In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell. George Orwell shows, how a group of animals comes together to accomplish anything. This book demonstrates leadership in a community, and how a community can change very fast. One example of this is the main leader Napoleon and Snowball. Snowball wanted what was best for the farm. And Napoleon didn't want Snowball to be in charge because wanted what was best for everyone. This caused Napoleon to chase Snowball out of the community. This fast change is because of poor leadership from the pigs taking over. The pigs convinced the other animals to go against their own leader, this is because he was saying how if they broke free how it would be so much better for them. But later the pigs ruled in fear because …show more content…
This creates it so it's hard for a community to trust most people/ leader in power. This makes stereotypes, these stereotypes could be like that one animal is like the other and cares about how the village and not just about themselves. This might have an impact on the place/village later on in time as there is more development within. This essay is a closer look at what it takes to trust a leader. Which might lead to betrayal, you also might get brainwashed by their leader. This has a great effect on how a village develops over a short period of …show more content…
Napoleon told Squealer to start slowly changing the commandments on the farm wall, so the animals would never notice they were changed, leading to trickery with the animals. One piece of evidence for this is“In addition the almost empty bins in the store shed to filled nearly to the brim with sand.”(pg 75) This quote shows how Napoleon promised a lot to these animals with all the things Jones didn't do for them or provide for them. Napoleon never stood up to conflict, this is because he didn't want to have a bigger target on his back than he already did. This also showed how things got a lot harder in a short period of time for all the animals, except the pigs. For example, the pigs never worked at all and the piglets were in school, all the animals had to work many more hours on top of what they usually do. This is also showing how they are working really hard yet the leader is trying to hide that they don't have enough food. This causes the animals to get smaller portions unknowingly. This is also tied to the animals not trusting Napoleon when they needed him the most, when they were starving to death. But yet again Napoleon was selfish enough to collect the eggs to sell them to buy himself alcohol. This really brings out Napoleon's true colors and this made me see him for himself for the first
Napoleon makes a new government and gets all the animals to follow it. What got the other animal to follow was the main idea of keeping away from human lifestyles. Snowball was exiled by Napoleon because he told the other animals that Snowball was a traitor. The support from the other animals and Napoleon made it easy to put all the blame on Snowball. When really Snowball did nothing wrong.
Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character.” Napoleon and Snowball worked together to run the farm. Their difference in views was what kept the farm functioning in addition to happy. The reader can see their differences through their debates, “It was always the pigs who put forward the resolutions. The other animals understood how to vote, but could never think of any resolutions of their own.
The farm had filled with positive energy, everyone encouraged each other. Greatly different from Snowball’s compassion, Napoleon’s heart was only filled with power and his own selfish desire. Even if the farm became richer, everyone would like freedom instead of living in fear of Napoleon. For the sake of the animal’s livelihood, Snowball should take the place of Napoleon and stay in the Animal Farm to govern the animals.
Napoleon made a substantial impact on the way the animals reacted to their new hardships. The pigs, including Napoleon, are said to be the most intelligent animals on the farm, but unlike the others, Napoleon uses it to manipulate the
The animals in Animal Farm represent different groups of people and political ideologies. The story reveals the dangers of totalitarianism and the importance of democratic principles. Napoleon's rise to power and leadership style in Animal Farm mirrors Stalin's rise to power and leadership style in the Soviet Union during the Russian Revolution. Both Stalin and Napoleon were ruthless and cunning leaders who used propaganda, violence and fear to maintain his power.
The second tactic that Napoleon uses is loyalty to the farm. The quote shows that the animals are loyal to the farm by upkeeping the farm in which they do it for themselves, “All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves…” (Orwell 73). The quote proves that the pigs worked the other animals like slaves.
