"Chapter 6 and 7 show us Napoleon's willingness to distort the truth, to lie and to kill in order to retain and increase his control of Animal Farm."

Contention: Napoleons willingness to distort the truth, to lie and to kill in order to stay superior in animal farm is emphasized in chapter 6 and 7.

3 reasons why:
The terror.
The changing of the rules.
The hen’s revolution.

Some say money and power are the greatest things in the world, all of them not giving any sympathy to anyone else but themselves and in Animal farm by George Orwell this is shown greatly by a pig called Napoleon whose willingness to distort the truth, to lie and to kill in order to stay superior in animal farm. Which is also emphasized in chapters 6 and 7. This is shown threw the terror the changing of the rules and the hen’s revolution. But out of all the ways to seize power, death shows the character of the person and what their willing to do.

The terror shows us that napoleon is willing to do anything to retain power. The terror was when napoleon killed all the animals that had “sided” with Snowball, or was a “traitor” against Napoleon. Even though most of the animal’s barley did anything wrong. This showed the animals that napoleon will go to any measure to retain power of the animals but most of all to get rid of all the “traitors” and people plotting against him. Because he is so obsessed with getting power, equality has completely gone out the window and his bloodlust comes out. So to cover up his psychotic behavior he uses poor little Snowball who I think has actually not done anything wrong, as a scape goat for napoleons demented mind. If Napoleon is power Hungary enough to kill then he will probably break the rules to become more powerful.

The changing of the rules shows us how napoleon gets out of trouble when he seizes power. Even though Squealer seemed to be the evil one that changed the rules that night when the animals found him hurt because he had fallen off the ladder changing them, Napoleon is the true bad guy behind this because Napoleon abused his power to tell squealer to do it. Because of all the luxuries napoleon wanted like the beds, beer, to get rid of his “enemies” in the terror, money from Mr. Whymper, and the farm house he needed to once use his power and slightly changed the rules just enough so he could get away with these problems. Of course he made up some absolute bull of a story that all the animals either read it wrong or just have a bad memory, not only the dumb animals like the sheep, but even he said the smart ones forgot like Boxer and Clover. In the first stages of the changing of the rules were napoleon started to trade with humans and the hens were effected greatly, but they didn’t take to kindly to it.

The hen’s “mini” revolution is another pivotal event where napoleon shows his willingness to retain power. In the hen’s revolution napoleon demands 400 eggs per week but the hens refuse saying it is “murder” so they fly up to the top of the rafters and laid there eggs off the roof. So in result Napoleon took away their food so eventually they gave into napoleons demands. In total 12 hens died in their revolution, 9 by starvation and 3, the leaders of the revolution in the terror that napoleon conducted. This again shows that napoleon is willing to kill to retain power, even if it costs a couple of eggs he has to get what he wants and what is apparently good for the farm. It tells me that he dose not care about anyone else until he gets, in this case, his eggs, what he wants. But they’re more than eggs; they will turn into money which will turn into more power, making napoleon even stronger. Yes Napoleon is smart, and yes it was stupid and still is for the animals to follow him. But when did it become necessary to put money and power before blood and your brothers.

So overall Napoleons willingness to distort the truth, to lie and to kill in order to retain and increase his control of Animal Farm is shown mainly threw the terror, the changing of the rules and the hen’s revolution. But what could have sent napoleon on such a greed lust, from the old days of old major, were everyone was equal with no exceptions to the corrupt civilization napoleon now calls animal farm is far beyond me. So we can only hope that the next generation’s leader of animal farm, or Russia, is more like Old major and less like Napoleon.