German poet and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche exclaimed that, “He who fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you”. George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood correspondingly embody this quote, and render the notion that whilst in a quest to fulfill ambitions, conflict acts as an schism between one’s emotional and practical ideologies. Conflict has an ability to transform and negatively impinge on an individual's relationships, moulding a ‘monster’ within itself. The main characters from these related texts, Napoleon and Daniel Plainview, constantly encounter conflict within their lives, both casting …show more content…
At the beginning of the novel, it can be observed that Napoleon and Snowball work together closely and collaboratively discuss ideas for the farm. As Napoleon becomes more influential and powerful, he gradually begins to recognise Snowball as a dangerous rival. Their disagreements culminate with a dispute over whether to develop a windmill on the farm. Snowball argues it is essential to the progress of the farm, whilst Napoleon believes it is a waste of time and resources. Fed up with Snowball’s unwavering competition and hindrance, Napoleon employs the scare tactic of the dogs to chase Snowball off the farm. Napoleon was now in total independent power and free to implement his own plans, “He announced that from now on the Sunday-morning meetings would come to an end. They were unnecessary, he said, and wasted time. In future all questions relating to the working of the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs, presided over by himself. These would meet in private and afterwards communicate their decisions to the others”. Napoleon utilises propaganda to convince the animal crowd that Snowball was a ‘criminal’ and a threat