In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, two characters, Napoleon and Boxer, show what happens when a victim chooses to stay silent after seeing injustice happening to them and how their life changes. Napoleon was one of the leaders at Animal Farm. Napoleon was not a good leader and took the power from Snowball by force. Once Napoleon was the leader he started breaking roles that Old Major made before the rebellion. He started breaking the rules by starting a business with Mr.Whymper. He convinced the animals by taking the responsibility of trading on his own shoulder. Napoleon forced the animals to work hard, harder than in Jones' days. He forced hens to give up on their eggs, so he could trade with Whymper. Those hens who did not want to give up on their …show more content…
By doing that Napoleon broke another rule which was no animal should kill other animals. After that he changed the law to no animal should kill another animal without reason. He did that so other animals would not protest or blame him for what he did. Napoleon also was a selfish leader who always ate the best food at the farm and was sleeping on the beds which was breaking another law from the past. Once Again he changed the law to no animal should sleep on a bed with a sheet. Napoleon kept his power by lying to other animals and giving them wrong information about farm development and their food rate because the other animals were not educated, they believed everything they were told, and Napoleon never stopped taking advantage of that to make his and the pigs' life easier at the farm. By the end of the book, Napoleon and the pigs started wearing clothes and started walking on two feet just like humans. They even had wipes
It was a great feeling, to stand on two legs, to feel superior. Napoleon quite enjoyed this feeling; controlling all of the animals. He often even liked to deceive the minds of humans. Even though they were smarter, they were often fooled into trusting the pigs, and the pigs greatly profited from this weakness.
Well with all jokes aside, the animals are certainly not free under Napoleon’s rule. For one thing, the animals did not have to work as hard or as much under the Jones. In the act of Napoleon becoming more like ruler than helping everyone out ( kind of like Snowball). The animals are manipulated to work harder
Napoleon knew the alphabet faster than any other animal on the farm, and was able to use that against them. . Because he was so wise he could change the writing on the rules to fit his boundaries, while the other animals would not know. “Clover learned the alphabet but could not put the words together, Boxer could not get beyond the letter D.” (Orwell 28) The other animals struggled, and that led the perfect opportunity for Napoleon.
"When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out" (Doc B). "When it was all over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body. They were shaken and miserable…” (Doc B). This evidence helps show how Napoleon is able to stay in charge because it shows how Napoleon uses violence to insert fear within the animals.
These three reasons are why animals were too scared to overthrow him and to be free from his rule. One example of how Napoleon stays in charge is Animalism. Animalism was meant to be set in place keeping any animal from having more power than the others. Napoleon uses this to his advantage by having a basic first set of commandments which is “reduced to… ‘Four legs good, two legs bad.’
The pigs took away rights and lives of their own citizens as did the Soviet’s, which helps teach what the book was trying to show that when these political figures gain such power, that they should not use it to only their advantage but to everyone’s. This can be represented at the end of the book when Napoleon has a meeting with humans and starts to resemble the humans exactly. This is because Napoleon used his power for his own well-being like the humans and eventually resembled one. “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” pg.124 The image of the pigs appearance is tarnished by the way the pig treated his citizen as did Stalin.
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
One way he does this by using the pups to bark and growl at the animals. This helps Napoleon stay in power because if the animals are scared, they know that they should not to mess Napoleon. This helps Napoleon because it makes the animals afraid to argue and talk to him about leading all of the animals and staying in control. Another reason how Napoleon stays in power is my scaring the animals by telling them, “Jones would come back!” (Doc C, Chapter 3)
Napoleon is going power hungry and does what ever he wants so it looks like he isn't doing anything bad for the farm but the animals are starting to catch on. Another way that Napoleons actions and experiences go with him being really power hungry is that in the book on the farm he secretly has dogs that he takes and trains to follow and listen to him no matter what. He trains the dogs to always do what he tells them to, in the book it says, “ they were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately.
He would kill any animal that got in his way or wasn’t working hard enough. An example of this was when Boxer was found laying down in the field, he didn’t try to help him, he just sent him away to the slaughter house. Also, Mr. Jones didn’t just treat some of the animals badly, he treated all of the animals bad. This is bad, but it is not near as bad as what Napoleon was doing to the rest of the animals. They both made the animals work harder than they needed to which ended up making life on the farm
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”.
To the recollection of the other animals, this was against the seven commandments. By the time the animals went to check the commandments, he had changed it to read that an animal can not “sleep in a bed with sheets”(Animal Farm). Napoleon takes advantage of the stupidity of the animals by manipulating them into believing that he was never wrong. This event on the farm is similar to an event during COVID when the mayor of Denver encouraged the people of Denver to stay home for Thanksgiving, but he flew to go see his family (Chicago Tribune). Both of these figures said one thing in the beginning, then did the exact opposite by the end.
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.
And it’s getting worse when he selled boxer to a slaughterer to have money for buying more alcohol, even if all of the barley is already reserve to the pigs. He begin to act like a human, meet them, smoke, drink alcohol and wear clothes. To show that all of the goal of the first rebellion never continue that way, they change the song Beast of England and the name of the farm for “Manor farm”. Napoleon didn’t do what the revolution had wanted. The animals follow him, respect him even if they didn’t have to.
He convinces them by making up scientific facts that using your brain is more exhausting than physically working all day. Since he is the smartest and one of the only ones who knows how to read, he can get away with making up facts. Once he got away with getting extra food, he decided to assert his power in harmful ways. Napoleon started to change the seven amendments of Animal Farm, which were sworn not to be changed, and started to rewrite the past. “‘It says, “No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.”