Napoleon Animal Farm

Animal Farm is used as a literary device to symbolize the rise of Soviet Communism in an animal based story. In a more broad perspective, it is also a metaphor for human society and government, no matter the form. The pigs show the nearly inevitable development of tyranny in a the upper, more powerful classes, and how this is detrimental to the integrity of democracy and freedom. On the other hand, the lower class animals are used to display the dangers of having a naive, or uneducated working class that allows itself to be manipulated and lied to by the people that reside above them in the social

The animals want to escape humans, but what happens when one of their own turns on them? The story Animal Farm by George Orwell, Is about the animals on Mr. Jones's Manor Farm. The Oldest pig is Old Major, and he describes a dream he had. His dream was of the animals rebelling against the humans. A few days later, Old major dies in his sleep and Two new pigs take power, Snowball and Napoleon. Then make the rules of Animalism called the seven amendments. Napoleon wants to be in full control, so he uses guard dogs he raised to banish Snowball and then lies and says Snowball is a “bad guy”. Napoleon continues to change things until he is the unquestioned ruler of the farm. The theme corruption can change people. The story shows this through Napoleon's dialogue, actions, and appearance.

Snowball was one, if not the only pig, that wanted a better life for all of the animals and not just for the pigs. Old Major was already dead by this point and Snowball carried the torch of Old Major’s dream as he sought to build the windmill for everyone’s benefit. It was not until his excursion by Napoleon that the Animal Farm started to take on a more tyrannical appearance in government.

In the novel, Napoleon and the other pigs are able to change all sorts of rules since they are the only ones with the highest intelligence in Animal Farm. Since the other animals of the farm are unintelligent, they have come to never realize that these rules change. They all believe in Napoleon and they all trust him. Since they are all ignorant, they never believe for one second that Napoleon is a bad guy. In each chapter after Snowball’s absence, there is always one rule that is being broken or changed, and it shown in the quote,”It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there. Again the animals seemed to remember that a resolution against this had been passed in the early days, and again Squealer was able to convince them that this was not the case” (66). This shows how ignorant and forgetful the animals allowed themselves to be manipulated. Even when they thought there was something wrong Squealer came in and “cleared” everything up with lies. This also relates to how the people of the Russian revolution fight for something, but not all of them know what they are fighting for, Stalin says many lies to the people and they all still trust and believe in

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is, first and foremost, a political satire warning against the pursuit of utopian desires through unjust and oppressive means. Operating under the pretense of an animal fable, Orwell disparages the use of political power to poach personal freedom. He effectively alerts his readers to the dangerous price that can accompany the so-called “pursuit of progress”. And he illuminates how governments acting under the guise of increasing independence often do just the opposite: increase oppression and sacrifice sovereignty. While the cautionary theme Orwell provides proves widely applicable, in reality his novel focuses on one tale of totalitarian abuse: Soviet Russia. The parallels between the society Orwell presents in his Animal Farm and the Soviet Union – from the Russian revolution to Stalin’s supremacy – are seemingly endless. Manor Farm represents Tsarist Russia, Animalism compares to Stalinism, and Animal Farm, with the pig Napoleon at its helm, clearly symbolizes Communist Russia and Joseph Stalin. But Orwell does more than simply align fiction with fact. He fundamentally attacks Soviet Russia at its core. And in so doing he reveals how the Communist Party simply replaced a bad system with a worse one, overthrowing an imperial autocracy for a totalitarian dictatorship. This essay will demonstrate that Orwell’s Animal Farm is

Elie Wiesel in Night and Snowball from Animal Farm are very similar characters because they were victimized by tyrants and used as scapegoats, but they are also unique and individual characters because Elie knew he was being taken advantage of and Snowball did not. Animal Farm is written by George Orwell, and it is about a farm of animals that take over the farm. Napoleon, a large pig, slowly takes away food and supplies from the other animals until he starts walking on two feet and becomes a “human.” Because of him Snowball is expelled from the farm and acts as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong on the farm. Night is an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel, and in it Elie tells the story of he was taken from his home and put into a concentration camp under the control of Adolf Hitler.

People respond to control and power differently for various reasons, however, one of the main reasons is based on their personality; their confidence and intelligence. In, Animal Farm by George Orwell, confidence and intelligence is a big factor for why certain animals obtained power and control and why other ones did not. People with confidence and intelligence are likely to gain most of the control and power. People with little intelligence, but lots of confidence are more likely to have some power or work underneath the leader. People with intelligence, but no confidence seem to have no power at all and shy away from it. Both intelligence and confidence are needed for someone to take total power. Therefore, the amount of confidence and intelligence a person has will decide how they respond to control and power.

