Character Analysis Of Napoleon In Animal Farm

Animal Farm Character Analysis Paper – Napoleon Napoleon is one of the main characters in the book, Animal Farm. He is one of the pigs on the farm. The pigs are regarded as the smartest animals on the farm. Napoleon represents Joseph Stalin, the former dictator of Soviet Russia. The name Napoleon represents this character well. Napoleon sounds like a name given to someone who is very powerful and ruthless. After Mr. Jones is removed from the farm, Napoleon and Snowball fight to rule the farm. In the middle of the book, Napoleon gains control of the farm by chasing Snowball off with the nine guard dogs that are under Napoleons control. Napoleon becomes the dictator of Animal Farm and breaks all the rules that are part of the Seven Commandments throughout the book. The first rule is “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.” He broke this rule at the end of the book, when all the pigs decided that walking on two legs was better. Which is ironic because the pigs became the enemies of the rest of the …show more content…
Napoleon uses Snowball as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong on the farm. The book says this “Every night, it was said, he (Snowball) came creeping in under cover of darkness and performed all kinds of mischief. He stole the corn, he upset the milk-pails, he broke the eggs, he trampled the seedbeds, he gnawed the bark off the fruit trees. Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball. If a window was broken or a drain was blocked up, someone was certain to say that Snowball had come in the night and done it, and when the key of the store-shed was lost, the whole farm was convinced that Snowball had thrown it down the well.” Snowball did none of these things that Napoleon said he did. He accused Snowball of these bad things to make Snowball look bad, but he was actually trying to hide that he was the one who was