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Comparing Snowball And Napoleon In Snowwell's Animal Farm

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Snowball and Napoleon are drastically different leaders; their tactics can be boiled down to the beliefs each pig has, the leading styles of both, and how each pig is viewed from the public. The difference of beliefs show the different leading styles of the two pigs. Snowball, whose name shows his lightness and innocent towards the farm, leads the farm for the better of the farm; while Napoleon, whose name shows his born natural leadership and being a good leader, but going about it the wrong way, leads with an iron fist who plans to make the animals bow to him. Snowball constantly tries to make the animals educated and want the animals to stay true to what Old Major said in the first chapter of Animal Farm. He tries to keep the peace for the animals, make committees to keep the animals informed, and has ideas where the …show more content…

Consequently, Napoleon wants to build the windmill because the animals can use the electricity to sell the corn to humans. Napoleon wants a total dictatorship where the animals are meant to bow to him and will kill any animal in his path to greatness. The beliefs of the pigs show how they deal with defeat or how they talk about the other animals. Snowball always had respect for any animal and argued with Napoleon, but Snowball would never try to spread lies about Napoleon because he is another farm animals. However, once Snowball is ran out by Napoleon and his dogs, Napoleon spreads lies about Snowball to make Snowball the enemy while Napoleon is the hero. The difference in beliefs shows how each pig interacts and communicates with the other animals. Because of the difference in belief, the conflict arises when Napoleon and

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Napoleon who was in control in Animal farm is similar to Joseph Stalin. One similarity between Napoleon and Stalin is they would eliminate anyone who would disagree with them or rebel against their rules. In the book Animal Farm Napoleon gets rid of Snowball because they didn't agree on what to do for the farm and he was worried all the animals would side with Snowballs ideas not Napoleons. In the book it states, “They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws,” (Orwell 53). This shows that napoleon felt threatened by Snowball and was worried he would take over the farm so he used his dogs to try to kill Snowball so Napoleon could have no choice but to rule the farm.

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On the other hand, there is snowball who represents a great leader because he is clever, loyal, honest and worthy of being a leader. "Pre−eminent among the pigs were two young boars named Snowball and Napoleon… Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive… At the Meetings, Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches"(Orwell,5,15). This quote shows that among the pigs, who were the smartest animals on the farm, the smartest pig was Snowball because he was more creative and quicker in speech, he also won in all the debates against Napoleon. He is determined to make positive changes. Snowball is a creative thinker who came up with the idea of building a windmill and starting a recreation

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As things take a turn, and SnowBall(Leon Trotsky) no longer has the same ideas as Napoleon(Joseph Stalin), SnowBall’s departure from the Animal Farm is used to add fuel to the fire that is the propaganda that allows Napoleon to hold his position of power. Napoleon convinces the rest of the animals that Snowball had always been against Napoleon’s cause, and did not hold the same “four legs good two legs bad” belief as them, and associated himself with the human farmers. This was outlandish to many of the animals on the farm however shows that even though these were not the intentions of SnowBall’s initial actions, Napoleon was able to twist reality to the less educated civilians, and cause them to automatically believe what he was saying. Even

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Squealer is another selfish pig that resembles the Russian media. Squealer and Napoleon persuaded the animals that Snowball destroyed the windmill which contributes to the destruction of the noble societal concerns of Snowball, Old Major and the other animals on the farm because he uses Snowball as a scapegoat which makes the animals hate him. In November, the windmill was half-finished and the animals harvested enough food to survive for this winter. Then one night, the raging winds demolish the windmill into broken pieces of stone. The animals woke up and Napoleon said quietly, “Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill?

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The pigs took away rights and lives of their own citizens as did the Soviet’s, which helps teach what the book was trying to show that when these political figures gain such power, that they should not use it to only their advantage but to everyone’s. This can be represented at the end of the book when Napoleon has a meeting with humans and starts to resemble the humans exactly. This is because Napoleon used his power for his own well-being like the humans and eventually resembled one. “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” pg.124 The image of the pigs appearance is tarnished by the way the pig treated his citizen as did Stalin.

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At first Napoleon kick Mr.Jones out but after He make the dogs his royal guards and he become leader of the farm. He expel Snowball too. Napoleon become worse than Mr.Jones. Snowball - snowball is a pig who offers to make a windmill for the farm. Snowball was a good leader but Napoleon make him deactivate and kick him out from the farm.

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