Tyranny In Animal Farm

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In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell character napoleon is parallel to joseph stalin a dictator in Russia which uses his power to his personal advantage and shows that speaking out against the government tyranny is dangerous. Both stalin and napoleon has achieved and maintained power to control the masses by their cruelty and tyranny ways.

Napoleon and stalin both show that speaking out against the government tyranny is dangerous. For example on the farm napoleon tries to convince the animals that snowball has been in league with mr jones since the beginning and even accused 4 other pigs that they were infact in with snowball. He then orders his dogs to tear “their throats out, and in a terrible voice napoleon demanded whether any

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