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Similarities Between Napoleon And Stalin

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Page 1 of 4 Khalil Mitchell Mrs. Tanner PM 6 July 2023 Stalin’s Allegorical Counterpart Animals have formed a communist government on a farm. In the book Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the farm animals revolt against Mr. Jones, their owner. Pigs become the leaders because they are much smarter than the rest of the animals. Napoleon Becomes the sole ruler of Animal Farm. He ends up becoming just as cruel a leader as Mr. Jones. Napoleon was the counterpart to Joseph Stalin because Napoleon used dogs to maintain power on the farm, while Stalin used the secret police; they both used propaganda to influence the masses; and Stalin initiated the Five-Year plan while Napoleon initiated the construction of the windmill. Napoleon and Stalin both use …show more content…

The pigs make the rest of the farm work to produce barley, with it, they make beer (Orwell 8). Napoleon adds more work and makes more demanding quotas. Napoleon uses Squealer to announce their progress on the quotas of food production. Even though the animals are starving, Squealer’s quotas say they are doing amazing in food production, which spurs them on to continue working. During this time, he made almost all food be taken for the quota. He made the hens’ egg quota go higher, so they barely had enough eggs to make more hens (Orwell 7). Stalin had done something very similar. He introduced the Five-Year Plan to industrialize the USSR. He made quotas so demanding that almost all food grown by farmers was taken, leaving farmers starving (University of Waterloo). This made the people of the USSR struggle to survive. Despite all this, it can be argued that Napoleon isn’t a counterpart of Joseph Stalin. T.S. Elliot believed that Animal Farm was too controversial. At the time the book was published, the USSR was allies with Great Britain. Since the Russian leaders were displayed as pigs, it was thought that they would take offense (T S Elliot). Nonetheless, George Orwell has put too …show more content…

Napoleon and Stalin both were power hungry leaders. They both used propaganda to influence the suggestable masses. The leaders had both used military force to suppress the people. In the end, both were cruel leaders who used fear and power to establish totalitarian control over the people. Works Cited “Animal Farm: At a Glance | CliffsNotes.” Www.cliffsnotes.com, www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/animal-farm/animal-farm-at-a-glance. Brandenberger, David. “Stalin as Symbol: A Case Study of the Cult of Personality and Its Construction.” Stalin: A New History, 1 Jan. 2005, pp. 249–270, scholarship.richmond.edu/history-faculty-publications/33/. Orwell, George. Animal Farm. William Collins, 2021. T S Elliot. “British Library.” Www.bl.uk, 13 July 1994, www.bl.uk/collection-items/letter-from- t-s-eliot-faber-to-george-orwell-rejecting-animal-farm-13-july- 1944#:~:text=Many%20publishers%20thought%20the%20work. University Of Waterloo. “The First Five Year Plan, 1928-1932.” Special Collections & Archives, 7 Oct. 2015, uwaterloo.ca/library/special-collections-archives/first-five-year- plan#:~:text=The%20first%20five%20year%20plan%20was%20created%20in%20order

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