“In past years Mr. Jones, although a hard master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days”(Orwell 38). In Animal Farm George Orwell describes life for the animals on a farm in the english countryside during the mid to early 20th century before, during and after a revolution against their master Mr.Jones in order to represent the russian revolution and describe to people throughout the free world how leaders in both capitalist and communist societies oppress the working class as a result Orwell 's tone throughout the novel is concerned. Tsar Nicholas II led Russia into failure in the Russo-Japanese war as well as World War I and allowed the shootings of over one thousand protesters on Bloody Sunday; these actions inspired Orwell to create a representation of tsar Nicholas II in the character Mr.Jones who is known for being drunk and forgetful.

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

Then Old Major dies. The animals continue with the rebellion. Once the animals rebel the pigs, become the leaders of the farm. There are many problems between Napoleon and Snowball. So Napoleon runs Snowball off of the farm. The pigs break all the rules that they originally created. And the animals forget old Major's dream of freedom. At the end of the book pigs end up being worse than when Jones was as the leader.

In the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the wisest boar of the farm, Old Major, mimics Karl Marx, the “Father of Communism,” and Vladimir Lenin, a Russian communist revolutionary. George Orwell introduces direct parallels between the respected figures through their mutual ideas of equality and profoundly appreciated qualities. Furthermore, his utilization of dialect and descriptions represent the key ideas of the novel. Throughout the novel, Orwell continues to show comparisons between Old Major and Karl Marx/ Vladimir Lenin that reveal their representation of one another.

In the fable, Animal Farm, George Orwell portrays the slow decline of a society due to a pig’s dictatorship. After successfully driving out Mr. Jones, who symbolizes Tsar Nicholas II, out of the farm, the animals of Manor Farm establish a set of commandments in which they all had to follow by to ensure equality between each and every animal and renamed the farm to Animal Farm. The farm begins to flourish without the leadership of the humans until

It is evident from the beginning of the novel that the animals’ attempt at a new society based on the principles of Old Major would fail because Orwell refers to their endeavors as a revolution. “The animals listen to first to Napoleon, then to Snowball, and could not make up their minds which was right; indeed, they always found themselves in agreement with the one who is speaking at the moment” (66). Unfortunately, like most revolutions, the ideals that form the revolution are often distorted to serve the purposes of the individuals leading the revolution. In this case, Napoleon and initially Snowball, seek for the betterment of the pigs and not all the animals as a whole. Eventually, due to the disagreement and lack of collaboration between the two, Napoleon drives Snowball from the farm because he sees Snowball as a threat to his autocratic rule. After the battle of the windmill, the surviving animals are in shock and huddle together around Clover, who starts crying and thinking about how different this is from what they dreamed of before the

As the text continues on with the exploitation of the pigs and their deceit, communism eventually transforms into capitalism. Instead of benefiting the entire society, one person determines where the revenue goes, the produce goes, and settles all transactions on the farm. To illustrate their deceit, take this quote discussing the future management of the farm: “It was noticed that whenever he seemed on the point of coming to an agreement with Frederick, Snowball was declared to be in hiding at Foxwood, while, when he inclined towards Pilkington, Snowball was said to be at Pinchfield”(77). By incorporating his hatred for Snowball, Napoleon hides his further cooperation with future private owners. As the text progresses, Manor Farm transfigures into Animal Farm. In other words, the capitalism and communism start to transform into a republic. During the process of improving living conditions, Beasts of England, the proclamation song inciting for revolution, starts to become irrelevant. When the animals are dis encouraged to chant the song, Squealer intervenes by retorting, ‘“Beasts of England was the song of the Rebellion. But the Rebellion is now completed. The execution of the traitors this afternoon was the final act...In Beasts of England we expressed our longing for a better society in days to come. But that society has now been established. Clearly this song has no longer any purpose”’(88). This transformation into a society that does not understand the benefits

As Napoleon is ruling, he eliminated certain rights from animals and switched several commandments they fostered for the new reign. Two leaders were presented in the story one being a tyrannical pig name Napoleon and a biased political other pig named Snowball. In Orwell’s story, two forerunners were against each other to see who would lead the farm from their newest rebellion. "It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him [Napoleon] in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones" (5.15)Napoleon had raised these baby puppies to strong feisty dogs, who actually did chase after Snowball since Napoleon felt his competition