The Importance Of Control In George Orwell's Animal Farm

Dictators all have one thing in common-they know how to manipulate others into believing every word they say while gaining power and control. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, Napoleon, a pig, decides to take control of the farm and dictate their every move. In order to gain full control of the farm, Napoleon drove Snowball, another pig, out of the farm by using his dogs that he trained to follow his every command. Three days later, Napoleon decides to start building the windmill which originally was Snowballs idea and “He did not give any reason for having changed his mind, but merely warned the animals that this extra task would mean very hard work; it might even be necessary to reduce their rations”(Orwell 71). With the help of his smooth talking right hand man Squealer, Napoleon managed to carry out his plans with no trouble from the other animals. Napoleon has changed the commandments with no protest, he communicates and trades with the humans whenever he pleases,

When the animals wake up Squealer manages to convince them that the commandments have not changed and that they have simply forgotten or that they are possibly remembering them wrong. One night in specific, Squealer was trying to change yet another commandment but fell off of the ladder. The animals rushed outside to see what had happened, but they did not understand why and how squealer was lying on the ground. The goat, Muriel, was “reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong”(Orwell 113). It was at this point, another animal besides Benjamin, had noticed that there was something wrong going on at the farm. In changing the commandments at night, Napoleon thought that he could get away with it by making it seem that it was the animals and not Napoleon who was responsible for why the commandments seemed