Mr. Frederick. They added that Snowball had privately admitted to them that he had been Jones’s secret agent for years past. When they had
finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything
to confess.
The three hens who had been the ringleaders in the attempted rebellion over the eggs now came forward and stated that Snowball had appeared to
them in a dream and incited them to disobey Napoleon’s orders. They, too, were slaughtered. Then a goose came forward and confessed to having
secreted six ears of corn during the last year’s harvest and eaten them in the night. Then a sheep confessed to having urinated in the drinking pool –
urged to do this, so she said, by Snowball – and two other sheep confessed to having murdered an old ram, an especially devoted follower of
Napoleon, by chasing him round and round a bonfire when he was suffering from a cough. They were all slain on the spot…”
Napoleon is harsh as well as ruthless in his acts. With the help of his nine wild and trained dogs, he slaughters anyone who is said to be disloyal and dishonest.
Whereas he defends himself by making a change in the commandment “No animal shall kill anther animal” to “No animal shall kill another animal without
cause.”
7. Exploitive
Napoleon pays no attention to the welfare of the animals under his command. He makes the other animals work harder than the pigs with unfair
working hours while the rations are not shared equally 66: “The winter was as cold as the last one had been, and food was even shorter. Once again all rations
were reduced, except those of the pigs and the dogs.” The pigs and dogs, who do the least work get the most food while the rest of the animals have to squabble
over tiny piece of food.
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8. Paranoid
Despite of being the tyrant leader of the farm who is feared by his citizens, there is a scene that proves Napoleon described as a paranoiac. He uses the dogs
as guards for his room. He uses a pig to taste his food before he eats it, as he is scared that someone has poisoned his food. 57: “Four dogs guarded his bed at
night, one at each corner and a young pig named Pinkeye was given the task of tasting all his food before he ate it, lest it should be poisoned…” This tells us that
he feels insecure about his own safety.
9. Manipulative
Another characteristics of Napoleon based on his mannerism as a method to identify character’s personality according to Murphy 1972: 161 – 173 is
manipulative. Napoleon announces that all animals would have to work voluntary on Sunday afternoons, but any animals who absented herhimself from it would
have herhis ration reduced by half 37: “Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty-hour week, and
in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animals who
absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half…”
That is not a choice, with food rations being as low as they were. Beside that, Napoleon also changes the original Seven Commandments to legitimize what he
does like drink alcohol, sleep in beds, dealing with humans, and so on. His attempt to hide the illegality of these moves by literally changing the wording of
the commandments is symbolic of a tyrant’s disregard for truth and ethical considerations.
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10. Authoritative
