How Does Napoleon Change In Animal Farm

Napoleon is a pig from the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. Napoleon has gone through one of the largest dynamic changes in the book. He started off as a quiet pig in support of the rebellion, but his desire for power turned him into to a dictator leading a totalitarian state. He has changed by becoming more oppressive, more like humans, and corrupt throughout the book. In the beginning of the book he was described as, “a large, rather fierce looking Berkshire Boar… not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his way” (Orwell, 16), and “The work of teaching and organising fell upon the pigs… two young boars named Snowball and Napoleon” (Orwell, 15-16). He believed in Old Major's message; though it was never directly stated, it can be assumed because he did play a major role with Snowball in the construction and teaching of animalism. This demonstrates at the beginning of the book he was a involved and good disciple of animalism, and not the murdering and oppressive leader he becomes later in the book. This establishes his state at the beginning as a faithful revolutionary.
Napoleon doesn’t stay that way for long as he slowly becomes more oppressive. Some examples of this are on page 59, “This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations cut reduced by half” (Orwell, 59), …show more content…
One example of this is on page 66, “Nevertheless, some of the animals were disturbed when they heard that the pigs not only took there their meals in the kitchen and used the drawing room as a recreation room, but also slept in beds” (Orwell, 66). For a system of government based on anti-humanity, Napoleon does enjoy the human lifestyle. Animalism strictly prohibits Napoleon’s actions. At the beginning of the novel, Napoleon would not have done that, but he now disobeys the very system he fought for and helped create. This establishes a major difference in character from the