Compare And Contrast Napoleon And Snowball In Animal Farm

Compare, they are boars and also brothers, Napoleon and Snowball want to be leaders of Animal Farm but they both dislike each other and try to kick each other out of the leader’s spot. Contrast, they both have different ideas and different beliefs. Napoleon puts his name on everything and claims it, and was very demanding. Snowball makes all animals equal, and believes the happiness in his citizens.

Firstly, Napoleon uses manipulation to generate a cult of personality in the Animal Farm. Napoleon directly shows how he manipulated the animals as he believed “...[weaker] animals on Animal Farm did more work and [would] receive less food than any animals in the country” (92).Napoleon shows how he only cares about himself as he uses the animals. He would make the animals do labour to support himself and to be powerful.The animals would agree to everything that he said because they believed that Napoleon wanted the best for them. Napoleon made the animals believe that they were in better conditions even though “starvation seemed to stare them in the face.” (50). He did a great job to hid the reality from the animals. His thoughts and

Ruling dictators and leaders always gain respect and power through clever articulate plans and persuasion. In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, describes a civil farm when the idea of independence brings an uprising among the animals against farmer John. Napoleon, a pig, takes the leadership role and gains power by cheating the animals written constitution and killing anyone who gets in his way. Napoleon’s public companions who are nothing but for him are the sheep. The sheep in the novel are shown to be the illiterate population on the farm. Napoleon used this aspect for his advantage to gain the respect he needs. The sheep are also a danger and a threat towards the powerful animals on the farm. Their large numbers would be extremely difficult

This leads to the animals to finally discover his true colors. After Snowball was ran out of the farm all public meetings were canceled. When Napoleon announced, “ that from now on the sunday morning meetings would come to an end. They were unnecessary and wasted time. In the future all questions related to working on the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs presided over by himself.” , he is no longer allowing the other animals input on situations. When they were under the care of Jones they still has some say on what went on. Now under Napoleon's authority they are left with no say so on what goes on. This shows he only cares about what he has to say. Now that he has stripped the animals of their opinions , his judgement is the only thing that goes. This builds to Napoleon's ego and how he assumes he is above everyone else. He doesn’t care for anyone else unless it somehow benefits him and this shows he abuses his power as

<br>While life following a dictator might have proved to be successful and reasonable for a short amount of time, after the actual conditions are understood by its inhabitants, it is almost impossible for it to prosper. The lack of voice and resources Napoleon provided for the other animals was simply leading to another rebellion. Power through the people is the only successful was for a society to prosper, as the people are the only ones who can complete the grudge work for the community to

We observe that many of the animals that confessed to committing these crimes were antagonistic to Napoleon since Snowball’s exile. The reason for this is because Napoleon started to abuse his power over the other animals. An example of this is the four pigs who protested against Napoleon’s decision to ban the debates. In this chapter those same four pigs are executed because they confessed of being in touch with Snowball and collaborated with him to destroy the windmill. Another example is when Napoleon wanted the hens to surrender their eggs, but they refused. Later on they confess that Snowball appeared in their dreams and incited them to disobey Napoleon’s orders. If we observe many of Napoleon’s tactics we see that fear is implemented on the farm in order to make the animals submissive

Towards the middle of the story, when the animals first began building the windmill, Napoleon needed the animals to work more in order to accomplish the regular farm tasks as well as the windmill construction. He used a statement that seemed to contradict itself, or a paradox, to get the animals to do extra work while still allowing them to feel as if they had a choice in the matter. The text stated, "...in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half"(Orwell 59). Napoleon's announcement contradicted itself because the work was not truly voluntary if the animals were punished if they did not do it. Snowball did not use paradoxes to persuade the animals; instead, he used card stacking. Early on in the story, Snowball proposed building a windmill to provide electricity for the farm. In his final speech to the animals before they were to vote on whether or not to build the windmill, Snowball listed all of the positive aspects of having a windmill and electricity, such as having machines do most of the animals' work for them and special features for their stalls. However, he did not mention any of the windmill's negative aspects, such as the

