Napolean gained power. As he got more, the more he wanted to keep for himself. It turned him into…well, a pig. Originally, his intentions were good. He wanted to free the far. As the story goes though, Orwell shows the readers how he morphs. He shows him eating and drinking with the ‘enemy’ and making deals with them. He refuses to share power and offs those who are suspicious or try to take more for themselves.

From the very beginning of the novella, Napoleon emerges as an utterly corrupt opportunist. Though always present at the early meetings of the new state, Napoleon never makes a single contribution to the revolution—not to the formulation of its ideology, not to the bloody struggle that it necessitates, not to the new society’s initial attempts to establish itself. He never shows interest in the strength of Animal Farm itself, only in the strength of his power over it. Thus, the only project he undertakes with enthusiasm is the training of a litter of puppies. He doesn’t educate them for their own good or for the good of all, however, but rather for his own good: they become his own private army or secret police, a violent means by which he imposes his will on others.

Although he is most directly modeled on the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, Napoleon represents, in a more general sense, the political tyrants that have emerged throughout human history and with particular frequency during the twentieth century. His namesake is not any communist leader but the early-eighteenth-century French general Napoleon, who betrayed the democratic principles on which he rode to power, arguably becoming as great a despot as the aristocrats whom he supplanted. It is a testament to Orwell’s acute political intelligence and to the universality of his fable that Napoleon can easily stand for any of the great dictators and political schemers in world history, even those who arose after Animal Farm was written. In the behavior of Napoleon and his henchmen, one can detect the lying and bullying tactics of totalitarian leaders such as Josip Tito, Mao Tse-tung, Pol Pot, Augusto Pinochet, and Slobodan Milosevic treated in sharply critical terms.

in the beginning, napoleon is really trying to help the animals and set up a society where nobody has all the power. but as time goes on, napoleon takes all the power simply because he has some and wants more. (absolute power corrupts absolutely) he then becomes a dictator just as bad, if not worse, than the farmer. the little power that napoleon had drove him to take more until he takes it all.

Hey, great book, read it. I read it in 1968. And also his other great book, “1984”. 1984 came and went and nothing really happened….but it is happening NOW in our society.

Or you could buy the CLIFF NOTES for a couple of dollars, used… and be the smartest kid in the class.

for a moment there i thought you meant the other one where the women dies from engagement with a horse