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Napoleon An Effective Leader In Animal Farm By George Orwell
Being an effective leader means that you are always looking to do whatever you can to better the lives of the people or in this case the animals who follow you. In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, Napoleon's actions and decisions for the farm are only to benefit himself. Napoleon is not an effective leader.
To start, Napoleon is not an effective leader because he is constantly deceiving the animals on the farm. First, he changes the commandments to only benefit himself and the pigs. For example, in chapter six, Napoleon and the pigs begin to sleep in the human beds, even though commandment number four states otherwise. Then, later in the chapter, the animals realize the commandments were changed. From what used to be, “No animal

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