Napoleons Ambitious Reign
In George Orwell’s allegorical novel, Animal Farm, Napoleon takes his dominate reign to a level of despair with his inhumane morals and the segregation he forces upon the animals. He builds himself up to an eminence beyond any other leader. He becomes a cynical and crazed pig with power after he banishes Snowball, who was the so called better leader. Although after all his hype was over, he becomes “untouchable” in a sense, with only having a few willing supporters. In the end it seems that Napoleon destroys what was once a harmless dream of Old Majors.
Throughout the fable Napoleon was no democrat, with his twisted techniques of propaganda and forceful persuasion. He was not one for freedom of speech, and had no care for anybody but himself, although with Snowball still around he seemed unable to display his full leadership skills. Even with Snowball seeming to be the stronger leader, Napoleon had still managed to round up a clique of followers for himself. This group eventually grew as Napoleon became more bitter and demanding of the animals. He established this initial power by disagreeing so strongly with Snowball, which lead to arguments, thus leading to animals having to pick sides. With the commandments written on the wall and the second being “Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend” just shows how evil and cunning Napoleon becomes as he decimates Snowballs power. For example, with the starting idea of a windmill getting built (brought up Snowball) Napoleon just disagreed profusely to the thought of it all to get attention. As he thought, the more attention, the more power he would therefore gain.
Napoleon, the quiet yet prominent leader, takes a stand with a dominating and fearing new way of controlling the farm. He had plotted his every move, not so wisely some might say, with his sidekicks (the pigs) to help him