What Is Napoleon's Abuse Of Power

Animal farm and Metamorphosis are attempting to ensure their readers that if any individual has power over someone or a group of people, he can regulate the way they live their life and can restrict their freedom. Just imagine a student being utterly controlled by her teacher like a robot, humiliated by her teacher and constantly scolded by her teacher often for no reason. That feeling of anger, exasperation and humiliation just stays inside the student, and she can not do anything about it. This same thing implements to the connection between the people under a dictator's rule who have that same feeling of complete inability to act on their own free will.That one dictator has the total power over his people and can manipulate whatever he
It is because Napoleon desired to have everything for his own benefits and wanted all the luxuries. The author Orwell implied the character of Napoleon being greedy. The author also described Napoleon as a “fierce looking Berkshire boar who had a reputation for getting his own way.”(Orwell, Pg 14) By that, Orwell means Napoleon was hungry for every luxuries and wanted to take everything, not caring about others. Corresponding to Metamorphosis in which a man by the name of Gregor transforms into an insect and virtually all his human abilities were vanished; attributes like strength and vocal communication. When Gregor’s father realized his form, he took the advantage of this opportunity and took away all his luxuries and locked him in a room. The reason behind this is likewise to Napoleon’s case, greed and having the pleasure to watch Gregor suffer in isolation. It is indeed interesting that if one person gets the full power, he can completely change others life. But there is one key difference between the way how the characters(Napoleon and the father) from the two novels reached the position which allowed them to have the full power over the
His father threw an apple at him, which left Gregor’s back paralyzed. “Gregor's father gets the brilliant idea to chuck apples at Gregor. Not having the strongest arm in the biz, Gregor's father can only weakly lob apples at Gregor, who keeps scuttling around the room. Finally an apple lodges into Gregor's back and pins Gregor to the floor.”( Kafka pg. 23) This quote clearly interprets how brutal a person with power over someone can get. Being tortured is certainly not a good feeling. In both the novels, the characters who were controlled and tortured did not like the way they were living. Their reactions also contribute to make the readers understand the