Napoleon gained his power in about chapter four of the book. He persuades the animals into thinking that he is going to make the farm a better place. Napoleon says that he is going to keep these rules as a promise …show more content…
He was an awful ruler, and a dictator to the animals on the farm. The Seven Commandments, written by Old Major, were broken one at a time, and the animals were lead to believe that Napoleon was still following the rules, even though he wasn’t. The dictatorship continued as long as Napoleon was in power. He worked the animals until they could work no more, he starved them until they absolutely had to eat. Napoleon’s ruling is significant because he had rules of a dictator, a rule that he would be treated like a king. All of the animals were to act as if he was higher than them, even though one of the Seven Commandments was that all animals were to be treated equally. The power of Napoleon was significant because of the downfall. His power caused him to become one in the same with humans, and the animals had no respect for him anymore. Napoleon is the reason that all the animals are starving, working long hours, and even dying. He caused the animals to be just like they were before Old Major had passed away, and were ruled and thrown around like bean bags by the humans. The humans who drank until they were drunk, slept until they had to wake up, and sold the animals until there was nothing