Napoleon's Power In Joseph Stalin Animal Farm

“Outline the ways in which Napoleon obtained and maintained power on Animal Farm. What message is Orwell conveying to the reader through these processes?';

"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 Animal Farm, George Orwell uses Napoleon and the pigs to demonstrate how fear and intimidation are used to gain control over a society. Napoleon makes an example out of those who refuse to obey him in order to create fear amongst the animals and preventing more animals from rebellion. After witnessing the slaughter of multiple rebelling animals, the animals “were shaken and miserable. They didn’t know which was more shocking- the treachery of the animals who had leagued themselves with Snowball, or the cruel retribution they had just witnessed.” (84). Napoleon kills the rebels in front of the animals to secure his authority and assert dominance . Knowing that Napoleon would execute them if they disagreed with him, the animals were more

People are intrigued by a book through its content. However, when a reader can relate to the book, it reminds them of their own life story. This is exactly what Orwell did when writing Animal Farm. He created the book to open people’s eyes and see what was really going on in front of them. Animal Farm intrigues so many people because though it is a fiction book, it is based on true events that happened in Russia. Animal Farm, a book based on Stalin’s Russia, can be interpreted in several ways: the similar characteristics between Stalin and Napoleon, the animal parallels, and the parallel between Stalin’s Russia (USSR) and the Animal Farm.

George Orwell, the pseudonym of english author Eric Arthur Blair, was an influential author of novels, novellas, and essays that criticized the rise and practices of authoritarian governments. One of his most revered works, Animal Farm, is hailed as a brilliant piece that satirizes the statues of Stalinism by allegorizing its tumultuous rise and the harsh, often lethal loyalty Stalinism demands of its followers. One of the hallmarks of Stalinist rule is its frequent use of propaganda. In his novella, Animal Farm, Orwell presents the use of propaganda in a Stalinist society through the deification of a leader, the use of scapegoating against an exiled revolutionary and against the vices of man; and exposes the practice of engendering fear into the population of Animal Farm.

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.

In chapter 7 Napoleon began punishing and executing the animals who he believed to be traitors, by forcing them to confess to “crimes” that they committed. Through this, it is obvious that although the pigs goal is to keep humans out of animal farm, and make sure that the animals are safe, it is causing a sense of fear and terror in the animals. This also shows how the animals have no freedom of

Animal Farm, a fiction novella by George Orwell, displays a political satire reflecting the problems and ironies in the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. Animal Farm follows the animals of Manor Farm, who revolt and take over the farm from their cruel owner. Eventually, the pigs (particularly Napoleon) become the leaders of the farm plummeting the originally republic rulership into a dictatorship. The corruption of power between the pigs leads to the ultimate suffering of the rest of the farm animals. At the end of the book, the farm animals are looking into a window where the pigs and humans are having a meeting and realize, “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” (Orwell 141). This scene conveys to the readers that not only have the pigs abused their power, but the animals only realized once it was too late. The pigs exploit the animals several times throughout the story, most apparently through the alterations of the original rules set in place by the pigs themselves. The repetition of lying to the remaining animals shows the pigs’ fraudulence in their

Second, Napoleon and Stalin had many cruel ways of maintaining power. Napoleon created this mean team of dogs while Stalin had the KGB. “When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their

“Animal Farm” by George Orwell is an allegorical novel published on England in 1945. According to the author, this book reflects historical events leading up and during the Stalin era before World War II. It is the story of a revolution which goes wrong, based on the Russian revolution and Stalin’s use of power, the overall message is that man’s desire for power makes a classless society impossible. In the book, each animal represents a public figure or a type of person in real life. With this we can begin to develop the questions below in order to have a more complete idea of the meaning of the novel.

Napoleon threatens the animals with death if they are to disobey his rulings. “He ordered the hen’s rations to be stopped and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death” (76). By introducing the concept of death and punishment, he frightens the animals into listening to his decree. In addition, Napoleon also interrogates the animals on the farm. “Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?” (67). This rhetorical question is repeatedly asked as one of Napoleon’s tactics to make the animals remember the previous conditions that took place on Manor Farm. He often uses this intimidating question to make them believe that they could always return to how things are. *Moreover, Napoleon declares stringent orders among the animals. “Napoleon had demanded whether any animal had anything to confess” (84). He uses forceful language to language to demoralize the animals until they confess their wrongdoings. Napoleon intimidates the animals by threatening them with death, repeatedly asking frightening questions, and is very demanding, all in order to manipulate the animals on the

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.

Control of a working class leads to a loss of empathy from the leaders, as Squealer and Napoleon become harsh and selfish leaders. For example, the ruthless murder and slaughter of multiple animals for working with Snowball. “The three hens who had been….They, too, were slaughtered...They were all slain on the spot. And so the tale of confession and executions went on, until there were a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood.”(84). During this, Napoleon instills fear in the rest of the animals to bring his own dominance among the other animals. Orwell uses imagery to vividly describe Napoleon’s cruel retribution against these other animals. The retribution represents Napoleon’s dictatorial rule over the animals. The loss of compassion is also expressed through the cruel slaughter of so many animals to manipulate them through fear, as the sixth Commandment of Animalism was to not hurt any animals(25). Napoleon’s tyrannical personality further develops as he ruthlessly sells Boxer, his most loyal and hardest working animal, for profit. “ ‘Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughter and Glue Boiler’...and the word went around that from somewhere or other the pigs had acquired the money to buy themselves another case of whiskey.”(122-126). In order to buy a case of whiskey, Napoleon sends Boxer to his death, and has

Though Animal Farm can be considered nothing more than a charming animal fable depicting a doomed rebellion, its origin is actually of a more serious and political nature. It is not only the tale of Napoleon and Animal Farm, but a satire and commentary on that of the Russian Revolution, Stalin and Communism. For a person to gain a true understanding of Orwell's meaning in Animal Farm, it is best that he or she has an understanding of the political parties and history surrounding Communism, Stalin, and the upheaval and fear that followed Stalin's rise to power.