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Who Is Joseph Stalin In Animal Farm

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Kim Jong-Un took his father’s place as North Korean dictator after Jong-Il’s fatal heart attack. Joseph Stalin rose to power in 1924 when Lenin died. By his way of outsmarting his rivals, he became the dictator of the Soviet Union. Napoleon came to power after driving the former leader, Snowball, off Animal Farm. In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, farm animals get rid of their farmer, Jones, and become their own government. However, the animals end up living in a communist dictatorship. As many book reviews have pointed out, this story has parallels with the rise of the communist Soviet Union. While the literal story in Animal Farm is that farm animals overthrew Jones to rule themselves, the underlying story is that of a communist …show more content…

Beginning with the obvious, Napoleon the pig represents Joseph Stalin, the former dictator of the Soviet. During the Battle of Cowshed, Napoleon chases Snowball off the farm grounds. This moment symbolizes when agents of Stalin exile Trotsky, who was an ally of Lenin.. As observed, this is the beginning of the takeover. Eradicating the main enemy from the whole country, or even farm, makes ruling much more simplistic, which means that changing laws to benefit the elite is effortless. In the beginning, there were seven basic commandments set by the former leaders with input from the community. However, these same commandments were often adjusted overnight. After one rule was broken and lower classes became suspicious, extra words were added to the end of the rules, benefitting the group of pigs. Because only certain animals could read, no one truly knew the commandments were changed. However, this would not have played over well …show more content…

To start, there is plenty of name calling. In order to make the animals band together for one cause, it was almost imperative that Squealer and Napoleon put the blame onto Snowball. In order to get the message across that Snowball was bad, the pigs repeatedly call Snowball names, such as “coward” and “traitor.” Not only does Squealer make it obvious that Snowball is a universal enemy, the animals also have honorifics for each other to show who is an ally. They all call one another “comrade” as though everyone is equal. Another means of propaganda is rhetoric. One case of this is during a meeting. When the windmill fell, the animals banded together to talk. At one point in time, Napoleon uses a rhetorical question. “Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill?” Such a question was rhetorical and need not answered. Another use of rhetoric observed is Squealer’s repeated mention of Jones: “You wouldn’t want Jones to return, would you?” When using their persuasive rhetoric, the pigs make the farm appear more like a communist state. Animal Farm has two entirely different stories to be discovered. One story is simply the ink on the paper. What’s been written is certainly one such story of a farm gone wrong, run by cunning pigs that fool the other poor animals. However, the other story to be found is that of a communist state. While most associate this novel with the Soviet Union,

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