A command is not always obeyed and/or agreed upon. Unless you are involved in the military or some sort of stick order system, people will not nessasarly obey you. People usually would like a reason for their orders, making sure that what they are to do is not a waste of their time. But there is something that can increase your chances of people to follow you even in the most rediculuos and doubting situations. It is persuasion. In the book animal farm written by george orwell, the most intellegant creatures on the farm, the pigs, were grasping the other animals attention through persuasion. However, not all the pigs persuaded the farm animals the same way. Major and Napolion both had different ways in gatting the other animals to follow their orders.
Major, the pig that inspired the animals to revolt against the humans, persuaded the farm through using words of wisdom and agreeing with all point of views of each animal. This is shown in his speech when he questioned “how many thousands of gallons of milk have you given? [...] [to hens] how many of those eggs have you laid in this last year, and how many of them have hatched?” (pg 29). Here major is pointing out to the farm that their life is miserable. What makes his speech so persasive is that he uses real life examples as evidence to back up his point. His words of wisdom cannot be argued against or proven wrong. Major was able to reason out in a way which made the animals freely followed him.
Napoleon uses a different way to persuae his audience into following him. Whenever he fials, he always uses a scapegoat to keep the animals following and supporting him, thinking it is never his fault. Napoleon frequently used Snowball as the scapegoat. An example when this occurred was when he proclaimed “Comrades, do you know who is responsible for this [ the dystruction of the windmill]? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL” (pg 82). It is very unlikely snowball played part in the dystructon of the windmill. The night of the windmill’s colaps, there was a heavy storm that was so strong it managed to rip off part of the roof and that is most likely the cause of the collapse. Ever since napoleon took charge, he never took resposiblilty for milstakes. He always tried to make himself look clean and as an ausome leader. Napoleon also began to rule the farm but no longer for the animals but rather for napoleon himself. Things changed forever. Napoleon no longer carred what the other animals thought. He did not need to. He started to use a new form of persuasion; fear. Now napoleon had some fersive dogs that would do anything he told then to do. The dogs had the ability to kill on order, so no longer did the animals have the ability to disagree but they had to do everything as told. They had fear from their government.
There are two main ways one can persuade someone into following his or her order(s). it is either achieved with agreement and benefits/changing ones mind, or it is achieved by showing fear such as devastating penalties, that communism is all about. Major had the words of wisdom that were able to turn the tides and bring a new life for the animals. Unfortunately the wise pig died and chaos began to arise. Major inspired the uprising for the benefits of the farm and himself. Napoleon however used fear to drive his government . he used his killing dogs that had the ability to kill anyone napoleon ordered to be killed. Since napoleon had such superiority, he became tempted and abused his power. No longer did napoleon rule for the animals but rather for himself .Napoleon made the farm treat him as a king which all must worship. He no longer focused on the benefits of the farm but rather all for himself. He had all the power ( thanks to the dogs) and there was no one there brave enough to fight back and say that it is wrong.
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