How is napoleons transformation being completed animal farm?
Once control was taken by Napoleon, he gradually set about
securing pig autonomy over the other abnimals, feathered his own
nest and set about vilifying Snowball and using him as a scapegoat.
The seven commandments were gradually broken by the pigs and each
time it was questioned, a new addition, or caveat, was seen to be
tagged on. The animals assumed they had merely forgotten the full
version of the original commandment. Each time a bad thing occured,
then Snowball was blamed. Evrything successful or beneficial to the
animals was explained as a result of 'Our Leader Comrade
Napoleon's' leadership and cunning. In a parallel of totalitarian
dictators, Napoleon started to decorate himself with spurious
rewards, see Idi Amin. He started to rewrite history and engaged in
whole rafts of disinformation. He sacrifices provisions and much of
the profitable produce of the farm in order to trade with
neighbouring farmers. The selling of Boxer to 'the knacker' is the
very worst sign of corruption. The profits are used to purchase a
case of whiskey for the pigs. The ultimate sacrilege is when the
other animals see the pigs walking on hind legs and cannot separate
them from their human counterparts. Orwell criticises and lampoons
communist Russian hypocrisy in terms of inner party members having
great benefits and being 'more equal' than other members of
society. A damning enditement of totalitarian idealism gone wrong.
Howevr, it is possible to trace the corruption and idea that
absolute power corrupts absolutelt in many of the world's
governments, irrespective of political persuasion.