Animal Farm Juxtaposition

The juxtaposition of Napoleon and Snowball is used to show the greed as well as power-hungry nature of humanity. In Animal Farm, George Orwell shows the reader two very different characters that at first complement each other, but as the story progresses we see that they start to clash. Snowball and Napoleon were the leaders of the rebellion against the corrupted management of the farm, but after Napoleon kicks Snowball out, the farm is taken over by Napoleon's greed. In the end, the line between heroes and villains is blurred, causing an unbreakable cycle of corruption.
Snowball and Napoleon are two main characters with polarizing personalities that lead the farm in the rebellion. Animal Farm starts with all the animals on the farm gathering

Here Old Major tells the animals about a rebellion that will occur sometime in the future where the animals will overpower the humans to take over the farm. Soon after the meeting Old Major died, leading the animals to start a rebellion. Napoleon and Snowball, two of the pigs, became prominent figures in the rebellion. “Snowball and Napoleon, whom Mr. Jones was breeding up for sale. Napoleon was a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way. Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character.” Napoleon and Snowball worked together to run the farm. Their difference in views was what kept the farm functioning in addition to happy. The reader can see their differences through their debates, “It was always the pigs who put forward the resolutions. The other animals understood how to vote, but could never think of any resolutions of their own. Snowball and Napoleon were by far the most active in the debates. But it was noticed that

As the farm started to get used to the new routine, Napoleon started to want more power. Soon after the rebellion one of the dogs gave birth to nine puppies, but Napoleon swooped in in order to take the puppies. He kept them in the barn where he trained them to do whatever he said, without telling the other animals what had happened to them. Napoleon's greed was also shown through stealing food from the other animals, “‘Comrade Snowball will lead the way. I shall follow in a few minutes. Forward, comrades! The hay is waiting.’ So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared.” The other animals trusted Napoleon, so they assumed that he had done the best for the farm. He started to get more and more bold leading up to the vote over whether or not the animals should build a windmill. At the vote Napoleon brings out the dogs he had been training to chase Snowball away. “Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, plows, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater. By the time he had finished speaking, there was no doubt as to which way the vote would go. But just at this moment Napoleon stood up and, casting a peculiar sidelong look at Snowball, uttered a high-pitched whimper of a kind no one had ever heard