Reasons For Napoleon To Blame For The Failure Of Animal Farm

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In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, the animals on the farm overthrow the farmers and set out to create a perfect society ,known as Animal farm, where all animals would live free of human control. At its peak all members were equal. The pigs took charge and created rules for the farm. Over time their leadership became corrupt as they changed for their advantage like the “No animal shall sleep in beds.” With that rule in place the pigs still slept in beds, while the other animals weren't allowed to sleep in the beds. The new leadership abused their power which resulted in the fall of Animal Farm. Although Animal Farm failed for a variety of reasons, Napoleon is the most to blame for the failure of Animal Farm. Napoleon is the reason animal …show more content…

Napoleon’s decision to constantly change the rules allowed corruption on the farm, but he made other decisions that also led to the failure of the Animal farm. Some people argue that the failure of Animal Farm could be blamed on Squealer because of all the propaganda Squealer produces; however, Napoleon is the most to blame because of his corruption as a leader. Napoleon once again changed the rules. He changed the rule “Two legs good four legs bad.”He changed the rule after he was seen walking on his hind legs. After this incident Napoleon changed the rule to “four legs good two legs better.” FInally he broke the commandment “No animal shall wear clothes”. After Napoleon and his comrades began wearing the clothes that belonged to MR. And MRS. Jones. Overall, it is clear that Animal Farm failed because of Napoleon’s actions to go against his own rules. The failure of Animal Farm should be completely blamed on Napoleon because of his actions on the farm. He was a corrupt leader, he went against his own rules. LIke the no animal shall kill each other and the drinking of alcohol rule. He also broke rules like wearing clothes and sleeping in

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