The Struggle for Power and Authority

George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ is the story of the animals on ‘Manor Farm’ uprising and taking over to create an equal society within the farm. Napoleon, the self appointed leader of the farm uses manipulation and relies on the naivety of the other animals, in order to take full control of the farm. ‘Animal Farm’ is an allegory of the Russian Revolution which George Orwell displays through his novel ‘Animal Farm’. Throughout the novel George Orwell demonstrates the themes hypocrisy, dominance and manipulation.

George Orwell created and developed the complex character of Napoleon to show how easy it was to change everything in his favor to gain control. When the animals don’t like how their owner, Mr.Jones, runs things they overturn him so they could gain control, and get the treatment they thought they deserved. To run the farm however they want. However, some have different ideas of being in control. At the beginning of the story Napoleon agreed with the rulings Old Major, but his taste for power slowly drew him closer to the feeling of dictatorship.

The essays that comprise Traditional Classics on Leadership present varying notions of authority and of challenging authority. This is largely due to the fact that this manuscript is comprised of essays from 31 contributors, ranging from well-known political theorists to some of the more salient voices for individuality that the world has known. Still, there are some points of commonalities in these essays that present a synthesized viewpoint of the concept of challenging authority.

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.

The novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell, was an allegory about the Russian Revolution in which the author used a farm and it’s members to symbolize major characters and their actions. In this composition, I will reveal to you many of Joseph Stalin’s important contributions and how they relate to the actions of Napoleon from Animal Farm. I will break this topic down into the following three parts, their rise to power, how they maintain power, and how they use and abuse their authority.

The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding explores the ideas of power and leadership. Golding uses the characters Jack and Ralph to show that humans have a natural desire for power and leadership. Ralph symbolises leadership and order whereas Jack is used to represent the desire for power.

The novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell, was an allegory about the Russian Revolution in which the author used a farm and it’s members to symbolize major characters and their actions. In this composition, I will reveal to you many of Joseph Stalin’s important contributions and how they relate to the actions of Napoleon from Animal Farm. I will break this topic down into the following three parts, their rise to power, how they maintain power, and how they use and abuse their authority.

Animal Farm is an allegorical tale written by George Orwell in 1917. Animal Farm seems superficial at first, seeming to be an insubstantial tale centring on talking farm animals. Animal Farm in fact displays significant moral dilemmas on and issues, through Orwell’s perspective, on particular people and events throughout the duration of the Russian Revolution. However Animal Farm is not simply about the Russian Revolution it also presents how the flaws of humanity power can corrupt one’s mind. Napoleon, in particular, symbolises this concept as his initial lust for power escalates until he distinguishes himself as superior to the other animals before he explicitly mistreats those who were initially seen as his equals.

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is reflective of Russia during Joseph Stalin’s tyrannical ruling. The story’s antagonist Napoleon leads the Rebellion with Snowball. Once Napoleon overthrows Snowball, he deceives and manipulates the other animals with promise of a life free of restraint and human influence. After gaining their trust, Napoleon capitalizes on the animals’ vulnerabilities and uses his power to better the circumstances of the pigs rather than all animals. Although he initially presents himself as a democratic head, his leadership tactics are that of a dictator. Through examining the syntax and diction characteristic of Orwell’s writing, one can gain a better understanding of the novel’s sociopolitical theme.

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.

Dictatorship and government control is apparent in Animal Farm and that our modern day society. People who have no rights are probably living in a controlled society. Citizens are left with no option to survive. Dictatorship causes people to die everyday. For example, today in the North Korea, there are several years of sustained torture and suffering for people. People’s souls are persecuted and ripped open just

In William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ and George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ we are exposed to the complex power structures that are presented throughout the two novels. During Golding’s Lord of the Flies, he portrays a dystopian society where power is used for personal gain and not for the benefit of the wider community. In Orwell’s representation of the Russian Revolution, we gain an insight into how power is imposed, and can quite easily see connections to the power structures in Lord of the Flies. In comparing the two texts, the close link between Jack’s autocratic behaviour and rule and Animal Farm’s Napoleon the Pig become apparent. Both texts also show instances of egalitarian control, whether it is coming from Ralph in Lord of the Flies

Jones. Napoleon portrays Stalin, who displays many of his same traits and behaviors. To get position of leadership, Stalin exiled Trotsky by killing his supporters and spreading propaganda. Similar to this, Napoleon trained puppies at a young age to hunt and chase anyone he commanded them to, which later on, Snowball —whom portrays Leon Trotsky— gets banished from the farm by the dogs. Also, another allusion made by the George Orwell novel to Stalin is Napoleon's behavioral traits. Napoleon wasn’t as clever, brave, or intelligent as Snowball, which made him a threat. Same to Stalin, he wasn’t as smart or cunning to ever compare to Trotsky, which soon lead Stalin to execute

Napoleon, once just an ordinary boar, built his way up to the primary authority figure of Manor Farm and earned himself the title of the master of manipulation. He used tactics like propaganda and preached for an ideal situation where all animals were equal as leverage to rise to power. Likewise, Stalin, a former dictator of the Soviet Union who also believed in socialism, climbed to power by executing anyone in his way and by presenting his ideas in a way that appealed to all. In Animal Farm, George Orwell emphasizes Napoleon's personality traits, decisions, and desire for power as an allegorical connection between the ruthless and manipulative pig and Joseph Stalin, the Communist dictator.

From the very beginning of the novella, Napoleon emerges as an utterly corrupt opportunist. Though always present at the early meetings of the new state, Napoleon never makes a single contribution to the revolution—not to the formulation of its ideology, not to the bloody struggle that it necessitates, not to the new society’s initial attempts to establish itself. He never shows interest in the strength of Animal Farm itself, only in the strength of his power over it. Thus, the only project he undertakes with enthusiasm is the training of a litter of puppies. He doesn’t educate them for their own good or for the good of all, however, but rather for his own good: they become his own private army