There is some immediate conflict between two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball. For a while they work together to help liberate the farm, but soon napoleon starts behaving rather oddly doing things like: drinking the milk which the animals had gathered and stealing away bluebell and Jessie’s puppies for himself. He manages to turn all of the other animals on snowball and takes control of the farm himself. He ‘alters’ the seven commandments and by the end you cannot tell the difference between the humans and the animals. The entire book is an allegory for the Russian revolution; he uses small metaphors to symbolize some of the things which happened during the Russian revolution.
Novel and Movie – Different but Alike Animal Farm is a story which is written George Orwell and published in 17 August 1945. This story tells about a life of a farm which is controlled by animals because they take over it from human. They take over the farm because they think that human does not treat them well. They think that human only makes them suffered. The rebellion itself is led by two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball who are inspired by Old Major, the old pig.
This is what happened in Russia in the early 1900’s. This is what happened in Animal Farm by George Orwell. John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton said it best, “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In Animal Farm, the animals, representing Russia’s people, were upset with the management of the farm. They were eating only enough to stay alive, so they finally had a breakthrough and Rebelled against the humans on the farm, representing the Royal Family in Russia. When the pigs came into power they had seven commandments by which all of the animals need to live.
This also alludes to the historical destruction created between Russia and the Soviet Union under Communist Party rule. Another example of power and exploitation can be seen when Napoleon takes 9 puppies away and raises them to become his potential bodyguards in order to protect his life regardless of the safety of the dog. This can be seen through visual imagery “it was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones.” Like how Napoleon abuses his power, many people such as dictators use their power for their own interests instead reinforcing ideas of peace. The desire within a community to have a higher social class and increased status can result in conflicts and destruction within the community. Orwell’s use of “animal farm” stands for a human society whether a capitalist or communist.
Joseph Stalin VS Napoleon Background of Stalin Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the Revolution. After Lenin’s death in 1924, Stalin managed to combine more and more power in his hands, gradually putting down all opposition groups in the party. Stalin's idea of socialism in one country became the primary line of the Soviet politics. Background of Napoleon Napoleon was a Berkshire pig, who ruled the Animal Farm.
This book is about a bunch of animals that chased their farmer out of the farm and decided to run the farm themselves. It all begins with a boar named Old Major that had a dream of animals roaming free in the plains, free of human control. After Old Major dies, three pigs named Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer work together to help his dream come true. Everything goes well at first but corruption is slowly seen in greater degrees throughout the book. This book is symbolic to the Soviet Union, which was a communist state.
The use of the dogs begins the evil use of force, which helps Napoleon maintain power. Later, the dogs do even more immoral things when they are instructed to kill the animals labeled “disloyal.” Stalin, too, had his own special force of “helpers.”Really there are followers loyal to any politician or government leader, but Stalin in particular needed a special police force to eliminate his opponents. This is how Trotsky was killed. Like Stalin using his secret police force to
In his self-proclaimed fairy story, Animal Farm, George Orwell has clearly shown that absolute power corrupts absolutely. In order to get this theme across, he has used fable to replace human beings with animals and show the process of power corrupting, allegory to draw parallel between Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution and satire to expose the corruption of the leaders. In order to demonstrate that absolute power corrupts absolutely without being defensive to anyone, Orwell has created Animal Farm as a fable, where all animals think, talk and fight like human beings. He has effectively used Napoleon, the leader of Animal Farm as an example, to show the process of power corrupting. Although Napoleon seems to be a good leader at first, he becomes very corrupted when he has gained absolute power, that is, when he has exiled Snowball from Animal Farm.
In Animal Farm, the story begins with Old Major, the elder and diplomatic pig gathering the animals of the farm to listen to his speech about his ideals and vision for a perfect society where animals are free from man’s tyrant. The animal’s struggle at this time is to endure man’s abusive reign and his oppression. Old Major seems to have claimed a false brotherhood with the other animals in order to garner their support for his vision (deception is a one of the motifs in both works) but it is effective because after he taught them the national anthem, “Beasts of England” and died, the animals are united under the leadership of Napoleon and Snowball, who are also pigs. Immediately the irony is that people with superior intelligence are left to run and control the affairs of lower, unsophisticated (naïve), working classes and asserts their power over their subjects. In Childhood’s End, the Overlords appear in their spaceships and hover above earth when the Soviet Union and the United States have been in a race to create the first spaceship with a nuclear drive.
He presents power to be abused through the character of Mr Jones, who represents Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last Tsar of Russia whom the Russian public rebelled against. Mr Jones was the neglectful, lazy, tyrannical owner of Manor Farm, before the animals overthrew him by a democratic coalition of animals as the Russian public did Tsar Nicholas II. He was an alcoholic, which is expressed as he was ‘too drunk’ to take proper care of the hen-houses, and the verbs ‘lurched’ and ‘kicking’ that are used to describe him highlight his carelessness and negligence towards his responsibility to the animals. Similarly, Tsar Nicholas II left his citizens living in poverty to starve whilst he lived a privileged life. The animals describe Mr Jones and the humans as ‘parasitical’, which suggests he uses the animals to his convenience and not to any benefit to the animals, and that though he had power, Mr Jones relied on the animals to keep him in business.