I'm at my best friend's birthday party. Seems fun, right? Not in my perspective; there's this girl, and she seems to be controlling the whole party. It seems like everybody is basically surrounding her. Sometimes I wish that I was popular and had that kind of power -- but knowing me, would I overuse it? When someone gets ahold of power, sometimes the power will go to their heads and make them do things that you wouldn't expect to be done. This type of situation is exactly what happens in Animal Farm by George Orwell.
People think that having a lot of power is the most that a person can get in life -- but it's not. Having good friendships is one of the most valuable things in life. If your friend suddenly had a lot of power and started to misuse it, how far would you go to stop and help them? Some people would do almost anything to keep their amount of power and make sure that nobody could steal even one tiny drop of it from them. One of the times that Napoleon made this mistake was when everybody started to agree with Snowball, Napoleon decided that even though Snowball was his friend, he didn't want any of his power stolen from him. This problem is relevant with Napoleon in the novel; thinking that he has all of the power in the world.
Besides the fact of betrayal of friendships, Napoleon made up rules for the farm. He said that if any animal were to disobey these rules, they would be executed. Napoleon realized that the rules were a little sketchy, so he changed them and fit them to his needs -- without telling the other farm residents. Since he already had too much power to deal with and has his own little pack of followers, once he broke the rules, there were no consequences for him; but there was for Snowball. Everybody thought it was an excellent thing to walk on two feet, even though it was clearly against the Seven Commandments before the animals knew that he had changed them. When a person like Napoleon develops this extent of power, you might finally be able to tell what kind of person they truly are beyond all of the lies.
At the point in time where a person maximizes the quantity of power that they are not able to grasp, the corruption inside of their brain starts to take over. No matter what you do, now there is no way to bring that person back to what they used to be before this problem even began. Since Napoleon abused his position, all of his so-called "friends" left him, he was left alone by himself for a while and then eventually stuck like a human forever.
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