Napoleon Animal Farm

Throughout the novel “Animal Farm” it is understandable that Napoleon and Snowball are the protagonists. They both want to lead the farm and take control of the animals. Although Snowball is trying hard to lead the animals to a utopian life, Napoleon is overcome by greed and banishes Snowball from the farm using his scare tactics (nine guard dogs). They both share many similarities and differences which can be seen throughout the novel. They also used some of the cunning techniques and strategies to overthrow each other, gaining the loyalty from the farm animals. Quite astonishingly, Snowball may have been a morally legitimate political alternative to the corrupt leadership of Napoleon.

It is clear that the protagonists have many similarities

They use many techniques and strategies to over smart each other, also, gain the loyalty of the animals. They use propaganda and persuasive speeches. Although Napoleon rarely gives out speeches, his mouthpiece and propaganda machine, Squealer does all the work. “… surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?...” (page 26). Squealer says this because he knows that no matter how much the animals dislike their decision and choices, they certainly do not want Jones back. Snowball’s goals are to spread the revolution and win the hearts of the the animals and their loyalty using the messenger birds. He uses the messenger birds to spread the news of the rebellion and let the other farm animals know that you don’t have to live under the words of people. Napoleon also has had the foresight to train up a pack of attack dogs and make them loyal to him and they frighten any one who doesn’t agree with his decisions. These are some of the techniques that they have used for the struggle of

Snowball is the only pig that believes animalism, and the idea that all animals should work together. Snowball's work on the committees that were formed as well as the fact that Snowball's real enjoyment comes from talking to the other animals about revolutionary fervor and post revolutionary life representing a morally legitimate and politically authentic leadership alternative to Napoleon, who is more inclined even in the initial stages of post- revolutionary life to embrace political notions that benefit he and him alone. Snowball's desire to construct the windmill for the benefit of the other animals is also representative of a legitimate political alternative to Napoleon's corruption. Probably the best example that shows how Snowball is a morally legitimate political alternative to Napoleon is how the latter effectively rids the farm of the former. After Snowball gives a particularly impassioned speech to the other animals linking his proposal of the windmill to the idea of Animalism, Napoleon does not engage and he doesn’t respond in kind. He does not even retort anything Snowball says. He simply sets the dogs on him, representing the full extent of his own corruption and making Snowball out to be a morally legitimate political alternative to the corrupt leadership of