In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, two pigs by the names of Snowball and Napoleon rise to power on their now human-less farm. While both have periods of success and failure, they accumulate and maintain their power in different ways. Orwell seeks to convey the leadership of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin through the pigs, Snowball and Napoleon respectively, as they each use some similar techniques but implement their own skill sets differently. Both pigs take advantage of the animals’ intelligence, or lack thereof, but Snowball uses his charming personality and humility to make himself a leader equal to the other animals, while Napoleon uses fear tactics and manipulation to reign supreme. Orwell’s point of comparison in leadership between the …show more content…
Just like Stalin, the pig found it easier to instill his rules and principles if the a Jamal's feared him. Napoleon raised a small army of dogs (which represent Stalin’s secret police) to maintain a level of power that only fear can provide. The pure intimidating the animals felt was depicted vividly by Orwell, writing, “Silent and terrified, the animals crept back into the barn. In a moment the dogs came bounding back…Though not yet full-grown, they were huge dogs, and as fierce-looking as wolves” (53). The animals had no choice but to cower in fear to this new militant-like force that would punish them for any mistake. Since he head the power of fear in his hands, Napoleon (like Stalin) was able to use propaganda and manipulation to completely win over the animals. He did whatever he wanted, and convicted the animals it was all for the god of the farm. Even more, he would give them a common goal (the windmill) to distract them from tall the corruption on the farm, and unite them. A major factor of his manipulation was scapegoating Snowball, as Stalin did with Trotsky, to divert all negative feelings toward someone else. The most important example of this is when the windmill was knocked over, and Napoleon tells the animals, “Snowball has done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his
In Animal Farm, the pigs relate and connect to Joseph Stalin and the Russian Revolution because they both had power and gained leadership through agitprop technics (Stults). “How easily totalitarian propaganda can control the opinion of enlightened people.” -George Orwell. This famous piece of literature, Animal Farm, was written by George Orwell himself around 1917 to 1945 after WWII because peasant farmers wanted to have a better life in general. In the book, Napoleon shortly becomes the leader after the rebellion. Just as Stalin had done, Napoleon used military force onto the animals and intimidates them. Snowball represents Trotsky because he is a forward-thinking politician that wants to improve and help out with the windmill, but is chased out by vicious dogs Napoleon sends before he can do so. Like Stalin, the pigs build up and gain their power by manipulating the animals with propaganda techniques.
The history of the human race follows a plot detailing the struggles and triumphs of various individuals with the concepts of power and control. In George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm, these elaborate concepts are further explored through various characters such as the shire boar, Napoleon. Napoleon’s ability to exercise control over the animals derives from his capability to indoctrinate them with his partial ideologies. Napoleon then further clasps his power by his avail of expert power throughout the novel. Finally, the excessive and abusive use of coercive power, secures Napoleon’s control over the animals. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm Napoleon assumes the reins of power over the animals and controls them by means of physiological manipulations.
Snowball and Napoleon held a great deal of contrast between the way they each ruled over “Animal Farm/Manor Farm.” The only thing he did lack, was the ability of pursuasion to the other animals. Snowball had all the right ideas, all to better the whole farm. Napoleon, on the other hand, had a knack for stealing other animals’ ideas, then telling the rest it was his and getting credit for it. His ideas only seemed to benefit the pigs and not the animals. It was this, that led to the crumbling of the farm. Napoleons obsession with becoming the ruler is what got Snowball nearly killed by the dogs...in a plot made by Napoleon. Which then produced a whole new rebellion not of the animals to the humans, but of the animals to the pigs. So for these reasons, Snowball showed better qualities for leadership than Napoleon because he wasn’t selfish and thought about the future of “Animal Farm.” First, the dominated farm animals viewed Napoleon and Snowball differently at different times throughout the book. The way the animals reacted to each leader brought upon new problems of the farm. The animals respected Snowball, and believed that his teachings were all true and had a good cause. Although Snowball and Napoleon had superior qualities leadership, it was clearly Snowball who had the better qualities for running a farm. Under Snowballs’ rule, the animals were generally content with what was going on and were all for it if it was to better the farm. It was obvious that Napoleon had the better half of getting his own way on the farm. However, the animals had some problems with Napoleon but they didn’t know haw to express their feelings and show him that they didn’t like the way he ran things. It was the animals’ ignorance that helped keep Napoleon in rule for as long as it was. The responses were so different between the animals that it must have been a drastic change between Snowball and Napoleon.
