Snowball And Napoleon In Animal Farm

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.

Napoleon eventually ran out of food and is down to his last bottle of whiskey. He decided to venture out and find the animals. He walked around on what was Pilkington’s farm. It was destroyed and over grown with weeds. Napoleon and his dogs searched Pilkington’s farm all day and were not able find a trace of the animals that ran away. Napoleon was becoming frustrated at the dogs for not being able to catch the animals scent. Napoleon was so frustrated at the dogs for not catching the animals scent that he started yelling, and throwing things at them. The dogs were tired of him always yelling at them so

Old Major is the oldest and most well respected of the pigs on the farm. At the beginning of the book, Old Major tells all animals of the farm about a strange dream he had that all the animals were equal and kept what they produced. He explains that animals do not need to live short lives where they are starved and only kept to produce. He then claims that man is the only creature who consumes without producing.

To begin with, The real power holder was o’l Major, the animal that everybody praised, obeyed, and were grateful for! After, his pass is when the pigs came in power! They were teaching and organizing all the others. “The work of teaching and organising the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognized as being the cleverest of the animals” -page 15. The two pigs Snowball and Napoleon were naturally Mr.Jones breeding animals who were being put up for

From the very beginning, Napoleon and the pigs take charge and make the other animals do the work for them, while the pigs just supervise. In chapter three, when they begin working on plowing the fields, the pigs do not do anything other than tell the others what to do, “The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the other” (20). The pigs, from the very start of animal farm, took charge and only directed and told others what to do. They solidified their positions as leader’s right at the beginning of the farm. Also, at the end of the book, the pigs, to show their leadership, carry whips around to make sure the work gets done, “After that it did not seem strange when next day the pigs who were supervising the work of the farm all carried whips in their trotters” (92). Since the creation of the farm the pigs started to slowly present the fact that they would take charge, and in the beginning when they were nice about it no one argued with them. By the end though, the animals finally realized what had happened, but by then it was too late for them to do anything about it. Admittedly, Napoleon and the rest of the pigs are greedy because they take all the extra food and make the others work like slaves, but that does not make them ineffective in the ways they make the animals work. Napoleon showed his effectiveness as a

When Major, the leader of the animals dies, Snowball and Napoleon take charge of the farm renaming it Animal Farm. While Snowball has the more level approach to ruling the farm,

With Snowball out of the way, Napoleon’s path to absolute power without accountability is clear. Napoleon enlists Squealer to deceive and trick the animals into anything Napoleon wants them to believe by manipulating the facts and confusing the animals. Some examples of this in the story are Napoleon taking credit for the windmill, Napoleon claiming that Snowball sabotaged the windmill, and ultimately claiming that Snowball was in collaboration with Mr. Jones all along. Napoleon’s skillful use of Squealer proves effective in making Snowball the scapegoat for everything that’s wrong with the farm, and now Napoleon takes his evil intentions to another level by murdering any animal that was thought to be in allegiance with Snowball. One of the most wicked deeds was the sale of Boxer to the knacker for money to buy more whiskey. This evil act was only made worse by the elaborate lie Squealer created to cover Napoleon’s tracks. By the end of the book, Napoleon is seen having a dinner party with other humans, while the other animals are in about the same state they were at the beginning of the book. The pigs have risen to take the place of the humans and run the farm, and all the other animals are no better off for it.

When Snowball is chased away from the farm by the dogs Squealer has to speak to the animals. Squealer tells the animals that they have made the right decision on not following snowball. Squealer also said every animal fought bravely at the Battle of Cowshed but he said Snowball exaggerated. After Squealer finished talking to the animals, the animals discovered the windmill was destroyed. When the animals found out the windmill was destroyed Squealer blamed Snowball right away they also said Snowball took the milk-pails, corn, and broke the eggs. As the farm started falling apart the animals thought Snowball was an invisible influence and a secret agent for Jones because of what the animals thought he was doing. Squealer reminds the animals of Napoleon's huge role in the Battle Of Cowshed. Squealer told everything to the animals so graphically they remembered it in seconds. The animals start to benefit towards propaganda because it shows that the animals are benefiting from Napoleon making the water taste fantastic. Napoleon remains in power by using propaganda to use other animals to benefit himself and by blaming things on Snowball so he looks like a more fit superior

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.

At first, Animal Farm prospers. The pig leaders, Snowball and Napoleon assume the administration of the farm and as Snowball tries to teach the animals to read, Napoleon takes a group of young puppies to educate them in the principles of Animalism. Mr. Jones reappears to take back the farm but the animals defeat him again. As time passes however, Snowball and Napoleon increasingly quarrel over the future of the farm and they begin to struggle with each other for power and influence among the other animals. These disagreements lead up to a vote in order to build Snowball's proposal for a windmill, which Napoleon was opposed to.

Ruling an empire through fear was a common practice in history. The use of fear to control the population is still common today. Before the rebellion, Jones used violence and terror to force the animals into submission. The animals started the rebellion to free themselves from the violence. Jones exploits the animals from their hard work and slaughters them whenever he pleases.

He also tells the animals that Snowball had stolen Napoleon’s plans for the windmill (61). When the other animals question why Napoleon acts so against it in the beginning, Squealer tells them that Napoleon was using tactics. The animals don’t know what “tactics” means, but because Squealer speaks so persuasively, they accept his explanation without question. Napoleon uses the animals’ mindlessness to his own advantage to maintain power. When rations are reduced due to the cold winter, Squealer speaks of these reductions as a

Whenever he is out in public, he is always being represented with his nine loyal dogs. “Napoleon, with the dogs following him, now mounted onto the raised portion of the floor. Suddenly, the dogs sitting around Napoleon let out a deep growl, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again” (58-59). Whoever wants to to start a fight with Napoleon must go through his dogs first. He uses them to intimidate and scare off others that wants to overthrow or rebel against Napoleon’s way of ruling.

After a pig named Old Major convinces the animals to rebel against Man, their primary problem, the animals take over Manor Farm. Although the pigs are instantly stereotyped as the intelligent, dominant leaders of the farm, they quickly change Animal Farm into a tyrannical, corrupted farm, which includes reduced rations, murders, and corruption. As the pigs distinguish themselves from the other animals and break the commandments of Animalism, oppression and starvation seem to stare the working-class animals

Then Napoleon stated, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” (Orwell, 90). He ruled that decisions would be made by the pigs in the committees, and also Napoleon abolished the “Beasts of England” so the animals won’t rebel against him. Snowball argues in favor of the windmill, but on the other hand Napoleon argues against it, saying that building the windmill will take time and effort. After the debate Napoleon calls nine relentless dogs who chase Snowball out of the farm. Three weeks after Snowballs disappearance, Napoleon suggests that the windmill will still be built. Later he sends Squealer to the animals to explain that snowball had stolen the plan of the windmill from Napoleon. Also it will make Napoleon look like a better leader than Snowball. “Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly” (Orwell, 51). He started to threaten other animals, and he ordered the hens’ rations to be stopped, and forced that any animal giving so much grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. He violated many of the seven commandments for instance one of the commandments was “No animal shall kill any other animal” (Orwell, 15). Nevertheless, Napoleon remains a growing problem in Animal Farm by becoming a dictator that takes an advantage of the animals so he could be