ‘Long live Comrade Napoleon!’ ‘Napoleon is always right.’ Those were his very last words, comrades’ ” (849). Squealer’s letting everyone know that no matter what happens to Animal Farm, just remember that Napoleon was an outstanding leader most of the time. Napoleon was an outstanding leader and contributor to Animal Farm without his power the farm would have collapsed earlier.
Therefore, we can say that Napoleon was not much of a good leader whom the populace could never speak of as someone to be remembered. He did not need to worry about anyone sharing power with him because he headed every