Betrayal And Corruption In George Owell's Animal Farm

Snowball is eventually forced out of the farm when Napoleon uses his guard dogs to attack Snowball. After that, he is blamed for issues of the farm, and it is claimed that he was in support of Mr. Jones at the beginning. Even though he fought for Mr. Jones and the shorts offends are distorted to wounds Napoleon perpetrated on him, those faulted of associating him are achieved after being required to profess, or declare, and a compensation is proposed for his capture.

After the dirty deed of murder was done Napoleon accused Snowball of being a traitor working with Mr. Jones trying to have him Mr. Jones reacquire the farm. The great ideas of Snowball were taken by Napoleon and claimed to have made his own like the Snowballs design of the windmill. The work on the farm increased and since it is a democracy where everyone agrees to make decisions, Napoleon tells the people he will do what is best for them. It starts to create a divide among the working animals and the pigs who were the brains of the operation.

Despite Napoleon’s seemingly selfless motives, he is presented as the epitome of a power-hungry individual who supported all of his actions with the excuse that they are done for the improvement of the farm. When he stole the milk and apples, for example, he lied and explained that those foods had nutrients that only the pigs needed. When Napoleon ran Snowball off the farm, Napoleon told all of the other animals that Snowball was actually a

In chapter VII, when anything goes wrong on the farm, be it a broken window or a misplaced key, Napoleon blames Snowball. Napoleon blaming Snowball for everything that goes wrong on the farm is an allegory for how Joseph Stalin blamed Leon Trotsky for Russia’s issues as a means to unite the people against a common enemy. In chapter VII, multiple animals confess to conspiring with Snowball. Napoleon uses his attack dogs to kill all of the confessors. This is an allegory for Joseph Stalin’s “purges.”

The farm was ran fair and Napoleon was following the majority of the rules. He acted as if he were happy and wanted it to stay the way it is. Soon, there will be a rivalry that makes Napoleon change his ways. Next, a rivalry between Snowball and Napoleon broke out.

Napoleon is an opportunitist. When he realizes that he can turn a situation, whether good or bad, to his advantage, he does so. For example, when the windmill topples, he tells that that Snowball is the cause and turns the animals against him. From then on he makes Snowball a scapegoat. Whenever something goes wrong, it is because of Snowball. This makes the animals feel that they are lucky to have Napoleon instead. It is also an easy way out as it keeps the animals from finding out where the blame really lies. This secures Napoleon's leadership position as the he will not be blamed for anything wrong and creates the illusion that Napoleon's ruling is perfect, making him indispensable. In the case of the timber, he uses Snowball to back up his decision. Since the animals are against him, the party he is not selling to will have Snowball residing there. This causes the animals to support his decision.

When Napoleon violently seizes power, he quickly justifies his takeover by falsely denouncing his former ally and fellow revolutionary, Snowball, as a human-sympathizer and enemy of Animalism. In fact, he continuously retells the story of Snowball’s “treachery” until Snowball’s role in the Rebellion and subsequent founding of Animal Farm has been completely effaced. Despite the fact that many of the animals remember Snowball receiving a medal for his bravery in the Battle of the Cowshed, Squealer convinces them that Snowball had actually fought alongside Mr. Jones against the animals. Loyal Boxer, who has trouble believing the official tale, is convinced otherwise when Squealer tells him that Napoleon knows it to be true. “Ah, that is different,” exclaims Boxer.

Napoleon is blaming Snowball for all the terrible acts that have been happening on the farm to make himself seem even greater. The conflicts Napoleon has created with Snowball has caused a great confusion as to who would be the best leader for the

Snowball dove into his work which made him blind to what Napoleon’s real actions were. Snowball was sometimes blind to the truth because he always looked at the bigger picture. The book says snowball, “not considered to have the same depth of character” (12). Snowball was just more compassionate and that made him blind to the evilness of

Napoleon was so eager to keep his power that he used scapegoats for anything that went wrong on the farm. When the windmill that all the animals had been building collapsed, Napoleon did not want faith in him to be lost and replaced with rebellious thoughts. Napoleon relieved himself of any blame for the bad construction plans of the windmill by naming Snowball, who unbeknownst to the other animals had been killed, as the person responsible for its collapse. He told them that Snowball was a traitor and that anyone found to be in league with him would be punished.

" This truly started the rivalry and the arguing that started to happen instead of farm meetings. Now the issue of the windmill intensifies the rivalry between Snowball and Napoleon as this is Snowball's pet project and he thinks it's vital to the future success of Animal Farm. Eventually this rivalry turns into something much more sinister as Napoleon runs Snowball off the farm with the help of the dogs and starts to spread rumors and lies about Snowball to make sure the other animals did not question his

In the Russian Revolution, the police force were made to round up possibly suspicious people who may have been against Stalin, just like Napoleon’s dogs were in charge of rounding up and executing animals who did “bad” things, either in favor of Snowball, or against Napoleon. In the story, they reveal that Napoleon was much more ready to get rid of Snowball than he seemed. Before Snowball left, Napoleon opposed his ideas regarding the construction of the windmill, and disrespected him because of it, but, as a reader, I wouldn’t have guessed that he would go so far as to have Snowball chased out by his pack of dogs. The readers also learn that Napoleon didn’t only dislike Snowball because of the windmill controversy (Napoleon decided to build the windmill anyway after driving out Snowball); he just wanted the power over animal farm to

This scene was very important in furthering the plot in the novel because it was the final step that Napoleon took to gain all of the power. Napoleon had already ran Snowball off of the farm, but ordering the animals to kill him ensured that the power would not be taken from Napoleon. During

The novelist elaborates that since anger is there, there is dishonesty and betrayal as well. Orwell employs the character of Napoleon to be agitated when some animals have admitted that they have been in league with Snowball, so he can know everything about the farm to ruin it and Mr. Frederick would take charge of the farm. As a result of his anger, Napoleon has punished these disloyal animals by ordering his dogs to "[tear] their throats out" (Orwell 84). Because of his hatred to Snowball and being railed against him, Napoleon slaughters the hens who have told him "that Snowball [has] appeared to them in a dream and incited them to disobey Napoleon's orders" (Orwell 84). This emphasizes that Napoleon is very angry and he has severely killed

Snowballs diary entry- This diary entry was to show that since the beginning of Animal Farm, Napoleon has always had malicious intentions. This does show that Napoleon is a corrupt leader because he sends dogs after Snowball, and drives him out; but this was mostly an introduction to how evil Napoleon is. It was more of a way to get the reader ready and understand that worse is yet to