Leadership In George Orwell's Animal Farm

In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, he depicts the result of a people without a good education in an animalistic way. The story is about how Old Major, who in real life is Karl Marx, talks about why the animals should revolt because of their bad living conditions and the result of it. The man who is causing the farm animals to feel this way is Farmer Jones. He represents the czar in Russia. After the animals run Jones out of the farm the Pigs become in charge. Especially, Napoleon and Snowball, who represent Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky in real life. Soon, Snowball is exiled from the farm just like Trotsky and Napoleon takes charge just like Stalin. After this happens, everything goes downhill in the story. The reason why is because

Napoleon uses propaganda and lies he spreads with Squealer, that all his actions are put forward to the benefit of ‘all’ the animals. Squealer speaks,” Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back!” He creates fear within the animals of Mr.Jones coming back again, and tells them, “Napoleon is always right.” He sees Snowball as a threat to his power, he spreads his words “Comrades, do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!” He tries to make false information and lies to the common animals. The external conflict between Napoleon and Snowball over power are shown, due to Napoleon’s greeds. Although the common animals of the farm found Snowball more likeable, the nine loyal dogs of Napoleon frightened the animals and strengthened the power of Napoleon allowing him to become the leader after Rebellion. Napoleon is unsatisfied of any ideas rooted from Snowball, brings out his specially trained dogs to go after Snowball. Snowball who does not have a physical force of his own like Napoleon’s, is chased out of the farm allowing Napoleon to become the one and only leader of “Animal Farm”. I feel empathetic to Napoleon some of the time, but to this extent I wouldn’t agree or connect with Napoleon. He uses and exploits other animals for his benefit, and untruly spreads propaganda to keep in power.

Why did 1917 Russia have flaws with its government and politics so much so that it started a revolution? Within the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, there are many examples of leadership and corruption such as in the Russian revolution. There are many examples within the novel for this theme like the way the pigs deceive the lower animals with their lies is one example of this. How Napoleon persuades the animals in his decisions by abusing the force of the attack dogs. Banning practices from the animals like the song Beasts of England and at the end Napoleon changes a commandment to say that all animals are equal but some are more equal than others.

Snowball, an ardent believer of Animalism, is “a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker is speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character. (Orwell, George)” Snowball is a young pig that is inventive, innovative and beyond intelligent. Snowball is parallel to Leon Trotsky. The leader of the pigs puts his heart and soul into advancing Animal Farm’s infrastructure and government.

George Orwell’s Animal Farm reflects the events of the Russian Revolution and the Stalin era in the Soviet Union through the story of a seemingly simplistic farm controlled by animals. One night, Old Major, a prize-winning boar, gives a speech on the idea that all of humanity is evil and rebellion is necessary to achieve freedom. After Old Major dies shortly after his speech, three pigs, Squealer, Snowball, and Napoleon, decide to take control and form the ideas of Old Major into a philosophy—Animalism—with seven principles inscribed in a barn to help maintain harmony amongst the animals. After driving out the human workers, the animals celebrate and begin their own farm. However, problems arise as Napoleon drives Snowball out and begins controlling

“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution. One makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.” George Orwell (Brainyquote.com). Animal Farm is a satire written by George Orwell which uses animals to portray political issues most likely that of Russia under the rule of Joseph Stalin. Mr. Jones is the owner of Manor Farm which is meant to represent Russia and Mr. Jones it’s leaders that were neglectful. He forgets to feed the animals as well as well as beating them and treating them badly. A wise boar “Old Major” gives a speech that pushes the animals to rebel after Mr. Jones goes on a drinking binge and forgets to feed the animals. After Old Major dies, and the animals rebel, three pigs step up to take over. Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball convince the animals that a strict regime is the only way to prevent to prevent their former life of misery and slavery. The animals fear allowed the pigs the power they were seeking and the more powerful they became the more corruption surfaced. They used manipulation, fear tactics, and propaganda to make the other animals see a false sense of reality. In order to keep the other animals from rebelling Napoleon, a pig and the leader, began to execute any animal that he thought threatened his control. The hens who revolted when required to surrender their eggs were killed along with any pigs that associated with Snowball ( the pig that challenges Napoleon for control). The farm has is now being used for Napoleon’s own agenda which is to make money for him and the other pigs. In turn, this also satisfies his need for power. In the final pages of the book the pigs are walking on two legs and meeting with neighboring farmers to let them tour the farm. In this final scene the it is

These animals are meant to display the perfect utopia, however fail in doing so, and the credibility of this can go to Napoleon and Snowball. These are the two pigs who go against each other in order to become the ruler of Animal Farm. Napoleon overpowers Snowball and soon, Animal Farm is under his control. Throughout the course of “Animal Farm,” Orwell uses irony, to mock the communist ruling of the animals in Animal Farm as they overthrow the humans because of their vices, and ironically end up adopting the vices of the human ruling as their own.

Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is an allegory about the 1902 Russian Revolution that led to the overthrowing of a corrupt leader, Czar Nicholas II. In the book Animal Farm, Mr. Jones isn’t treating his animals fairly. In 1902, Czar Nicholas II wasn’t treating his people equally either. The novel and the real event can be tied together in many ways, one including having corrupt leaders affecting society. Corrupt leaders have an effect on society because they let the power get to their heads by not being equal, thinking they are above everyone else, and by treating their people poorly.

Throughout the book of Animal Farm the theme of leadership and corruption is continuous. The animal’s who have the biggest part in both of these major themes are the pigs. Napoleon, for example, takes over as the leader in the beginning of the book and later his leadership methods turn corruptive.

Napoleon and snowball are two of the biggest leaders in the book “Animal farm”.They share their differences and characteristics in many ways as both seem to fight an endless war on trying to be the best. Napoleon was a pretty big mean looking Berkshire pig, and the only Berkshire on the entire farm. He seemed to almost always get his way and would become very upset if it didn’t go the he wanted it to. Snowball seems to be the more suttle and more intelligent pig out of the group. He is more content on trying to benefit the whole farm while napoleon is really more focused on getting rid of snowball so he can be leader. For example while snowball carefully planned out how he was going to build the windmill,

In Animal Farm, George Orwell illustrates how leadership can be used for absolute evil. In the beginning of Animal Farm, Leaders use their position to abuse the citizens. On page 18-19 of Animal Farm, the narrator tells us that Mr. Jones “...had fallen on evil days.” The narrator also talks about how he neglected everything on the farm.

Not far after Snowball is ran off of the farm, Napoleon realizes how gullible the farm animals are. Influencing them to do as he wants is a huge part of Napoleon's success on the farm. With this power comes the changing of rules and the blaming of Snowball for all of Napoleon’s mistakes. In the beginning, the changes are subtle and many of the animals never notice, but towards the end the true intentions of the pigs starts to reveal itself, “Their single tenet asserting that some animals are more equal than others is the end of a meaningless absurdity” (Letemendia, 129). In the end of the novel, the other farm animals finally see how absurd the pigs have become. [How do you know the other farm animals finally see the absurdity of the pigs? Do all the farm animals notice this?] Their hunger for power made them the most greedy of

In the beginning of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, two farm hogs named Napoleon and Snowball sought to liberate their fellow animals from oppressive Farmer Jones and create a sovereign nation of, by, and for animals. Much like the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution, Animal Farm soon became a worse place than when Farmer Jones ran the farm. In Animal Farm, Animal Farm went from a communist state, ruled by its inhabitants, to dictatorship, as a metaphor for the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin’s increasingly totalitarian rule.

Animal Farm is an allegory to communist Russia throughout the early to mid 1900s. Led by Old Major, a wise pig that represents Karl Marx, the founder of the socialism, the animals on Manor Farm try to establish a self-sufficient farm run by animals with no outside human contact. This “self-sufficient farm” called Animal Farm was focused on creating a system where everyone is equal and happy, and no animal could be above any other animal. However, what happened in Russia as well as other communist countries, was that the interim government that existed to facilitate the change to socialism became venal and didn't care or pay attention to the social equality of all the people. The interim government, represented by pigs in Animal Farm did not give up their power, leading to the oppressive governmental system called communism. Additionally, in Animal Farm, the communist “pigs”, Snowball and Napoleon, did not pay attention to the growing social gap as they grew more powerful on the farm and ended up going against their original philosophies to keep all animals

Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell. It is an allegory in which animals play the roles of Russian revolutionists, and overthrow the human owners of the farm. Once the farm has been taken over by the animals, they are all equal at first, but class and status soon separates the different animal species. This story describes how a society’s ideologies can be manipulated by those in political power, to cause corruption by those in leadership.