Compare And Contrast Snowball And Napoleon

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Snowball and napoleon were to different kinds of animals fighting for power. napoleon was more of a dictator and snowball was more of a democracy. All the animals loved snowball cuz he was fair and against all humans. napoleon was unfair and was with the humans. snowball used his mind and his voice for power. Napoleon used force and fear for power.

When the pups were born Napoleon saw them as a chance to overthrow snowball and to gain power. Napoleon did just that. he had changed everything on the farm. No more meetings all the way to being forced to work on sundays or the animal rations would be cut. Napoleon is almost like hitler. If the animal rebelled against Napoleon they were killed instantly.

Snowball was a fair governor of the farm

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