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Who Is Napoleon A Good Leader In Animal Farm
In the book Animal Farm, you see many examples of leaders, although they are not all great. One of the worst leaders would be a character named Napoleon. It is possible to view him as a great leader, but I choose to do otherwise. Napoleon is an awful leader; he breaks his own laws, he’s fearful and uses propaganda to manipulate animals in a negative way.

Napoleon on numerous accounts has “broken” his own rules. When I say broken, he technically didn't break the current rules in place, he broke old rules that he had changed through propaganda and lies. A leader who cannot follow his own rules cannot expect his disciples to follow him or his rules. He sleeps in beds, is willing to kill, and trades. These are the things that animal farm’s revolutionist, Old Major, viewed as the worst things possible. These are the things that resemble humans. The one thing that animal farm is supposed to not be; human-like. The worst part about all of it is that he covers it up through propaganda.
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He manipulates the people and alters their memory. He changed the sacred commandments, to better benefit him and his immediate cohorts. A great example of this phenomena is a horse named Boxer. There was an event that resulted in the collapse of a windmill that was in midst of being built. Being true to who he is, boxer stood up to the challenge and was the main worker in the rebuilding of the windmill. This took a heavy toll on him and, and eventually, he was shipped off to a glue plant. Boxer believed that Napoleon was always right and died because of

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