Napoleon's Power In Animal Farm By George Orwell

Talking animals that are, in there own sense, intelligent enough to overcome

the reign of humans who malnourish, abuse, and over work farm animals sounds

like a blast to the “comrades” of the Manor farm. When the humans drink a little too

much booze and forget to feed the animals, they’ve had enough. They fight the

owner, Mr. Jones, in a battle to overcome the farm and win. At first the farm

prospers, with both Snowball and Napoleon leading the group. But Napoleon refuses

to share his power. He raises dogs to keep order on the farm and to chase Snowball

away. All is good with Napoleon, the fellow pigs, and the dogs in charge. The animals

don’t realize what is happening, but Napoleon’s power is constricting and becoming

tighter until one

Napoleon runs off snowball, kills

many of the animals by the use of his vicious dogs, and changes the commandments

to fit his wants. The illiterate animals are oblivious to all of the changes being made

and continue to work hard to obtain the common goal; build the windmill. Even

when it is blown up to pieces, the animals continue to build. This causes extremely

long work hours, a lack of food, and famine to all of the animals on the farm. In the

end, the animals are watching the drunken pigs converse with the farmer of

Pilkington. For the first time, they notice that they can no longer see the difference

between animal and pig. Allegory is what makes the whole book meaningful. It

shows the extremity of communism in a simple, easy to understand way. Symbolism

makes a mockery of communism and what it stands for. The windmill in the book is

a literary reference to “impossible dream”. It was never going to work out no matter

how much the people tried. Irony pulls the emotion out of you and makes you angry.

Dramatic irony is used to show that the animals are being tricked. We know