Pigs walking on two feet, horses and sheep talking. This is how George Orwell satirizes human nature in his classic novel Animal Farm. Animal Farm is an allegory of the Russian Revolution of 1917. The title of the book is also the setting for the action in the novel. The animals in the story decide to have a revolution and take control of the farm from the humans. Soon the story shows us how certain groups move from the original ideals of the revolution to a situation where there is domination by one group and submission by all the others. The major idea in this story is the political corruption of what was once a pure political ideal. Orwell uses satire to ridicule human traits in his characters such as Napoleon and Squealer. There are several different characters in the novel utilizing animals as symbols of people in real life during the Russian Revolution. Napoleon is the leader of the pigs that ultimately come to dominate the farm. The characteristics that we associate with pigs , lazy, greedy, and pushy are meant to symbolize the characteristics that the leaders of the Russian Revolution exhibited. Napoleon is admired by all of the animals because he is their leader. All of the animals believe that their leader wants to fulfill all of their needs. They also are convinced that Napoleon’s decisions are made the best interest of the animals. Napoleon’s piglike qualities are shown throughout the story. He exhibited greediness when he sold the dying horse, Boxer to a slaughterhouse for money so that he and the other pigs could purchase whiskey. Orwell ridicules human nature through Napoleon in the sense that he is trying to show how the greedy and power hungry eventually end in corruption.
One of the main characters of Animal Farm is an allegorical parallel of Joseph Stalin. Napoleon is the pig that emerges as the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. He represents the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in Animal Farm, but can easily stand for any of the great dictators in world history. Napoleon seems at first to be a good leader, but he is eventually overcome by greed and becomes power-hungry. Stalin was the same in Russia, leaving the original equality of socialism behind, giving himself all the power and living in luxury while the peasants suffered. While Stalin’s national and international status flourished, the welfare of Russia remained unchanged. In Animal Farm, Orwell writes a similar thing: “Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves richer – except of course the pigs and the dogs.” In the novel, Napoleon openly seizes power for himself by using the dogs he trained to chase Snowball off Animal Farm. He banishes Snowball with no justification and rewrites history in order to further his own ends. Similarly, Stalin forced Trotsky from Russia and seized control of Russia. Stalin used his secret police ...
Snowball and Napoleon are battling for control of the farm, they both want to be the leader because they know that the leader has the most privileges. The animals that are in charge, the pigs, do less work than the other animals. "All that year the animals worked like slaves." The title of leader is highly sought after, because the leader tells everyone what to do without actually having to work. The pigs not only do less work but they receive more food. "Once again all the rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and the dogs." The fact that the pigs receive more food than the other harder working animals, shows that the farm is full of inequality. This type of governing is wrong, and Orwell wants it to stop. Less power should be given to the leader, so that the leader and his followers can be more equal. Once a group or an individual obtains power, it is impossible to manage it correctly.
Napoleon is a callous animal who takes control of Animal Farm and kicks out Snowball; Napoleon narrates everything he is doing everything for their betterment, which I infer with limpidity is a misleading statement! In my perspective, I think that Napoleon shares a numerous of characteristics with Donald Trump, the most prominent characteristic is they both use fear as their most dominant weapon. Donald trump is using the fear of ISIS to get people to vote in his favor, Donald questions the safety of America and states, it will only be safe without Muslims. This is similar to how Napoleon is using the fear of farmer Jones to make the animals give him power. Donald Trump’s aspiration is to get rid of all Muslims, right? Well, similarly Napoleon wants to get rid of all Humans! With the authority that might belong to Donald Trump, he may take advantage of other races (by doing the same thing, he did to Muslims) like Hindu, Sikh, etc. This is much like how Napoleon started to take advantage of the other animals after getting rid of Farmer Jones and Snowball.