Then Napoleon stated, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” (Orwell, 90). He ruled that decisions would be made by the pigs in the committees, and also Napoleon abolished the “Beasts of England” so the animals won’t rebel against him. Snowball argues in favor of the windmill, but on the other hand Napoleon argues against it, saying that building the windmill will take time and effort. After the debate Napoleon calls nine relentless dogs who chase Snowball out of the farm. Three weeks after Snowballs disappearance, Napoleon suggests that the windmill will still be built. Later he sends Squealer to the animals to explain that snowball had stolen the plan of the windmill from Napoleon. Also it will make Napoleon look like a better leader than Snowball. “Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly” (Orwell, 51). He started to threaten other animals, and he ordered the hens’ rations to be stopped, and forced that any animal giving so much grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. He violated many of the seven commandments for instance one of the commandments was “No animal shall kill any other animal” (Orwell, 15). Nevertheless, Napoleon remains a growing problem in Animal Farm by becoming a dictator that takes an advantage of the animals so he could be

Holding all of the power on the farm, Napoleon makes all of the decisions on the farm for all of the animals without consent. He holds the animals to his word, without them truly noticing possible danger or change. Napoleon takes advantage of his power to make the animals perform certain tasks and major projects. “ ‘ No more delays, comrades!’ cried Napoleon when the footprints had been examined. ‘There is work to be done. This very morning we begin rebuilding the windmill, and we will build all through the winter, rain or shine’ ”(48). Instead of admitting to the storm destroying the windmill, he throws Snowball under the bus, to alter the animals’ train of thought so they would once again begin building the windmill. Having such great power,

In the novel, Animal Farm, written by George Orwell the main character Napoleon is willing to give up his friends, his kind, and his morals for the power he can achieve by manipulating his comrades. To demonstrate, George Orwell wrote, “In April, Animal Farm was proclaimed a republic, and it became necessary to elect a president. There was only one candidate, Napoleon, who was elected unanimously” (page 116). This quote reveals Napoleon’s deviousness and how he has controlled the pigs and other animals to make it seem like he is a great leader and had their best interest in mind. At the beginning of the novel, Napoleon was willing to rule the farm with the other pigs, but once he got a glimpse of what life was like with total power he could not resist himself from wanting ultimate control. This desire ultimately led to his

The fictional novel and political satire, Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is an allegory focused on exploitation that set in a farm. In this 139-page book, Orwell emits the theme of that the possession of supremacy can lead to corruption. “Preeminent among the pigs were two young boars named Snowball and Napoleon, whom Mr. Jones was breeding up for sale. Napoleon was a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation of getting his own way” (35).

Napoleon was a fierce leader like Hitler. Napoleon was leader of the animals in the book called Animal Farm by George Orwell. The main methods Napoleon uses to power over the other animals are he scares them and gives them pride.

When Napoleon wasn’t working, which was very often, or attending meetings with the other pigs and animals, he was usually taking care of the puppies which he had locked in a room in the house which the other animals wouldn’t have look. Besides no one was really looking for them, they basically didn’t even realise that the puppies were even gone, let alone they remembered that there were any puppies. Napoleon had the guineas idea of making them grow up to be ruthless and scary to protect himself and to get a rid of Snowball. Napoleon had enough of Snowball. Him getting the attention and not using the power he had to take control over the farm and the animals.

Animal farm is a clearly an allegory of the Russian Revolution. Napoleon, the pig, is the leader after the rebellion in the Animal Farm. Just as Joseph Stalin did, Napoleon also used military force that included the nine loyal attack dogs he had to terrorize the other animals while consolidating his authority at the same time. In the way he uses craftiness, Napoleon seems to prove that he is more deceitful compared to his counterpart, Snowball. In this case, Snowball must represent Leon Trotsky the other pig that tries to challenge Napoleon’s power in order to gain control of the farm after the rebellion. Just like the real life Trotsky, Snowball is also passionate, intelligent and eloquent in his speech. However, when

The pigs dominance has been evident from the beginning of the Animal Revolution as they begin to undertake the ideals of their new political philosophy “Animalism”. By incorporating the use of fear and violence in order to enforce their new policies, Napoleon, the pig who emerges as a totalitarian dictator, begins to instill fear within the minds of the animals on the farm. For instance, immediately following Snowball’s speech advocating for the Windmill Project, Napoleon “...uttered a high-pitched whimper of a kind no one had ever heard before...and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn” (Orwell 52-53). In reaction to Snowball’s organized movement, Napoleon begins to realize that Snowball’s movement is to his advantage and proceeds to form a private army of dogs. He then finds the opportunity to raise and seclude nine puppies from the rest of the animals in order to form a special force against Snowball, eventually chasing him away.