The animals never do stand up to Napoleon though. If they had only stood up for Snowball, perhaps they would not ever have had suffered through Napoleon’s despotic reign. Without Snowball’s influence, any who attempted to speak against Napoleon were violently silenced, or made an example of through public execution. For the rest, it became quickly apparent that to step out of line meant death. Some animals were simply too dumb to understand what Napoleon was doing. Many of the dumber animals, like the sheep became unwitting pawns that could be easily convinced of anything and made to say whatever Napoleon pleased. A time eventually came where any who were either smart or courageous enough to dissent were dead or too old to doing anything about
