Friday 18 October 2013

What are some examples of Napoleon abusing his power in Animal Farm?

There
are lots of examples to choose from ofabusing his power. He abuses his power, for example, by
rewriting the past. He convinces the animals thatwas an enemy from the start, and that it was
he, Napoleon, and not Snowball who led from the front in the Battle of the Cowshed, and he, not
Snowball, who was injured in that battle. Napoleon rewrites history like this throughout the
story, and this is perhaps the most significant way in which he abuses his power, because it is
so invasive. He essentially exercises power over the minds of the other animals.


Napoleon also exercises power over the animals physically. He uses his dogs to
intimidate and inflict violence upon the other animals. At the show trial in , for example,
Napoleon has his dogs firstly tear out the throats of four pigs accused of betraying him and
then kill instantly several other animals who confess to minor crimes like hiding ears of
corn.

At the end of the scene,describes "a pile of corpses...

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