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Influence Of Napoleon In Animal Farm

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The written text ‘Animal Farm’ written by George Orwell is the story of animals that rebel against the human powers that control them. The story is inspired by the Russian revolution where the main character, Napoleon, is representative of Joseph Stalin. Napoleon is a character that helps us to understand many important messages throughout the text, the first being that passion creates change. The second message Napoleon helps us to understand is that power corrupts. The third being the effect a leaders manipulation can have on those they lead.

At the beginning of the text, Napoleon believes in the revolution and everything it stands for. He is passionate about the cause and helps to create change in the farm. “All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings.” Napoleon felt the same about the rebellion as all the other animals did, he had lived the same life as the others up until after the rebellion. He felt he had been mistreated by humans and wished to see the farm become a place where all animals would be treated equally. Food would be abundant and the workload would be low, this is perhaps an ideal that most people would wish for, had they worked hard their whole life with little reward. Napoleon inspired the other animals by

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