...their greedy eyes they saw no reason to save the other farm animals. The book gives as little evidence of any pig showing protest to Napoleon’s actions except of course Snowball and the other three executed pigs.
The relationship surrounding Snowball and Napoleon in George Orwell's Animal Farm tends to be on rocky grounds. Snowball, a clever pig, tends to be loyal, brave, and outgoing. These are just a few excellent qualities of a leader. Napoleon, a boar, on the other hand, is quite frankly rude, wretched, and full of greed. Both have had their share of leadership on the farm, yet both have had their share of conflict as well.
Animal Farm is another book by George Orwell that involves animals on a farm going against humans that take care of them and humans from other farms. They are being led by three pigs named Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer. These pigs portray different types of historical figures such as Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, and Hitler ruling a Totalitarian society (Other animals on the farm)."I warn every animal on this farm to keep his eyes very wide open. For we have reason to think that some of Snowball's secret agents are lurking among us at this moment."(Orwell, Animal Farm 82) Snowball eventually was forced out of the group as he was against Napoleon's way of ruling. In this quote, Napoleon and Squealer mention Snowballs “Secret Agents” or spies
The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell who became famous from his most known allegorical representation of the Russian Revolution has well depicted the idea of the revolution through animals and events on a farm. In this idea, Orwell very well makes the idea of the revolution clear and simple by shining light on the cruel way Napoleon treats the animals on the farm. As the audience can see the characters develop they have a very clear understanding that this is based on real life counterparts, as well as the characters displaying numerous differences of the real life events. The character Napoleon who is based on Joseph Stalin have both similarities and differences as seen in their leadership,continuation of ideas, and the name of their societies.
Snowball’s character, based on the head of the Red Army’s leader, Leon Trotsky; both were similar with success in debates and the constant disagreement with Stalin and or Napoleon. Major debates held between Trotsky and Stalin, or with Snowball and Napoleon, people started to take sides which in real life formed the Leftist and Rightist. Pigeons sent to send to rally for Animal Farm and for him to help him win debates. He soon won the debate, due to majority rules, that was when Napoleon began plotting, Snowball explosion. Snowball came up with the idea of the Windmill to help gain more profit, towards the farm and finished the blueprints for the windmill soon after. Snowball went to tell all the animals about his idea of a windmill but,
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, a main theme is that power corrupts those who possess it. A definition of corruption is,“dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.” Orwell develops this idea through the character Napoleon in various ways. Looking back in the book, the animal’s rebellion quickly turned political and revolved around, “Leader, Comrade Napoleon (Orwell 81)”. The power Napoleon possed was executed through lies and selfishness, aided by the lack of intellectual ability in the other animals. The corruption of Napoleon’s power is displayed when he favors himself, along with the other pigs, and eventually the dogs, who all get better rations of food compared to the other animals. Another main demonstration of how power corrupts Napoleon is how he separates himself from the other animals on the farm, displaying his feelings if superiority to the other animals. A ceremonial nature develops towards Napoleon. The last way power corrupts Napoleon is how he acts recklessly; killing other animals and lying about
It was the glorious speech from Old Major that made the animals want to rebel so badly. Animal Farm, written by George Orwell is an excellent novel that portrays the need for power. It shows how power can be used for either good or evil. The story begins on Manor Farm, owned by a farmer named Mr. Jones. One of the pigs, named Old Major, gives a speech that motivates the animals to rebel. After a while, the animals ended up rebelling, and managed to kick out Mr. Jones. During the beginning of “Animal Farm’s” reign under Snowball and Napoleon’s (main characters) lead, it brought the animals on Manor Farm together into a peaceful world. However, after this initial stance of power, Snowball and Napoleon began to fight for it. In the end, Napoleon ends up with control of the farm and Snowball is never seen again. Power is a corrupting influence in Animal Farm and both Snowball and Napoleon’s way of leading are very different.
For a small while, the animals have everything under control, but soon, two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, become hungry for power. Both pigs tries to gain support for themselves, and both pigs used different methods. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, Snowball's leadership style is a polar opposite of Napoleon’s leadership style. The way each leader goes about gaining support is different.