Similarities Between Napoleon And Snowball

As seen throughout the plot, Napoleon slowly becomes more isolated and distant from the other animals. He had received special treatment and more privileges than others. This was all due to the abusive of power, manipulation, and deceiving lies. Napoleon was given too much power and the animals were not intellectually capable of taking matters into their own hands. The animals were too ignorant because they’re only animals; this can be easily overlooked. Although they all speak english, they still have their animal tendencies and tend to behave the way an animal does. Napoleon breaks the animal tendencies, furthermore results in him starting to resemble more like Mr. Jones. He is given absolute power in which power corrupts.

The antagonist of the book ‘Animal Farm’, Napoleon was highly emphasized for his cruel tactics that he upheld against his fellow animals. He tortured and tormented them giving himself the title of a cruel leader. This sense of tyranny is why he resembles Mr.Jones the previous owner of Manor Farm. Similar to Mr.Jones, Napoleon has created a caste system in which he is the “farmer” and the rest of the animals are his “slaves”, he has shown that he only uses the animals for his own monetary gain, and that he uses fear and propaganda to control the rest of the animals. In this essay I will compare and contrast the two individuals.

The Propaganda and manipulating the facts to control the animals was unfair. Napoleon is in control of every animal on the animal farm. He declared the pigs should run the farm since they were the most intelligent. The other animals never even had a chance to even have a say on who should be in control of the animal farm. Napoleon and the other pigs came up with the seven commandments (on page 43.) but through the novel the pigs slowly took away the rules and in the end was left with one revised law, “all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” (page 133) He twisted the rules to the benefits of the pigs and the other animals on the farm blind sided on what was really happening to them. Boxer worked extremely hard on

The story of Animal Farm is not just one of simple animals in a farm. Rather the tale uses animals to symbolize the individual, classes, and event that took part in the Russian Revolution. George Orwell, in Animal Farm, used Napoleon as an allegory for Joseph Stalin. He illustrates the villainy as Napoleon starves, kills, and brainwashes his animals. Orwell compares Napoleon and Stalin acts during and after the Russian Revolution.

The animals trust and follow Napoleon blindly. “It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune” (Orwell 93). By the animals giving Napoleon credit for their achievements, it has given him even more power and increased the dependence on him. This is happening because, Napoleon is now necessary for the farm to produce goods. The animals don’t take credit for themselves.

Napoleon’s treatment towards the animals took a cruel, and selfish experience, mainly involving the minor class animals. Within the first days under Napoleon, A new rule is set, “Through the spring and summer they worked a sixty-hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that

How does one message meant to inspire equality among different people go horrifyingly wrong? The message meant to inspire rebellion against a cause we oppose? The message meant to instill confidence and assurance that we have the ability to band together as one and protest against a common purpose? The message I spoke to my friends and my loved ones? I gave them a cause to fight for. A reputation to ensure after my passing. I thought highly of Snowball and Napoleon. I see now that I have made the wrong decision. What if I hadn’t given them a message to rebel against man? What if I had only told them of my dream, and not of my wish? Would things have turned out differently? Would Boxer still be here, not pushing himself to the breaking point?

Before the animals rebelled they were not being treated equally compared to Mr. Jones and the rest of the humans. When the rebellion was followed through with, the animals had hoped that everything would change and all the animals would be equal and nobody would really be “in control” of everyone. To have somebody taking charge of all the animals actions would be a valuable idea so all tasks would run smoothly and cooperatively. In order for this to happen their leader Napoleon would need just enough power but the revolution immediately became a failure when Napoleon’s power was to out of hand. One of the major signs that Napoleon had far too much authority over the other animals was that he was only a pig but he had the ascendancy to get rid

To start off, Napoleon is the leader and he plans on taking over Mr. Jones part, Napoleon isn’t the leader many would expect. He is selfish, manipulative, and a liar he changes everything to fit his way of life. He change the commandments and lied to the other animals to make sure he isn’t breaking the rules. He has his way of keeping the power by making his opponent become exiled from the farm. He took his idea from his opposing candidate and used it for the farm. His messenger Squealer persuades the other animals to believe the Napoleon is always right. They

The animals begin to make deals with the humans because there was talk of how bad Manor Farm was now that animals ran it and they got people to spread a good word throughout the country. The animals trade eggs for more grain and rations with the humans on other farms. One night, the windmill on which they had worked over a year was destroyed. Napoleon blamed it all on Snowball, who was no longer present on the farm. When the animals first started living on their own on the farm, they stated that all human contact was forbidden. Walking on two legs was also forbidden. Near the end of the novel, the pigs start walking on their hind legs and living in the house. Eventually, Napoleon is ruling just as cruelly as Mr. Jones had earlier in the novel. The animals became the same dictators as the humans that they revolted against. The main theme in this novel is that when someone is put into power, they will become corrupt. “It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there...It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in. It was also more suited to the dignity of the Leader (for of late he had taken to speaking of Napoleon under the title of "Leader") to live in a house

As the book stated, the animals under the leadership of Napoleon was no far better of when they were under Jones (Orwell, 1945).Both figures rule in a totalitarian state, with Jones and Napoleon on the top and the rest is below them . Under the leadership of these two, the animals were given the bare minimum to survive. Under Jones, Old Major stated that they are only given the amount of food to keep them from dying (Orwell, 1945).While for Napoleon, it is pretty much the same, with Napoleon increasing the food shortages all the time for the animals (Orwell, 1945). Both of them also sent animals to get killed when

In the satiric novel entitled Animal Farm by George Orwell, the character Napoleon represents hitler, who somewhat leads the rebellion against against farmer Jones to gain freedom. However, the utopia that the animals fought for was not realized and they are manipulated by the pigs, inturn, they become the thing they hate the most. Napoleon is dishonoring, narcissistic, and deceiving. He is a leader, but he didn’t know how to lead a society equally without having all the animals equal.

The animals are working much more than what they did, even under the rule of Jones. They have little food and work in the harsh elements. When the animals took over the farm, each animal had to contribute to keep it going, now Napoleon and his pigs stay housed in the barn and are rarely seen, especially Napoleon. He now has a personal speaker that goes and talks to the animals when they begin to question Napoleon. As Squealer said, “Our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, has stated categorically, comrade, that Snowball was Jones’ agent from the very beginning.” (Orwell 82) Not only is Napoleon breaking their Seven Commandments, he changes them to keep himself from being questioned by the animals when he breaks them. Every time Squealer is reassuring the animals that Napoleon is a great leader, it is contradicting, especially when he says, “ Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal.” Napoleon hosts a meeting and animals come forth

In the beginning of the book, while Old Major was still alive, the animals were a knit tight community. They had meetings, they sang the “Beasts of England” together, and family has an intrinsic value on Animal Farm as well. Napoleon changes the idea of community; he stops the animals from having meetings and makes them stop singing the “Beasts of England”. He violates the core value of family by taking the dogs nine puppies and turns them into ravenous killing dogs. Napoleons corruption of the community is so bad that the animals begin to lie about meeting with Snowball just so they can be killed; they felt life on Animal Farm was that bad that they basically commit

All his wrong doings were made right by Squealer’s propaganda. This made the animals followed Napoleon blindly. Maybe with some education, with some rebellion, and with some more rights, this might all be different? The animals were treated badly, forced to work, has no rights in the end. Who is good and who is bad? Mr. Jones or