Page 1 of 4 Khalil Mitchell Mrs. Tanner PM 6 July 2023 Stalin’s Allegorical Counterpart Animals have formed a communist government on a farm. In the book Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the farm animals revolt against Mr. Jones, their owner. Pigs become the leaders because they are much smarter than the rest of the animals. Napoleon Becomes the sole ruler of Animal Farm. He ends up becoming just as cruel a leader as Mr. Jones. Napoleon was the counterpart to Joseph Stalin because Napoleon used dogs to maintain power on the farm, while Stalin used the secret police; they both used propaganda to influence the masses; and Stalin initiated the Five-Year plan while Napoleon initiated the construction of the windmill. Napoleon and Stalin both use …show more content…
The pigs make the rest of the farm work to produce barley, with it, they make beer (Orwell 8). Napoleon adds more work and makes more demanding quotas. Napoleon uses Squealer to announce their progress on the quotas of food production. Even though the animals are starving, Squealer’s quotas say they are doing amazing in food production, which spurs them on to continue working. During this time, he made almost all food be taken for the quota. He made the hens’ egg quota go higher, so they barely had enough eggs to make more hens (Orwell 7). Stalin had done something very similar. He introduced the Five-Year Plan to industrialize the USSR. He made quotas so demanding that almost all food grown by farmers was taken, leaving farmers starving (University of Waterloo). This made the people of the USSR struggle to survive. Despite all this, it can be argued that Napoleon isn’t a counterpart of Joseph Stalin. T.S. Elliot believed that Animal Farm was too controversial. At the time the book was published, the USSR was allies with Great Britain. Since the Russian leaders were displayed as pigs, it was thought that they would take offense (T S Elliot). Nonetheless, George Orwell has put too …show more content…
Napoleon and Stalin both were power hungry leaders. They both used propaganda to influence the suggestable masses. The leaders had both used military force to suppress the people. In the end, both were cruel leaders who used fear and power to establish totalitarian control over the people. Works Cited “Animal Farm: At a Glance | CliffsNotes.” Www.cliffsnotes.com, www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/animal-farm/animal-farm-at-a-glance. Brandenberger, David. “Stalin as Symbol: A Case Study of the Cult of Personality and Its Construction.” Stalin: A New History, 1 Jan. 2005, pp. 249–270, scholarship.richmond.edu/history-faculty-publications/33/. Orwell, George. Animal Farm. William Collins, 2021. T S Elliot. “British Library.” Www.bl.uk, 13 July 1994, www.bl.uk/collection-items/letter-from- t-s-eliot-faber-to-george-orwell-rejecting-animal-farm-13-july- 1944#:~:text=Many%20publishers%20thought%20the%20work. University Of Waterloo. “The First Five Year Plan, 1928-1932.” Special Collections & Archives, 7 Oct. 2015, uwaterloo.ca/library/special-collections-archives/first-five-year- plan#:~:text=The%20first%20five%20year%20plan%20was%20created%20in%20order
“Animal Farm”, although written as a an animal moral tale, has a profound and philosophical meaning when looked into deeper. The novel is an allegory story about a period in Russian history staring from the Tsar’s Russia to Stalin’s USSR. Using simple and symbolic terms, Orwell describes the development of
George Orwell represents Joseph Stalin as Napoleon in the book Animal Farm, as an egotistical leader who will go to extreme limits to keep as much power as he can. In the book Napoleon relates to Stalin by being a fierce leader that wanted all the power he could gain. They were both very good talkers and could manipulate a lot of people into doing anf getting things their way. They were also really selfish and did not care about the massacres that went on throughtout to people they were dominant over. Napoleon and Stalin were both power hungry and nothing stopped them.
The Russian Revolution was a political and social revolt. To the Russian citizens, it was a gander of hope and innovation towards a civilization of parity, but the extent of this revolution was nothing more than a horrendous nightmare full of totalitarianism, genocide, and corruption. Animal Farm is an allegory to the revolution, its characters are parallels to people from the revolution, like Joseph Stalin, and Czar Nicholas II. Orwell’s analogies to the revolution are easily interpreted, and indisputably well put together. While reading Animal Farm, an audience can learn to view partisanship, and corruption as individuals and societies.
Stalin and Napoleon, the pig from George Orwell’s Animal Farm, share many striking similarities in their leadership styles, tactics, and personalities. Both figures were known for their abominations, their willingness to use violence and fear to achieve their goals, and their ruthless pursuit of power. In this essay, we will explore some of the similarities between Stalin and Napoleon and the impact of their leadership on their respective societies. One of the most obvious similarities between these two is their use of propaganda to control the masses. Both of them understood the power of controlling narratives and shaping public opinion to keep their grip on power.
Animal Farm by George Orwell depicts a world where animals are promised freedom from oppression, a society without class division, and equality for all. However, these promises are broken when Napoleon, the dictator, rises to power through fear and manipulation. In order to maintain his power, Napoleon utilizes the power of propaganda and censorship to control what the animals see and believe. This essay will explore how the use of fear and manipulation allowed Napoleon to rise to power, and how propaganda and censorship allowed him to maintain his rule.
