Societies can easily be described as a group of people living in either an organized or unorganized community. The society that we live in today in 2018 can be seen as this unorganized mess, which is similar to the society in Animal Farm. Today's society can be compared to the atmosphere of Animal Farm due to the fact that our Nation’s leaders have made numerous false promises and fabricated the truth, recent candidates in elections and debates running for government office have acted like children and argued the whole time, and in our society we follow our politicians aimlessly. Have you ever been promised something but the person who promised you never delivered upon it? That’s how I feel living in the U.S. in 2018. Leaders of our nation …show more content…
people running for government office have acted like complete imbeciles. While watching debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton I felt as if I was watching a very unorganized tennis match. Back and forth and back and forth, all they did was argue. Instead of talking about what they were going to do for our society they just argued with each other about various scandals. As a country we should be coming together as a nation, but instead we argue and belittle people and major issues. While reading Animal Farm I felt as if I was back sitting in front of the television watching the debates. While Snowball and Napoleon were running for the leader position they held debates. Snowball and Napoleon just bickered back and forth and disagreed on practically everything. As it is said in the text, “The two disagreed at every point where disagreement was possible” (Orwell 47). Everything that they could disagree on they did. I can infer that the animals probably got sick of Napoleon and Snowball arguing. Napoleon even peed on Snowball’s plans. To demonstrate, “...then he suddenly lifted his leg, urinated all over the plans, and walked away without uttering a word” (Orwell 50). Napoleon acted like a child. He peed on plans that were not his just to intimidate Snowball. I can infer that Snowball and Napoleon were more focused on arguing with each other rather than purpose their ideas to the other …show more content…
Sometimes people fall into the trap of blind faith. If someone was to say to you that they would give you everything you want as long as you vote for them, you would probably vote for them, right? As Americans we are listening to our politicians say everything we want to hear. But do they have a plan? Both candidates in the Presidential election (Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump) both used the same techniques to get on their side. Obviously one was better at getting voters to believe everything they said, unless the election was actually rigged. What America has failed to do as a society is ask “what comes next”? After all of the elections are said and done and we elect a new President, how are these plans and ideas going to play out? I can say over and over again that I am going to do something, but unless I get up and do it, it will not get done. Donald Trump does not have a plan for our country and is essentially flying by the seat of his pants. This is also similar to Animal Farm in the way that Napoleon and Snowball debated about their plans for the farm. Snowball’s plans were clearly thought out and organize. On the other hand, Napoleon had no plans. After Napoleon had run off Snowball he stole all of his plans and said that they were his. In the middle of the book it states, “ Starvation stared them in the face” (Orwell 74). Napoleon had no plan on how they were going to get
“Every night it was said he came creeping in under cover of darkness and performed all kinds of mischief. He stole corn, he upset the milk pails, He broke eggs whenever something went wrong it becomes usual to attribute it to snowball” (Document D). The whole farm used poisoning the well and blamed snowball for all the problems on the farm. ”And do you not remember that it was just at that moment when panic was spreading and all seemed lost that comrade Napoleon sprang forward with a cry of Death to Humanity! And sank his
The animals did not remember this, they thought that Snowball fought brave against the humans. Napoleon uses this to make him seem like he is going to be a better leader than Snowball would have been if he did not leave the farm. Napoleon also has the animals call him “Our leader comrade Napoleon”, to make him seem like a good
Snowball was run out of the farm and made seem a horrible and untrustworthy leader to make Napoleon seem better and more “on top”. At times, Napoleon even gave himself more superior titles like “our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, Father of all Animals, Terror of Mankind, Protector of the Sheep-fold, Ducklings’ Friend, and the like…. It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune.”. Napoleon made every good thing that happened his fault but any mistake, or bad thing that happened, was at the fault of Snowball, although he was run off of the
Juliette Blalock Singh 4/5 Animal Farm In the satiric novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, the character Napoleon represents a dictator in society, who turns a self-governed and unbiased farm into his own. Napoleon initially unifies with the rest of the animal’s, but soon decides to take matters into his own hands and disposes of Snowball and his proposals towards the farm. He takes advantage of the vulnerable animals so he can become in command. Napoleon is clever, brutal, and dictatorial to the animals.
