How Did Napoleon Become A Tyrant

Humans aren’t the only ones that can become tyrants. Animals rebelled against their cruel human farm owner, Mr. Jones. The farm the animals lived on is called Animal Farm and is all run by animals. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, Napoleon, a boar, is becoming a tyrant because he cares more about a windmill than the animals suffering from starvation and he uses Squealer to lie to the other animals.

One reason Napoleon is becoming a tyrant is because he cares more about a windmill than the animals starving. For context, Napoleon is making the animals build a windmill and the farm is running out of resources to build the windmill. Napoleons acts like a tyrant by saying “the needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said. He was therefore making arrangements to sell a stack of hay and part of the current year’s wheat crop” (Orwell 63). When Napoleon said “the need of the windmill must override everything else,” it means he thinks building a windmill is more important than harvests, defending …show more content…
For instance, after the rations of all the animals except for the pigs were reduced, Squealer lied to the animals that “they had more oats, more hay, more turnips than they had had in Jones’ day “and other things to tell the other animals that they are living better under Napoleon than under Jones (Orwell 113). Squealer’s claims aren’t true because he doesn’t have any evidence for his claims and the animals are easily manipulated so they will believe Squealer is telling the truth. In reality, the animals are starving and cold. Squealer is saying how much better their lives are to stop the animals from rebelling and making them trust in Napoleon’s leadership. If your government is actually giving you a better life, you wouldn’t want to overthrow it. Napoleon uses Squealer to lie to the animals which causes Napoleon to become a