The history of humankind reveals the cyclical flaws embodied in an individual’s nature. These occurrences are depicted in literature, through which we subjectively compare the zeitgeist of different eras. Authors often characterize the human ethos as the plot of the story, as which can be most prevalently noted through George Orwell’s Animal Farm, where he expressed his dissatisfaction for the Soviet Union’s abuse of the Marxist theory. The novel serves as a satirical piece relaying the Bolshevik Revolution, the overthrowing of the, through the usage of animals. Orwell deciphers the cyclical nature of power for mankind and how outside forces lead mankind into the folly of maligne totalitarianism.
(“By George Orwell”) Another huge similarity between Stalin and Napoleon was an introduction of a five-year plan. The plan was recommended by Stalin who promised to help improve and expand industry in Russia. His plan kept failing, but he never gave up. Equally, Napoleon had the idea of building a windmill, which will be used to help improve the production on the farm. However, the windmill was knocked down, and this represents the fall of the five-year plan.
Stalin, the leader of the Communist army in Russia and the most powerful man in the past uses violence to the ones that go against him. He has a style of dictatorship where many people suffer. Gunshots going across, people dying out, outcry, burst in tears with bruises all over the body, killing in harsh condition all occurs during Russian Revolution. The historical background of George Orwell’s Animal Farm is also the Russian Revolution. In the book, Napoleon uses dictatorship to order other animals, uses accuration, and give harsh punishment who block his way.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 marked a turning point in the history of the world, as it marked the end of Tsarist rule in Russia and the beginning of the Communist era. The revolution was led by Vladimir Lenin and later continued by Joseph Stalin, who became the leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin's death. George Orwell's Animal Farm, written in 1945, is a fiction that uses the story of a group of farm animals to satirize the events leading up to the Russian Revolution and the early years of the Soviet Union. In this essay, I will compare and contrast the characteristics and actions of Stalin and Napoleon in Animal Farm, and show how Orwell uses these characters to comment on the events of the Russian Revolution and the nature of power.
Animal Farm is a political fable based on the events of Russia's Bolshevik revolution and the betrayal of the cause by Joseph Stalin. George Orwell’s Animal Farm examines the insidious ways in which public officials can abuse their power, as it depicts a society in which democracy dissolves into autocracy and finally into totalitarianism. From the Rebellion onward, the pigs of Animal Farm use violence and the threat of violence to control the other animals. While it is true that the pigs and dogs led to the farm’s corruption, the pigs were the ones that did the most corruption of Animal Farm. One factor that led to the corruption of animal farms was how good the pigs were at manipulating the animals.
Introduction Animal Farm, a novel published in 1945 by the writer George Orwell, is a fable about how the Soviet regime of Stalin corrupts socialism. In this novel the author uses animals to convey different themes. That of ignorance can lead to oppression, language can be a powerful instrument of control and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Which we will see next in this essay. Development
“One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic” (Stalin). From being a nobody, to a cruel and careless dictator, this illustrates how power can drastically change someone, leading to bigger consequences than imagined. In the novel Animal Farm, George Orwell depicts Russian dictator, Joseph Stalin, characterized by Napoleon, to demonstrate how a gain for power can lead to more corruption than good. To commence with, we see that both Napoleon and Joseph Stalin demolished individual freedom and “…failed to promote individual prosperity” (Hingley). Throughout George Orwell’s story, it is seen how little by little the animals were start to serve Napoleon, thinking they were making themselves prosperous.
Corruption and Leadership In Animal Farm by George Orwell’s it is a satire which is a work that uses irony, and humor. Animal farm is about the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the early years of the Soviet Union. These satires breakdown the political ideology and the power that forms the beast fable. The real-life revolution resulted in the Soviet Union rights violations by Joseph Stalin who was a corrupt leader.in the story the main powers grabs by Napoleon, which represents Stalin, and how the animals would prevent him questioning about violence.
Animal Farm, a novel written by George Orwell is an eternal, sardonic depiction revealing the implications that result when individuals abuse the power which they are appointed. Smartly, Orwell exemplified what happened when the animal inhabitants rebelled in the expectation of an improved life, but, power is demoralized by some to gain comprehensive control by implementing fear and terror upon the other animals. Animal Farm is an allegorical story due to the fact that the main action of Animal Farm stands for the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the early years of the Soviet Union. Animalism is really communism. Major, Boxer, Benjamin, Napoleon, Snowball, and Squealer are very important characters which take a very key role in the story’s happenings.
George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a story that represents the rise of Stalin, as well as his many threats. In Animal Farm, we see Animal Farm turn from a free place where animals held their own, to a communist workplace over Napoleon’s rule, much like Joseph Stalin did during his rule. Stalin caused fear so nobody would try to take over, much like Napoleon. Stalin and Napoleon both did horrible things, causing fear and terror, and sometimes even did the same things. Stalin was a terrible human being.