Napoleon In Animal Farm Essay

Napoleon was a smart animal, so smart that he was not really active in the initial rebellion against jones. After the animals had rebelled, and Old Major’s death, Napoleon started to become a leader for Animal Farm. When he was introduced to the novel, the first thing the reader learned about his character was that he was "a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his way". During his leadership, his methods of being a leader were through cruelty and treachery. For example, Napoleon took nine puppies from their parents and began to raise them himself, no one knew why until the other animals see dogs suddenly appear with Napoleon. The dogs were fully …show more content…
He didn’t need to worry about these things because he got rid of public meetings, he named himself the head of every committee and because he had a great plan: “In these days Napoleon rarely appeared in public, but spent all his time in the farmhouse, which was guarded at each door by fierce-looking dogs. When he did emerge, it was in a ceremonial manner, with an escort of six dogs who closely surrounded him and growled if anyone came too near.” In this novel, it is unusual that none of the animals attempted to protest against Napoleon. It kind of makes sense because a lot of the animals on Animal Farm aren’t intelligent. When Napoleon tried to rewrite history, such as making it sound like Snowball was a villain and he, himself was a revolutionary hero, most of the animals, such as Boxer, were gullible enough to believe him. And the ones who didn’t believe Napoleon’s story, such as, Benjamin the donkey, just didn’t care. Napoleon's very first mischievous act came when he unleashed his private dog army on Snowball. The second came when he put a stop to the hen rebellion by having their food rations cut, which caused a great number of hens to starve to