B. How do Napoleon’s Motivations represent his Personality?
Most of Napoleon’s characteristics described on the novel are negative ones. The following is to see Napoleon’s motivation in doing the negative actions
based on his characteristics as described in the first part of this chapter. In analyzing this section, I am going to divide motivation into two types according to
Huffman, Vernoy, Vernoy 2000: 401, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
1. Napoleon is Tricky
The most obvious actions that describe Napoleon as a tricky creature are when he takes Jessie and Bluebell’s puppies, his false words about Snowball and
how he lies to the animals about sending Boxer to the doctor. There is a motivation for Napoleon when he takes Jessie and Bluebell’s nine puppies, which
is for the preparation to banish Snowball from the farm. He knows that he can get benefit from those puppies, as it is them who throw out Snowball from the farm
soon after the puppies have grown enough. Not only that, with nine strong and enormous dogs beside him, there will be no one who dares enough to stand on his
way to be the sole leader of Animal Farm. According to Huffman, Vernoy, Vernoy 2000:41 this action is an intrinsic motivation. The main motivation in
doing this is for Napoleon’s own sake by expels his companion leader, so that he will be the sole leader of the farm.
Napoleon’s motivation by informs false words about Snowball to the animals is to make the animals to see him as a wise and good leader. On the other
hand, they consider Snowball as the traitor who attempts to disturb their farm. This action is an intrinsic motivation since there is a competition between
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Napoleon and Snowball. By doing this, Napoleon receives the satisfaction in his competition with Snowball as the animals consider him as a better leader than
Snowball. Napoleon’s motivation is to pretend to be a good and wise leader who
cares about his dying citizen very much when he said that he sends the old and weakened Boxer to the hospital. He also has another motivation which is to toss
away Boxer who is no longer valuable for him to the house slaughterer. This action is intrinsic motivation. It is a pleasure for himself in doing this since
because of their stupidity, most of the animals believe that Napoleon stay in Boxer’s last moment until his last breath. The animals thought that Napoleon
cares about Boxer very much. Not only that, there is another satisfaction for Napoleon by tosses away Boxer from the farm since for Napoleon the old and
weakened Boxer is no more than a burden or responsibility for him. There is a relieve of pressure for him by remove one of his useless citizen out of the farm
2. Napoleon is Egoistic
