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George Orwell 's Animal Farm

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George Orwell or Eric Blair, the author of “Animal Farm”, was a man who was best known for his journalism, writing, and political insights. He was able to bind all the corruption caused by the Russian Revolution, Stalinism, and Communism in an allegorical book, “Animal Farm.” In his book, he symbolized all the leaders and significant people involved in the Russian Revolution from Karl Marx to Tsar Nicholas II to Hitler, in the setting of a rebellion of animals towards humans. In Orwell’s allegory, there were many leaders who rose and fell, had their advantages and disadvantages, influenced positively and negatively, etc. However, two of the main characters that really stood out were Napoleon and Old Major (pigs). Napoleon and Old Major …show more content…

At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws.” (Orwell 52). Napoleon and Snowball are rivals against each other. In this scene, the animals were gathered together to listen to each, Napoleon and Snowball’s speeches and vote on whether the windmill is built or not. Napoleon shows in this quote that he is very selfish, controlling, and a cheater. Clearly, his mentality is based on dominating everyone without care for anyone but himself. Instead of being fair and just by letting the animals vote on whether they wanted to carry on with his idea or Snowball’s, he decided to expel Snowball (his rival) off the farm to achieve authority and power over the rest of the animals easily; “The three hens who had been the ringleaders in the attempted rebellion over the eggs now came forward and stated that Snowball had appeared to them in a dream and incited them to disobey Napoleon 's orders. They, too, were slaughtered. Then a goose came forward and confessed to having secreted six ears of corn during the last year 's harvest and eaten them in the night. Then a sheep confessed to having

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