Snowball wanted to carry out the dream. Snowball was the pig who challenges Napoleon for control of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. He is based on Leon Trotsky; Snowball is intelligent, passionate, eloquent, and less subtle and devious than his counterpart, Napoleon. Snowball seems to win the loyalty of the other animals and cement his power. The loyalty of the other animals was important to life and also in
Napoleon then become ruler, and is said to be a very good, wise pig. Napoleon knows that he has all the power because the pigs are the wises animals on the farm, being considered wise, every animal did what he said This is where the power goes to bad use and messes up the whole farm, the main reason that they overthrew the human owner was because of the way he treated the animals and the way he ran the farm, Old Major wanted ever animal to be equal. Since . Napoleon and the other pigs were breaking their own rule that they made and adjusting them to their benefit. They started to have human like characteristics, killing other animals that were in no stable condition, overworking animals.
Furthermore, Napoleon gives the other animals the impression he was the sole leader of the rebellion on Animal farm and makes Snowball -a leader who wanted what was best for the animals- seem like an enemy who was in cahoots with Farmer Jones since long before the animals took over the farm. Napoleon and Squealer (another “fat cat” pig.) always put the blame on Snowball whenever something went wrong in the farm to avoid having the blame fall on them. Napoleon is an exemplary example of just how selfish and hypocritical people can be in furthering their own aims because he continued to subtly but purposely change the seven rules put in place as the pillars of animalism. For example, Napoleon and the other pigs move into Farmer Jones’s house and sleep in his bed after commanding “No animal shall sleep in a bed”, so he changes the commandment to read “no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets”.
He had great ideas, he wanted to educate and unify the animals. Snowball is braver and participating, he sacrificed himself for the animals during the battle of cowshed. Napoleon is more interested in gaining personal power than improving the animals lives. When Napoleon begins to notice Snowball has been effectively leading the farm, he had to stop him. Napoleon has been secretly training the puppies he took from their parents when they were born to be his soldiers.
The animals start recognizing Napoleon for any good achievement done that day. For example, one of the hens recognizes Napoleon for just one stroke of good fortune. “Under the leadership of our Leader Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days…”(78). These poor animals are tricked into thinking that everything good that happens is due to “Comrade Napoleon's Leadership”. Every quote we see is a deeper level of corruption in Napoleon, and now, his influence on the farm is tearing what the revolution was all about.
He left after the revolution of the animals that Old Major begin. When he died, they begin the rebellion. When the farm was now for the animals, the pigs took the control of it. Napoleon begin to be in competition with Snowball, because he had a lot of idea, others liked him and he was the pig that decided the most.
He raises a secret police force, comprised of guard dogs he had trained from a young age, to invoke fear and command t clear that Napoleon's actions undermine the principle of equality stated in the farm motto. His exile of Snowball can be seen as a miscarriage of justice and a tug point fordetox and for Napoleon’s descent into dictatorship. Specifically, during the line “Forward Comrades, the hay is waiting!” Napoleon takes control of the situation and later on declares himself the sole leader. His abuse of power is also prominent when the narrator states that ‘The pigs had now taught themselves how to read and write,’ This acts as a precursor to the manipulation of the commandments and effectively conveys one of the reasons the pigs are held superior to the other animals.
Napoleon has no interests towards the Animal Farm but only his power over it. Unlike Snowball who fought against Jones bravely, Napoleon did nothing to protect the Animal Farm. Napoleon is “not much of a talker” (35) and only contributes a little during the Meeting. Napoleon is not interested in Rebellion or fighting as long as he has power over the Animal Farm but only thinks about his benefits. After the first Rebellion, Napoleon acts as if he cares about others, saying “the harvest is more important” (44) and they should “never mind the milk” (44) when in real, he tries to divert their attentions from milk in order to steal it for himself.
He called upon a meeting where he killed innocent animals because of suspicions that they were involved with Snowball. These events showed the true intention of Napoleon, and later we see him walking on two legs, which goes completely against animal farm’s motto “four legs good, two legs bad” and eventually starts wearing clothes, carrying a whip, and being more humanoid than animalistic, this really shows how similar Napoleon was to Mr. Jones, he wasn’t any different, and in fact strived to be exactly like their former tyrannical human masters. “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” this quote from the book really speaks volume to how governments and people of high power act; they say we are all equal while they hold themselves up on a