Snowball doesn’t see him as a threat until it is too late due to clever organisation and planning. However, although he is more like the other animals than Napoleon, Snowball is by no means the same as them. ‘No sentimentality, comrade! … War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.’ Snowball is a ruthless leader who is committed to the revolution, so committed in fact that he indicates he’d be willing to die for Animal Farm.
Napoleon is a caricature of Joseph Stalin. He was more clearly evil than Stalin, though they shared many traits. Here, Orwell was sending a message to the people of Russia. He wanted them to see how tyrannical their leader was and wanted them to know that the fate of the animals could quickly be their own. Hidden in characters and a plot was an effective way to expose what was happening to them.
Conscripted peasants had begun to lose interest, and their welfare was harmed with the conscription of animals, meaning beasts of burden and the like were deposed to military use. Most of the officers had bought their positions for reasons of prestige and glory, meaning that they were inexperienced and not fit to lead armies into war. He, despite the warnings of his advisors, joined the front ranks. Nicholas believed he was doing the right thing, rather than realizing the incompetence of his own aggressive nationalism. This led to Russia being in the control of the German Alexandria, who was hated by the Russian people because of her inability to speak Russian, her reliance on Grigory Rasputin, a mystic who claimed to heal her son, her antisocial, depressed attitude and a general political incompetence to rival Nicholas’s.
During the timber selling incident, Napoleon first denounced Frederick as an evil man who tortured animals, and told the animals that the other contestant, Mr. Pilkington, was a good man. However, after Frederick offered more money for the timber than Mr. Pilkington, Napoleon told Animal Farm that these claims were lies, and that Mr. Pilkington was evil and Fredrick was good. Napoleon sells the timber to Mr. Frederick, who proves his sneaky nature by giving Napoleon counterfeit bills. Napoleon is enraged, Mr. Frederick attacks Animal Farm, and Mr. Pilkington refuses to help because of what Napoleon had said about him. Even so, Animal Farm comes out victorious, but not before the deaths of many humans and animals.
Napoleon, who is the chief character of the novel, is a large, rather fierce looking Berkshire boar, “The only Berkshire on the farm”. The fact that he was the only Berkshire on the farm already hints to the reader the idea of division as he is considered superior among the pigs. He was “Not much of a talker, but with a reputation of getting his own way”. It’s worth noting that Snowball is a better public speaker, and is also better at winning popular favour. Yet it’s Napoleon, the more treacherous and cunning of the two pigs, that manages to get his way.
Answer: The humans were tricked into thinking conditions on Animal Farm were better than they really were because no none knew that the animals were deprived of food. It was kept from the outside world. And the fact that the animals were still working made them think they were doing perfectly fine. (Page 85) 2) What "deal" is Napoleon contemplating? Historically, what did this symbolize?
Not surprisingly, the result is not at all desirable and the animals find themselves in fact worse of then before. Orwell is clearly drawing parallels between the events on the farm and the events in Russia after the 1918 revolution. He intends it to be a warning to readers that they should not be easily seduced by socialism. He also strives to outline the faults in communism, and how turning a blind eye and allowing another to control you never works out in your favour. He uses many themes to convey his main points to this allegory, such as corruption, abuse of power and social order.
Squealer Manipulative Ways Animal Farm, written by George Orwell is an allegory reflecting the horrifying effects of a totalitarian government. One of Orwell’s characters, Squealer (based on Vyacheslav Molotov) is a clever and very persuasive pig. His job: to promote Napoleons personal image and later on, become his intermediary. He cunningly justifies “Comrade Napoleons” actions when the other animals begin to question his authority. He exploits the animals on Animal Farm by using erroneous information and abusing their emotions as techniques to sway them.
Also, this demonstrates how already Napoleon secluded himself from the others, by acting narcissistic. Napoleon’s dishonesty continues to grow when he makes paradoxical laws, where the “work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.” –pg 35. In Animal Farm Snowball is depicted to be a reasonably moral leader in opposition to Napoleon’s bent leadership. In Animal Farm not everything Snowball did was in the best interest of the animals. Snowball never contested that it was unfair to all the other animals besides the
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.