Napoleon’s dictatorship is further evidenced when he sets the dogs against Snowball to increase his political power. Eventually, Napoleon becomes a corrupted dictator and exploits the other animals through violence and tyranny. Evidence of a communism begins with Old Major’s vision that all animals could share in the wealth of the farm without a distinction of “classes”. After Old Major’s
The rivalry comes to a head over Snowball's idea to build a windmill. At the final debate about the windmill, Napoleon summonsdogs he has secretly reared to be his own vicious servants and has them chase Snowball from Animal Farm. Napoleon tells the other animals that Snowball was a "bad influence," eliminates the animals' right to vote, and takes "the burden" of leadership on himself. He sends around a pig named Squealer, who persuades the animals that Napoleon has their best interests at heart. Three weeks later Napoleon decides they should build the windmill after all.
They gathered together a band of other pigs who had been forced off their land. Their new brigade of porkinistas attacked the wolf complex with machine guns and rocket launchers and slaughtered the cruel wolf oppressors, sending a clear message to the rest of the hemisphere not to meddle in their affairs. Then the pigs set up a model democracy with free education, affordable health care, and cheap housing for
to make sure Jones does NOT come back. 5. Pgs.37-42 Page: 40 para: 2 "Obviously they were going to attempt the recapture of the farm" Jones as well as other angry men are attempting to recapture the farm because they are afraid that their own animals will soon become like the ones on animal farm. But the men were driven away. Snowball had been shot and one man was dead.
One argument that stands out the most in the novel and eventually decides who will win the power struggle is the debate over the windmill. “But of all the controversies none was so bitter as the one that took place over the windmill”. Here we see the power struggle at its worst and this happens very soon into the novel in chapter five. Furthermore the windmill debate lead to the exile of snowball by napoleon. “They dashed straight for snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws” This shows that even before the windmill had come into play napoleon had reared these puppies to be aggressive dogs and to get rid of snowball.
Just the Soviet, the pigs are able to establish themselves as a ruling class in the now new society. Symbolic Meaning: Some symbols that were in Animal farm were; Animal farm, the barn, and the windmill.Animal farm was a symbol because it is known as the beginning and the end of the novel and also symbolizes Russia and the Soviet Union which was under the Communist Party rule. Animal farm also stands for human societies in general. It has an internal structure of the nation, with a government (the pigs), a police force or army (the dogs), a working class (the other animals), with state holidays and rituals. The barn is a symbol because this was the place the pigs painted the seven commandments and then added their revisions, which represents the collective memory of a modern nation.
The description of Mr Jones’s activities in the first paragraph foreshadows the activities that the pigs indulge in later in the book. The hobbies of the pigs turn out to be a replica of the hobbies of Mr Jones. The pigs start drinking once they take control of the farm, they too start sleep in beds instead of their sheds, and they too start to use utensils to eat just like humans. At the end of the book, it can be seen that there is absolutely no difference between the pigs and the humans. It is only the ownership of the farm that has changed hands, the situation remains the same for the other animals, if not worse.
English IV – P August 25, 2010 Character Analysis: Animal Farm In George Orwell’s novella Animal Farm, the author’s central characters shape the plot and represent human nature in society in the simplistic version in a farm on the countryside of England. One of the leaders in the farm, Snowball, depicts an idealistic, enthusiastic ruler who tries to create an equal, peaceful society controlled by animals. After the members of the English farm society successfully overthrow the treacherous human farmer, two pigs stand out as the leaders of the group. Snowball and Napoleon look over the well being of the animals and the sustainability of the ranch, but the pigs soon disagree with each other on most topics concerning the farm. The author describes Snowball as “a more vivacious pig” that is “quicker in speech and more inventive” than Napoleon, meaning that Snowball has great speaking skills that help him win the attention and loyalty to his fellow animals and exhibits innovative ideas that may help the farm both economically and socially (Orwell 12).
Orwell positions the reader to see the effects of a dictatorship especially how it can control a whole society. By establishing a power base, the pigs are able to manipulate the other animals in their rise to power. In the early stages of the revolution, Napoleon trains the puppies of Jessie and Bluebell to be at his command by removing them from life on the farm and ‘brainwashing’ them. When Snowball unveiled his plans for the windmill, Napoleon, “... uttered a high-pitched whimper... and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn” (Orwell 1945, p. 35). The enforcement of terror and force through the use of the dogs dramatically frightens the other animals.
One could be “more colorful” than the other. Just like some animals on the farm were “more equal”. In Animal Farm, after Major dies everything about the farm prospers. But Napoleon and Snowball battle for power, and when Napoleon wins that battle, everything goes down the drain from there. The pigs get to make all the decisions and no other animal can say or do anything about it without getting slaughtered.