Napoleon In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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The character I chose to explain on Animal farm is Napoleon written by George Orwell. Napoleon is self-centered,immature,and untrustworthy.Animal farm is a book about the animals fighting for equality. How do you think these animals and Napoleon will run the farm without a human?Will there be conflict or reforms about the farm? we’ll see. Napoleon is abusing his power and authority as a leader and I chose Napoleon because he seems like a interesting character that plays a big part in animal farm. He believes he is a “good” leader Napoleon is a large boar, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar with a reputation for getting his own way. He was being breeded by Mr. Jones. This essay will demonstrate and explain Napoleon and his poor leadership …show more content…
“At the meetings snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times.”(47 Orwell) To explain the quote describing Napoleon’s trait, what it is trying to say is that Napoleon can never agree with anything simply because he thinks it does no good for him. He wants things his …show more content…
It’s possible that he might’ve been jealous too. Napoleon decided to act that certain way instead of having a respectful,brief, private conversation with snowball but chose to do the immature thing. We all know Napoleon is known to have things his own way and he’ll do anything to get his way.Lastly, Napoleon is untrustworthy. “ Except through Whymper, there was as yet no contact between Animal Farm and the outside world, but there were constant rumors that Napoleon was about to enter into a definite business agreement either with Mr. Pilkington from Foxwood or Mr. frederick of Pinchfield but never, it was noticed, with both simultaneously.(66)To explain this, the quote shows how untrustworthy he is. The night after Old Major died, The 7 commandments were inscribed on the wall in the farm.The 1st commandment states that “ Whatever goes upon 2 legs is an enemy.”.Napoleon secretly made arrangements with a human. Mr. Whymper would visit the farm every Monday to receive orders from Napoleon. Napoleon disobeyed the 1st commandment and did things his own way, which isn’t

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