Animal Farm Tyrant

In chapter XI, Napoleon broke one of the most significant rules. It was “no animal shall sleep in bed”. This commandment was changed to “No Animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets”. Squelar tries to convince the other animals that the rule was about SHEETS, through his ways of propaganda the animals believe squealer as none of them could understand the writing. Nearing the end of the book another one of the most important commandment is broken: “All animals are equal But some animals are more equal than others”.

The pigs are even able to make murder seem necessary by simply changing the commandments. When Muriel reads the commandments, “It ran: ‘No animal shall kill any other animal without cause. Somehow or other the last two words slipped out of the animals’ memory”

After appointing himself the leader of the farm, Napoleon immediately establishes a cult of personality and turns the power dynamics within the farm in his favor, thereby establishing himself as a dictatorial ruler. In doing so, he rewrites history, alters the commandments, and replaces them with his own set of rules that benefit him and his “loyal” pigs while disadvantaging the other animals. Additionally, Napoleon also enacted a policy of fear-mongering and terror to pressure the animals into compliance. In this way, he can make sure the animals remain subservient to him under the threat of punishment from his “loyal” pigs. He also uses his authority to establish a hierarchical system on the farm where his most loyal pigs are given the highest perks and spoils while the rest are given soilure.

Shortly after this was passed, the pigs began to use barley to make alcohol and they had gotten drunk for the first time, resulting in Squealer having to change the

In George Orwell's Animal Farm, Napoleon rises to power and gradually deteriorates his self image by misusing his power as did Joseph Stalin in the Russian

In the book the Animal Farm By George Orwell the character develops the theme of a power hungry manipulative pig for animals overthrowing the farm and humans. In the beginning of the Animal Farm book right after the rebellion when Napoleon was first nominated to be the leader of the animal farm he seemed like a

In Animal Farm, George Orwell warns how power will often lead to corruption. Napoleon was placed in a position of power after Major died, and he slowly starts to lavish in his power and become addicted to the lush life of a dictator. When Napoleon first becomes a leader, he expresses how everyone will work equally, but as his reign goes on, he shortens the work hours. At the very end of the novel, the observing animals even start to see that pig and man had become the same. The irony present in the above example, illuminates how regardless of how much a ruler promises to maintain equality and fairness, the position of power that they hold, will corrupt them.

They rewrite the commandments of animalism to suit their own interests, and they erase any references to the past that do not align with their narrative. For example, when Snowball, one of the pigs who initially supported the rebellion, is driven out of the community, the pigs paint him as a traitor and rewrite history to suggest that he was working with the humans all along. By controlling the narrative, the pigs are able to maintain their authority and suppress any dissenting voices. Another way in which the pigs use their power to maintain their authority is through the use of propaganda and violence. They use propaganda to control the minds of the other animals, convincing them that their sacrifices are necessary for the greater good.

Leaving leaders unchecked can have brutal consequences. In the Allegory, Animal Farm, Orwell created the character of Napoleon to portray a leader that took his own needs and put them in front of the well-being of the other animals. The animals look up to Napoleon and turn to him for answers on how to live a better life, but he neglects their needs. At the beginning of the novel, Orwell portrays Napoleon as a leader who has trouble influencing others. Napoleon leads alongside Snowball, but Snowball is a more persuasive leader.

Animal Farm In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, each character corrupted the farm, and one another's mindsets. The corrupted power the “higher” authority received led to a world of inequality and dictatorship with some having benefits and others working harder to make up for the others’ slack. The character who ran this dictatorship was Napoleon, the boar who made decisions for all the animals. The power he gained throughout the book caused others to follow him and their world to be corrupted.

First, George Orwell uses the pigs in Animal Farm to demonstrate that absolute power corrupts absolutely when Napoleon overthrows the farm. Napoleon teaches the pig how to walk on their hind legs. The 7 commandments state that “4 legs good, 2 legs bad”. Napoleon, however, decided to change this to “4 legs good, 2 legs better.”.

But as the months go on, the pigs change them to their benefit, giving them more power and luxury. The quote, “when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals remembered that the Sixth Commandment decreed ‘No animal shall kill any other animal’... Muriel read the commandment for her. It ran: ‘No animal shall kill any other animal without cause’,”(Orwell 98) shows that the pigs obviously change the commandment before the other animals got a chance to read it. This happens more times as the book goes on, and shows the pigs abusing their power by changing the commandments to fit their actions and desires.

The pigs broke rule number 4. “No animal shall sleep in a bed” ( Orwell 11) A little later in the same paragraph Clover asks Muriel if he could read the seven commandments. “ Muriel,” she said, “read me the Fourth Commandment. Does it not say something about never sleeping in a bed?”

This is demonstrated in chapter 7 when Napoleon executes the pigs and hens, using “the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately.’ once the pigs confessed, “the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess.” Other animals then come forward to discuss minor wrongdoings which then result in their executions, by the end of the executions ‘there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood,’ this leaves the other farm animals terrified of Napoleon, this was an effective way to suppress the animals as afterwards “no one dared speak his mind… when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.” Throughout the novel threats such as ‘Jones would come back’ becomes a common tool used by Squealer to manipulate the animals into cooperation. For example, while trying to convince the other animals that the pigs need the apples and milk, Squealer claims that ‘Jones would come back!...

The pigs don’t follow these rules. Some of the things the pigs do is drink alcohol, they killed other animals, and wore clothes. In the book it states that one night the pigs find a crate of Mr Jones whiskey. The following moreing Squealer comes to the farmyard late and says that Napoleon is dying. This is false because the