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How Napoleon Stood In Power
How Napoleon Stood in Power Napoleon ruled with an iron fist over the animal farm, and was an unjust ruler who always put himself first and did not care for others. Napoleon used Animalism, propaganda,fear, and a secret militia of attack dogs to stay in power uncontested and eliminate any potential threats.This essay will go through all the ways that napoleon breaks his own rules and how he is dishonest to the citizens of animal farm, just to stay in power.(This is all conceived from the book Animal Farm written by George Orwell)
One of the many ways that napoleon stays in power is by animalism. Animalism is a government made up by the pigs, it has seven commandments but can be simplified into “Four legs good, two legs bad”. The pigs changed the commandments throughout the story so that the commandments will benefit them and only them. For example there is a rule that no animal shall drink alcohol, and the pigs took it upon themselves to change the rule while they were under the influence themselves! The new rule read(italics mean the new part) ‘no animal shall drink alcohol to excess” The pigs eventually changed all of the commandments into one rule which read” All animals are equal but some are more equal than others”.
Another way napoleon stayed in power is the use of fear. In the early part of
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If some of the less intelligent animals started to see that things were unfair they held a small event or discussed it with squealer who would lie and make stories on how great napoleon is. The best use of propaganda is when the pigs said that jones would come back if they didn't listen to the pigs. And they made Snowball an scapegoat so everything that happened was blamed on him including if they already knew the actual cause for the tragedy. They weren't allowed to say napoleon's name unless it was formal too, indicating that he was the highest ranking official on the

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