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    In Animal Farm, George Orwell reveals the values and the effects of Stalin’s totalitarian government using animal stereotypes and historical figure during the Russian Revolution. Napoleon, the stalinist leader of Animal Farm, abuses power to fear and manipulate members of the farm. Orwell discusses Napoleon’s selfishness that lead him to build a totalitarian government based on terror and lies. Napoleon is one of the best known villain in Animal Farm. Orwell created fictional animals to show…

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    farm and controls the animals. Napoleon slowly starts to break all of the laws leaving only one, “all animals are equal but some are more equal than others.” The author shows the readers how Snowball and Napoleon shape the social structure of Animal Farm and how it changes after the Battle of Cowshed, the…

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    and ambition. But we were wrong, comrades. Do you know what the real reason was? Snowball was in league with Jones from the very start!’” (page 57). This generates fear within the animals because of how Snowball was actually linked with Jones. Snowball is a leader while fighting bravely in the battle of the Cowshed, but Napoleon brainwashed the animals into thinking how he is a spy. Napoleon states how Snowball was faking the battle as if the humans planned to lose from the start. This…

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    treating them. The animals overthrow him as leader and elect Napoleon and Snowball to take his place. Napoleon eventually ejects Snowball as leader and starts to becomes very lousy towards the animals, just as Jones had. Near the end, the pigs start to act like humans, yet they had despised them near the beginning of the plot. Napoleon's corruptive…

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    Animal Farm as an example. On Animal Farm, one of the leaders of the farm, Snowball, was betrayed by the other leader, Napoleon. It is believed that Napoleon was greedy for power and chose not to share it. Therefore, in order to take the farm for himself, Orwell had Napoleon use Jessie’s and Bluebell’s puppies as a force to chase Snowball off of Animal Farm (53). The problem with Snowball being chased out was that Snowball was very proactive and wanted to follow Animalism and Old Major’s ideas…

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    The similarities and differences between the novel Animal Farm and the film in the story are many, but there were more differences than similarities. For example, a difference in the beginning of the movie was on how Old Major had died. In the novel the author stated that days after he gave the speech Old Major had passed away mostly because of old age and in the movie Old Major was shot by Mr.Jones and fell off the farm. The difference does not impact the story very much, but when he got shot…

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    Russia. The name Napoleon represents this character well. Napoleon sounds like a name given to someone who is very powerful and ruthless. After Mr. Jones is removed from the farm, Napoleon and Snowball fight to rule the farm. In the middle of the book, Napoleon gains control of the farm by chasing Snowball off with the nine guard dogs that are under Napoleons control. Napoleon becomes the dictator of Animal Farm and breaks all the rules that are part of the Seven Commandments throughout the…

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    of Animal Farm from Snowball, which is the pig falling. Snowball is represented as a king in this ad, and he is falling out of his throne because the throne had lost the platform it was standing on. The “poof!” cloud underneath the throne is supposed to show this. And the reason for the throne losing its balance is the graves on the ground below the throne. The graves are of the executed animals, thus showing that once the animals supporting his throne are gone, King Snowball is doomed to fall…

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    lied to cover up them up. Snowball became the constant excuse for every one of the farms problems, every time something happened on the farm that was not desirable Napoleon forced all the blame on Snowball. Even natural disasters are blamed on the helpless Snowball. One night there was a huge storm that swept across the farm and destroyed the farms precious windmill in the process. When the animals discovered this had happened Napoleon is quick to assert that “Snowball has done [it ] in sheer…

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    George Orwell that symbolizes the Soviet Union in the 1900s. Two of the major events that occur in the story are the fall of the human rule and the farm turning into a dictatorship. In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, there are two characters named Snowball and Napoleon that symbolize Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Napoleon and Stalin were both dictators that controlled…

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