Napoleon In Animal Farm

In the novel Animal Farm written by George Orwell, there are a variety of characters in this story. The character that is the best to describe is Napoleon. Napoleon is a big Berkshire boar with an aggressive character, savage instinct towards everyone, and an arrogant feel for superiority. A way to describe Napoleon’s infamous dictatorship is how he changes the rules to correspond to his needs for superiority, a quotation where it explains this is “It ran ‘No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.’ ….But they saw now that the Commandment had not been violated; for clearly there was a good reason for killing the traitors who had themselves with Snowball” (Orwell 91-92). This demonstrates how Napoleon likes to abuse his authority to change the rules in his favor.
Another way to explain Napoleon is that he thrives on conflict and bloodshed to feed his savage instinct, for example “They were all slain on the spot. And so the the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones” (84). This tells us that Napoleon will execute anyone that defies him for the most irrelevant reasons. It also explains to the reader that by showing fear he can control everyone that he wants since he does such atrocious actions in public. The final way to image Napoleon are the things he accomplished behind everyone’s back and how he began to proclaim himself leader in an aggressive manner. The passage tells the events in this way, “Too amazed and frightened to speak, all the animals crowded through the door to watch the chase. Snowball was racing across the long pasture that led to the road. He was running as only a pig can run, but the dogs were close on his heels. …..In a moment the dogs came bounding