Lust For Power In Animal Farm

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Animal Farm is a book, by George Orwell, about an animal rebellion. The characters all have many traits, and different attributes. Napoleon has stood out the most to me, he is a boar that lives on Animal Farm. He as well as Snowball, the other boar, lead the rebellion, and later scares away Snowball and becomes the leader. Napoleon has a lust for power, is very persuading, and feared. First of all, Napoleon has a huge amount of lust for power. For example, “Snowball stood up...set forth his reasons for advocating the building of the windmill. Then Napoleon stood up to reply. He said very quietly that the windmill was nonsense and that he advised nobody to vote for it, and promptly sat down again,”(Orwell 38,39). Napoleon knew that Snowball’s…show more content…
Therefore, to try to gain more power, Napoleon suggests things that oppose to Snowball’s ideas. Secondly, Napoleon is very persuasive. “Napoleon was well aware of the bad results that might follow if the real facts of the food situation were known, and he decided to make use of Mr. Whymper to spread a contrary impression. Hitherto the animals had had little or no contact with Whymper on his weekly visits: now, however, a few selected animals, mostly sheep, were instructed to remark casually in his hearing that rations had been increased. In addition, Napoleon ordered the almost empty bins in the store-shed to be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which was then covered up with what remained of the grain and meal. On some suitable pretext Whymper was led through the store-shed and allowed to catch a glimpse of the bins. He was deceived, and continued to report to the outside world that there was no food shortage on Animal Farm,” (54). Napoleon had changed the rules on Animal Farm and had human contact. He had shown persuasiveness by persuading the animals that this human contact for them was
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