Napoleon

Why should we question our leaders? We love them! We know they will always make the best decisions for us, so why would we ever need to be distrustful?
Animal Farm is a great answer to this question. And the character Napoleon perhaps exemplifies this best of all the characters. All the animals trust him. “Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character.” They assume he has more moral and intellectual power than the rest of them, and indeed the other pigs. This is one of the things that lead to them trusting Napoleon completely. Napoleon then starts to, once granted power by the animals, wreak havoc on the non-pigs of Animal Farm. The sheep, dogs, and Boxer especially start to idolize him, believing anything he does as justifiable as “Napoleon is always right!” If the animals questioned Napoleon and their leaders in general more, the farm would have remained happier and more equal, like at the beginning of Animal Farm. What we should take from this is that our leaders are not always right, and we should continue to question them as we do usually.