Comparing Power-Hungry Leaders In Animal Farm And The Russian Revolution

"All oppression creates a state of war" -Simone de Beauvar, French Philosopher. Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegory for the Russian Revolution. Each animal was a key character in the Revolution such as Napoleon being Joseph Stalin, Mr. Jones being Tsar Nicholas and Boxer, being an ignorant. Mr.Jones was run off the farm because the animals were tired of the drunken man mistreating them. What the animals didn't know was that they went from one dictator to a whole group of them. The pigs. Ignorance contributes to political and social oppression and is proved by the inability to comprehend what the pigs are doing to the other animals. The animals cannot read or write as well, are perplexed easily, couldn't see the blemishes in the pig's leadership, or how the pigs changed things and didn't see or completely ignored how the pigs had acted.

In the Novel animal farm by George Orwell he tells a story about a farm that is taken over by animals, an allegory of the Russian revolution. In this essay I will show how Napoleon represents Stalin and what he did during the Russian revolution.

The novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell, was an allegory about the Russian Revolution in which the author used a farm and it’s members to symbolize major characters and their actions. In this composition, I will reveal to you many of Joseph Stalin’s important contributions and how they relate to the actions of Napoleon from Animal Farm. I will break this topic down into the following three parts, their rise to power, how they maintain power, and how they use and abuse their authority.

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 story Animal Farm, isn't just animals trying to prove to humans they're “better” than them. Rather, the villain, Napoleon, getting to show that he is capable of keeping the farm in order, the same way Joseph, Stalin acted during the Russian Revolution. George Orwell, portrays Napoleon as Stalin through the way Napoleon made Squealer make him seem as the “good guy” and caused the puppies to kill innocent pigs.

An obvious example would be Stalin, or Hitler, both who claimed to be helping their countries to break off from oppression, but they themselves became the oppressors. Orwell wants to show that if a leader is always allowed to do whatever he wants, or if he is not kept in check, the leader will start to get corrupted.. This is a vicious cycle as the more power the leaders amass, the more corrupted they become. The more corrupted they become, the more power they amass.

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men”(Lord Acton). The novella Animal Farm is a story based off of the Russian Revolution. In the story the main character, Napoleon, represents Joseph Stalin during the time of the Russian revolution. Both of them take advantage of the people/animals who are starting the revolution to take power for themselves. When past power corrupts, Napoleon takes over just like Stalin did using propaganda and a secret police.

“Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power” (William Gaddis). Power can become something that is overruled, and eventually corrupt. The book Animal Farm is an allegory based off of the Russian Revolution. Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution have many connections that are made throughout the book. Napoleon, who was the main character was connected to Joseph Stalin, they were both cruel and misleading people.

Everyone responds to power in a different way. In the novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell, animals overthrow humans, as they feel man is unfairly ruling over them. All the characters in Animal Farm symbolize members of any society. Just like Joseph Stalin, Napoleon uses his power to turn his equitable society into one of tyranny and death. However, Snowball, like Leon Trotsky, takes the power and starts to form a productive and operational community.

The story of Animal Farm is just not the one of animals living on an ordinary farm. Rather, the tale of Napoleon coming to rule while causing violence and leading the animals. George Orwell, symbolizes Napoleon as Stalin. He was admired by his followers, but Stalin committed cruel actions against his people similar, to Napoleon the pig from Animal Farm. As Animal Farm encounters the leadership of Napoleon he murders animals who disagree with him or innocent animals who he feels that they aren’t useful similar to Stalin who would murder his own people because he felt that they weren’t necessary.

In 1945, author George Orwell was living the communist Soviet Union, ruled by Joseph Stalin. Orwell wrote Animal Farm to portray the events of the Russian Revolution. The book Animal Farm is an allegory for the Russian revolution; all the characters in the story represent a person or a group of people in the Russian Revolution. Orwell wrote this story as an allegory to make the story easier to comprehend, while still getting his point across. One of the characters in the story is Napoleon, a pig. Napoleon represents the Russian Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Just by reading Animal Farm and seeing the actions of Napoleon, it was obvious Stalin ruled by fear, but the rule of Joseph Stalin was worse than anyone could imagine.

In George Orwell dystopian novel, “Animal Farm” he demonstrates how power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. He develops his message through the allegorical character Napoleon who represents Joseph Stalin in his tyranny over the citizens he claims to represent. In fact, Napoleon mirrors Joseph Stalin’s abusive and manipulative language strategies against the lesser educated farm animals who represented the working class. Furthermore, Napoleon like Stalin, publicly executes opponents in order to maintain power through fear.

George Orwell's book, Animal Farm is a basic farm story about a group of unhappy animals that seek to change the way they live. After seeking out help from all the animals, they come up with a plan to eliminate their farmer and run the farm themselves. After the plan was fulfilled the animals were overjoyed and soon enough another power source came to rule: Napoleon the pig. A power hungry Napoleon, who is used to getting his way, steps up to the plate and stays in constant control by using tactics such as fear, lying, propaganda, brainwashing and the use of the dogs that he marked as his own.

When given a certain amount of power, even the most humble of people can fall subject to corruption. Likewise, one who is already an unjust figure is more than capable of becoming a tyrant. Such is the case in Animal Farm, a novel by George Orwell. Animal Farm focuses on the rebellion of the animals on Manor Farm, and their attempt at a socialism-esque society. The leaders of the farm, two pigs named Napoleon and Squealer, gradually change from fair authority figures to unethical dictators. Orwell’s critically acclaimed novel Animal Farm establishes a theme of how leaders can be corrupted by power through the characters of two pig dictators on the farm, and their former master Mr. Jones.

It can be seen that even through good will, one can fall victim to the greed for power. This is exemplified in Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, an allegorical novel based on events unfolded in the Russian revolution. Tired of their servitude to man, the animals on Manor Farm revolt and establish their own society, only to be betrayed into worse enslavement by their leaders. Through this, it is prominent that the expulsion of their human oppressor, Mr Jones, transpires and the rise of Napoleon’ dictatorship is without a doubt more tyrannical than that of Mr Jones. Despite the totalitarian outlook that both leaders have, Napoleon creates pretence of achieving a dystopian society for the animals. He abuses his power and most important of all, the animals trust, with his reign of terror.