Animal Farm Essay
The two pigs, Napoleon an Snowball, play big parts in the book about Animal Farm. They both wanted to have the leader role at the farm, but they both realize that there is only room for one leader and that one of them has to step down. Napoleon and Snowball argue a lot, and Orwell wrote this about it, “Snowball and Napoleon were by far the most active in the debates. But it was noticed that these two were never in agreement: whatever suggestion either of them made, the other could be counted to oppose it.” Later the arguing gets more intense, “These two disagree at every point disagreement was possible.”
After Snowball has led a successful harvest, he wins the trust from all of the animals. Snowball works to improve the farm and only want what's good for the farm. He has a lot of good ideas for the farm, and his windmill becomes a huge problem for Napoleon, and he tries to turn the whole farm against Snowball. Snowball wants all the animals to build a windmill together so their work would be easier. All the animals are voting if they want to build the windmill or not, Napoleon means that the windmill is pointless and advises the animals not to vote for the windmill.
Earlier in the book, one of the dogs gives birth to a litter of puppies, but dies right after. Napoleon then take the puppies to educate them and make them his own guards. After a while all of the animals forget about the puppies, sensing they never were seen after the birth. When it becomes obvious for Napoleon that the animals will vote for Snowballs windmill, he becomes jealous and angry. The puppies come in to the meeting and attacks Snowball under the meeting, casting him away from the farm, and Napoleon uses them to take over the leadership.
When the windmill they have built is destroyed for the first time, Napoleon has no trouble blaming Snowball, “do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has com in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!” Napoleon only talks Snowball down, so he seems like a better animal and the leader, and all of the other animals believe him.
Napoleon is very self-centered, and sees him self almost as a God, in his head he was so much more important then the other animals. No one referred to him only as “Napoleon” after he became the leader, he was always referred to as “our Leader, Comrade Napoleon”, The other pigs also give him different titles such as, Father of All Animals, Terror of Mankind, Protector of the Sheep-fold, and Ducklings' friend. He always ate alone with the dogs guarding him, and made them taste the food in case someone tried to poison him. Napoleon also changes the commandments, so they work better for himself. For an example, he makes it acceptable for the pigs to sleep in the human beds. He means that it is not a violation of the old commandments since they do not have the sheets on the beds.
Snowball comes back to the farm, and a discussion starts about whether he was a traitor or not. Squealer, Napoleon's right hand, tries very hard to keep everyone against Snowball, and tries to convince them that Snowball worked for the humans all the time. Boxer argues against it, saying that Snowball was fighting too bravely in the battle to be a traitor. The other animals want to think good about Snowball, something Napoleon does not like at all. Napoleon tries so hard to get the other animals angry at Snowball, and tells them that Snowball poisened his food.
I think that Snowball only thought about the animals good and wanted the farm to succeed in the best way. It seems like Napoleon cares more about being the king, and keeping the farm as his kingdom. He brainwashes the other animals in a way, and uses Squealer to make it happen. Napoleon is more self-centered then Snowball. They have a huge disagreement, and are fighting hard for the spot as leader of the farm. Napoleon uses more violence than Snowball to get what he want, and he lies to the other animals for his own fortune. Although Snowball and Napoleon had a lot of differences, they also had a lot in common. They both wanted to be leaders so badly that they both were very opinionated and stubborn. They both refused to fail in their mission, and yet Snowball did 'fail', as he was cast out by Napoleon.
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