Napoleon's Role In Animal Farm

In the novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell, Napoleon the Pig has the greatest impact on this story. Napoleon is the main villain in this book and he gains control over all of the other animals on Animal Farm. Napoleon uses many different tactics to maintain his control over the farm and the animals. One of the ways he ensures control is the use of fear. Another would be his use of bodyguards. And a final way that he kees control is the fact that he keeps changing the laws. This shows how Napoleon has the greatest impact on the story.

One of the many ways that Napoleon shows that he is the most infulencial role is how he controls the other animals with fear. Napoleon make animals confess to crimes that they did not commit and then he

This shows that these pigs were tortured by the dogs which are the secret police of Napoleon. When these pigs had been brought up on the sand they say, “They were the same four pigs that had protested when Napoleon abolished the Sunday Meetings. Without any further prompting they confessed that they had been secretly in touch with Snowball ever since the expulsion, that they had collaborated with him in destroying the windmill, and hey had entered into an agreement with him to hand over Animal Farm to Mr. Frederick. They added that Snowball had privately admitted to them that he had been Jones’s secret agent for years past. When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything else to confess.” (Orwell 83 -84). With these two quotes it shows how these pigs were enemies of Napoleon for protesting and were tortured by the dogs and that they confessed to numerous crimes.

He uses a pig named Squealer to change the commandments on the barn so they can better suit his needs. When the animals go to consult the commandments they say, "Some of the animals remembered -- or thought they remembered -- that the Sixth Commandment decreed, 'No animal shall kill any other animal.' And though no one cared to mention it in the hearing of the pigs or the dogs, it was felt that the killings which had taken place did not square with this. Clover asked Benjamin to read the Sixth Commandment, and when Benjamin, as usual, said he refused to meddle in such matters, she fetched Muriel. Muriel read the commandment for her. It ran: ‘No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.” (Orwell 91). This shows that the animals remember the commandment being different but it was changed so Napoleon could get away with the executions shown in the last paragraph. The fact that he has the ability to change the rule of which the other animals live by makes him the most influential character in the