Over the course of the novel, three characters possess the power on the farm and each struggles to keep it in their control and to utilize it wisely. In his novel, Animal Farm, George Orwell uses Snowball, Mr. Jones, and Napoleon to demonstrate that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Snowball mainly
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.
Napoleon was so threatened by Snowball that he used his 9 loyal dogs to chase Snowball out of the Farm, and then brainwash everyone into believing that Snowball was the enemy. This is similar to when Joseph Stalin ordered one of his men to go kill Leon Trotsky because he hated everything that Trotsky was about. Stalin banished him from the country and “erased” him from Russian history. Snowball and Leon Trotsky both wanted the best for their country, but had political rivals who wanted nothing more than to see them
Napoleon lied to the other animals in many different ways. One way he lied was by telling the other animals that he was going to send one of the horses on the farm, Boxer, to doctor to be treated for his sick lung. Napoleon made the other animals think that he was sending Boxer off to get better, but he was actually sending Boxer to a horse slaughterer to be killed. When Boxer was being loaded into the “ doctors” van one of the animals began to read what was on the side of the van. It read “ ‘ Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and glue boiler, Willingdon.’ ”
Furthermore, Napoleon gives the other animals the impression he was the sole leader of the rebellion on Animal farm and makes Snowball -a leader who wanted what was best for the animals- seem like an enemy who was in cahoots with Farmer Jones since long before the animals took over the farm. Napoleon and Squealer (another “fat cat” pig.) always put the blame on Snowball whenever something went wrong in the farm to avoid having the blame fall on them. Napoleon is an exemplary example of just how selfish and hypocritical people can be in furthering their own aims because he continued to subtly but purposely change the seven rules put in place as the pillars of animalism. For example, Napoleon and the other pigs move into Farmer Jones’s house and sleep in his bed after commanding “No animal shall sleep in a bed”, so he changes the commandment to read “no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets”.
His final action to extricate Snowball from position is by attacking him with “nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars... bounding...straight for Snowball” (67), which Napoleon stole from their mother while they were puppies in the initial part of the
Napoleon in the novel is not a wise character. However, he occupies the leader’s position since he is intimidating and authoritative. In contrast, Snowball who is portrayed as the intelligent character, somehow gets expelled from the farm, because he was not as manipulative as Napoleon. To begin with, Orwell uses propaganda as one way of illustrating the theme of power. Napoleon and Squealer both utilize propaganda to brainwash and motivate the animals into following their orders, such as when Snowball teaches the sheep into chanting the slogan, “Four legs good, two legs bad!”(Orwell, page 34).
Napoleon had all the privileges and rights to amend the rules to fit his needs but there were severe consequences for those who questioned his authority or broke the rules he had established. The four pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Sunday Meetings were singled out to be colluding with Snowball and pressured into confessing their crimes. The dogs “promptly tore their throats out” in front of all the animals. The hens that took part in the rebellion confessed that they were incited by Snowball appearing in their dreams and they were duly slaughtered along with a string of other animals. Along with power, corruption seeps into the farm.
Napoleon also uses manipulation to gain and maintain a firm control by changing the Commandments for the farm in ways that work to his benefit. Squealer, Napoleon’s propaganda department, Keeps the farm animals believing in Napoleon by describing what they hear and see to make it seem harmless. Using effective tactics of fear, convincing propaganda, and manipulation, Napoleon gains and maintains control of Animal Farm. “Animal Farm” has corruption and equality in a way the animals try to succeed and achieve a goal to make the farm better. Power corrupts in “Animal Farm” because the pigs have a goal which is working together and helping one another.
“He was Jones’s secret agent all the time” (79). This explanation means Napoleon betray Snowball for his own benefit, to become the only leader. This is significant to use of accusation because Napoleon uses Snowball to get more support and to gain more power. In the book, it is shown as animals who opposes Napoleon are the real brave
They diverge in almost all points that can be a divergence and only agree when the is a threat to Animal Farm, such as Jones attack. These pigs have different concepts of how animals should be treated, if all animals should participate in the system and be educated, how the animals should be governed and mainly how to interpret Major’s advises, the principles of Animalism and the Seven Commandments. All these differences culminate in the episode when Snowball is removed from Animal Farm, leading to a farm governed by Napoleon where fear