Dictatorship And Power In George Orwell's Animal Farm

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing”. A resonating quote of the novel 1984 from George Orwell to another piece of his writing Animal Farm that interprets the process of establishing dictatorship and power through methods of intimidation, rectifying of information, and the structure of power distribution. Napoleon the leader in the story provokes fear to control the animals. To that end he must starts by obtaining military power that forces the animals to abandon the original way of animalism and adapt to changes and embrace his systems. Examples are using “the three dogs who … growled so threateningly” (Orwell, p58) when an unfaithful member turns up, and altogether with his 9 hounds as his guards and army, they become a representation of the significant physical strength of Napoleon as they present obedient under his command. They are also a symbolization of faithfulness as in reality dogs tend to be tamed easily to

A leader that’s not worth being faithful to can refer to a character like Napoleon, who do not owns power for the well being of all the animals and the future of communism but his own greed and will. On the other hand, a character contradicting to him is the Old Major or Snowball whom is also a character foil of Napoleon, those two characters although do not had the ability to bring happiness and peace to animals but holds the belief and hope of a better future for all animals as it’s described in the book “In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the animals’ backs.”(Orwell, p52). Thus, by hiding his identity and motive of establishing permanent dictatorship under the name of communism and by rectifying information according to his current needs Napoleon is successful in retaining his ruling position in the Manor