How does Napoleon use his power to control the animals?

During chapter VI in the book Animal Farm, Napoleon, one of the main characters is forced to use his power to have a total control over the animals. This power is used in three main ways: Propaganda, Intimidation and lies with intelligence. In order to convince the animals to follow the structure of the farm, Napoleon uses propaganda by manipulating the laws and changing the way that the farm works and this follows the purpose of covering the failure of the windmill . "Never to have any dealings with human beings, never to engage in trade, never to make use of money" (Orwell,1945, p47) These three laws are broken by Napoleon  because as the windmill is not in a good state, he changes those basic 3 rules to be in contact with a human who will support the building of the windmill and will prevent the revelation of a possible failure of it to the animals. Intimidation is also used to convince deeply the animals that Napoleons ideals are right and to avoid the emergence of oppositions. "but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs" (Orwell,1945, p47) As we can see, Napoleon uses intimidation through his loyal dogs who silent the protests of the young pigs that were against his ideals. So as a result he gets the attention of all the animals that think he is right. Finally, Lies are used to have the control of the animals with the superior intelligence of Napoleon. He changed  some laws and sends Squealer to convince the animals and say that those laws were already there. "No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets" (Orwell, 1945, p50) Here there is a clear evidence of a false statement introduced in the basic law of the animals that told that no animal shall sleep in a bed but Squealer sent by Napoleon`s orders, lies to Clover and Muriel by telling them that this law was already there without changes and the reason to this is that sheets are an invention of human so they are bad.

Bibliography:

Orwell, G. (1945). Chapter VI , Animal Farm, p 47-50.