The Animal Farm Joseph Stalin Essay

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The author George Orwell, created the character, Napoleon in the novel The Animal Farm. Napoleon proves to be corrupt, vicious and contriving. He is created as a perfect model of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and is characterized on the basic principles of Stalinism. The rule of Napoleon represents the corruption of socialist ideologies. Firstly, one must know about Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin was a Soviet leader, he administered the Soviet Union for over a quarter century. He was one of the Bolshevik revolutionaries who was involved the Russian Revolution. But he was a man of corrupt beliefs and gave no regard to ethics in his immoral ways and rule with his apparent ‘Socialism’ which according to many is a disambiguated and misinterpreted

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