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ANIMAL FARM   About 80 per-cent of all the animals on Animal Farm completely followed the seven commandments.   The other 20 per-cent of the animals would rarely follow all the rules and they were often treated like a piece of dirt.   All the animals on Animal Farm were treated differently according to their social status, where in today’s society everyone should treat everyone equally.   The characters in Animal Farm had many diverse characteristics, some of the animals were powerful, stupid, and sneaky.   First of all, Napoleon is a huge Berkshire boar and he clearly is the most powerful of all the animals.   He was able to take complete leadership of the farm because he secretly trained the dogs to attack Snowball.   George Orwell writes, â€Å" ‘Never mind the milk, comrades!’ cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets.   ‘That will be attended to, the harvest is more important’ (817).   Napoleon is quite demanding none of the animal’s even question his authority because they know that he has more control than any other animal.   Throughout the novel Orwell has many quotes that describe Napoleon as a leader, â€Å" ‘long live Comrade Napoleon’ † (846).   All the animals on the farm (no matter what Napoleon did to them) would treat him as a powerful leader and whatever he said they would do.   Often Orwell stirs up controversy about the rebellion, â€Å" ‘forward in the name of the rebellion.à ‚   ‘Long live Animal farm!’ ‘Long live Comrade Napoleon!’ ‘Napoleon is always right.’ Those were his very last words, comrades’ † (849).   Squealer’s letting everyone know that no matter what happens to Animal Farm, just remember that Napoleon was an outstanding leader most of the time.   Napoleon was an outstanding leader and contributor to Animal Farm without his power the farm would have collapsed earlier.   Also, basically all the animals on Animal Farm were pretty dumb, they could not read or write.   After Old Major’s death, just three days after presenting his vision to the animals, Snowball and Napoleon quickly become the leaders in planning for the Rebellion because they were the only animals that were smart enough.   Besides from Napoleon and Snowball all the animals did many stupid things on the farm.   The characters in Animal Farm said a lot of stupid things throughout the whole story, â€Å" ‘He is dead, said Boxer sorrowfully.   ‘I had no intention of doing that.   I forgot that I was wearing iron shoes’ † (822).