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The second main character in Animal Farm, who is also the antagonist, is Snowball. He is a round and static character, who is described indirectly through his speech and actions. To begin with, Snowball is a metaphor for Leon Trotsky. He is exiled by Napoleon and never seen again. To begin with, although Snowball isn’t a bad character in the novel, he is still considered as an antagonist since he challenges the main character, Napoleon. Snowball runs against Napoleon for power on Animal Farm.…

“The Story of the Three Little Pigs” is a fairytale developed in the England of 1890. Moreover, the story narrates the life of three little pigs who lived with an old sow who sent them into the real and hard world to seek their own fortunes. Subsequently, to accomplish their goals, they had to meet with a building materials vendor. On one hand, the first little pig built his house with straw and the second with sticks. Because of the weakness of those construction materials, both little pigs…

George Orwell displays an extremely negative view towards communism, totalitarian governments, and the means by which oppressors rise to power in the story Animal Farm. It’s very clear by the writing techniques and statements from the writing that Orwell feels very strongly about the issues and he dislikes how the government was during the Russian Revolution. During the Revolution, communism was being used as the form of government, and Orwell wanted equality for all, so he strongly disagreed…

Benjamin greatly contributes to the problem of totalitarianism on the farm by being passive and not voicing his opinion on Animalism. Although an intelligent animal, Benjamin chooses not to use his intelligence to challenge the new, corrupt government. Furthermore, he doesn't question their authority and by not doing so, causes the new way of life to remain in place. When asked by the animals what he thinks of the building of the windmill, he refuses to have an opinion on it. The animals are…

Ever been the leader of something and started taking advantage of it? This is one of the questions people would ask after reading George Orwell’s Animal farm. The book displays class conflicts and showing how some classes are more equal than other ones.This book was an allegory to the Soviet Union and the allies during World War II. People can see the well known leaders and allies in some of the characters. Orwell shows how badly the working class was treated comparing it to times in the Soviet.…

Joseph Stalin, who was directly inspired by Lenin and Marx. In the same way Stalin was the communist dictator of the Soviet Union, Napoleon was the dictator of Animal Farm. Snowball, who was power hungry and enriched in his corrupt ideology, represents Leon Trotsky, a Soviet politician who was exiled by Joseph Stalin (History.com Staff, 2009). Although these men envisioned a perfect society, their greed quickly led to their decline (Rani,…

The definition of power is the capacity to control or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. “Power is ethically neutral - it can be used for constructive or destructive purposes, self-interest or the good of others, or both at the same time. Power… triggers intense emotions - fear, envy, jealousy, greed.” We learn that in the real world, power is a very strong but also fragile commodity. In the poem ‘Men of England’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the goal was to send out a message…

Most people would be far more inexperienced when facing common conflicts without reading fables and folktales. That leads a reader to wonder: what specifically in these stories are the part that teaches valuable skills and what are they called? They go by the name theme; a universal message about life. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck contains themes indisposable to any reader. Set in a farm where the hours are long and the pay is sparse during the great depression, the characters face a…

Clever Coyote By: Ziching Yang #26 This myth, Clever Coyote is a myth from the Comanche tribe. In this myth Coyote, a dog is the protagonist and the monster is the antagonist. The monster stole all the buffalo in the village. The problem is that the monster wants to eat all the buffalo in the village and Coyote found out the monster also has a little boy in captive. In this myth, the theme of the story is, “If you are clever, sometimes you can find a way to outsmart your opponent.” Another…

One pig was hung, another burnt in public. Animal trials were a very common thing in the Middle ages. If your animal hurt another human or destroyed crops it could be sent to court and tried just as a regular person would be. In the Middles ages animals were tried for many things and punished in many different ways, such as jail time or even execution. September 5, 1379, Perrinot Muet was killed by two herds of pigs who had grown aggravated, attacking Muet until he passed. The pigs who had…