Napoleon And Snowball Research Paper

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.

A cow, a sheep, a chicken, Muriel, Boxer, and Napoleon are on the bottom left corner. They represent Animal Farms’ society and ideals. The animal’s expressions are clueless, excluding Napoleon, who has a heroically outraged expression. Napoleon is shown as being very concerned, but he is actually behind the rest of the animals. This reflects his behavior in Animal Farm. However, Napoleon is placed above the other farm animals. This is how Napoleon wishes to be seen. This shows Napoleon as a caring leader of the animals. Snowball is shown as a large threat, standing on two feet and being unequal to the other animals because of his height. His trotters are reaching out, as if to steal from the animals. Squealer would use these lies and images as fear propaganda to convince the animals of Snowball being a

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.

Napoleon has his dogs chase Snowball off the farm and and then blames Snowball for everything that goes wrong on the farm. Soon, the pigs become more powerful, they move into the farmhouse, wear human clothes, and walk upon two feet. As the farm begins to fall apart and the animals are treated even more cruelly, it becomes almost impossible to distinguish the pigs from the humans. The novel is a representation of the Soviet Union, from the Russian Revolution of 1917 to Joseph Stalin’s rise to power.

Snowball works at teaching the animals to be literate, and Napoleon takes a group of young pups to instruct them on the ideologies of Animalism. When Mr. Jones shows up to retake his farm, the animals defeat him once again, in a fight known as the “Battle of the Cowshed”, and keeps the farmer’s abandoned gun as a spoil of war for their win. As time goes on, however, Napoleon and Snowball gradually bicker more and more over the future of the farm, and they begin to fight with each other for power and influence over the other animals. Snowball comes up with a scheme to build an electricity-generating windmill, but Napoleon strongly opposes the idea. At the meeting to vote on whether to take up the project, Snowball gives a very impactful speech. Even though Napoleon gives only a brief rebuttal, he proceeds to make a weird noise, and nine attack dogs— who were actually the puppies that Napoleon had seized in order to “educate”—rush into the barn and chase Snowball away. Napoleon then takes leadership of Animal Farm and declares that there won’t be any more meetings. From that point on, he proclaims that the pigs alone will make all of the choices, for the benefit of each animal. Napoleon quickly changes his mind about the project, and the animals, especially Boxer, dedicate their efforts to completing it. One day, after a storm, the animals find the windmill tipped over. The human farmers in the area declare proudly that the animals made the

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.

Shortly after the Revolution, Snowball comes up with the plan to construct a windmill to make the lives of the inhabitants of Animal Farm easier. Napoleon hides in the shadows per se until the puppies that he has taken and trained are old enough to act as a police force. Once they are old enough, Napoleon has the dogs drive Snowball off the farm. He then takes credit for the idea of the windmill and proceeds to claim that he, not Snowball, won the award at the Battle of Cowshed. Napoleon then informs the animals that Snowball was an enemy and was a threat to Animal Farm. The animals are swayed by his propaganda and are fearful of his police dogs; this is what keeps him in power.

In the Animal Farm, Snowball was aware of every aspect of the farm. He was always stressed and worried for the well-being of the farm animals. Snowball was eventually the scape goat of the farm and fled because Napoleon thought that Snowball was a threat to his leadership. Snowball knew too much and paid the price of happiness and sanctuary. An example in the book says, “At the meetings, Snowball often won over the majority with his brilliant speeches. . .” (Orwell 47). This proves that Snowball was very smart and won favor over Napoleon, causing conflict. Napoleon wanted him gone so he had Snowball chased off the farm. Snowball was not ignorant and he paid very heavily for the

The windmill idea was brought up by Snowball himself but was rudely denied by Napoleon who hated the slightest details of the idea itself. In the barn while they were trying to convince animals if the windmill was a good idea, the animals were not one sided which raised Napoleons range even more which triggered him to kick off his plan. "At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws." (Orwell 35) This was the beginning of Napoleon's power and the end of Snowballs existence at Animal Farm. But it wasn’t over yet. Napoleon did gain control and started the idea of the windmill once again because he wanted the animals hard at work. "On the third Sunday after Snowballs expulsion, the animals were somewhat surprised to hear Napoleon announce that the windmill was to be built after all. He did not give any reason for having changed his mind, but merely warned the animals that this extra task would mean very hard work." (Orwell 38) After months the windmill was half finished and someone decided to destroy their hard work. Napoleon was very quick to blame snowball and also offered "Animal hero, second class" to whomever finds him. Four days later when Napoleon ordered all the animals onto the yard, four pigs confessed to their crimes as to helping Snowball destroy the windmill and exposing all of Snowballs secrets. "When they had finished their confessions the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess." (Orwell 56) Many confessed to crimes but Napoleon didn’t show any mercy and continued with the executions. Sooner than later, there was a pile of bodies

Much of the following year is spent building the windmill. Jones forsakes the farm and moves to another part of the country. In contrary to the principles of Animalism, Napoleon hires a solicitor and begins trading with neighboring farms. When a storm makes the half-finished windmill collapse, Napoleon blames Snowball and orders the animals to rebuild

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.

Napoleon has wanted power over the farm for awhile and will do anything to keep it. He takes Jessie and Bluebells newborn puppies and trains them for the main aspect of his fear campaign. He teaches them to do what is right for the farm and to only think about the Animal Farm’s future. He uses the puppies to eliminate his nemesis. Snowball comes up with the idea for a windmill on the farm, Napoleon opposes it and uses his trained dogs to chase Snowball off the farm. With Snowball gone, Napoleon declares himself the ruler of the farm. “They dashed straight for Snowball… he slipped through the fence and was seen no more. (Orwell, pg. 53 chap. 5).”

Obviously, it was a great idea convincing the other animals about the windmill. However, Napoleon is here convincing the animals of Snowball causing farm troubles. For example, he told the animals that Snowball is a traitor because he was working for Foxwood Farm and he also said he proof of the secret documentation of Snowball working for Foxwood. However, Snowball is the animalism because he wanted the animals to be treated equally and have their freedom just like Old major had a dream about. On the other hand, Napoleon didn’t care for the animals he just wanted power so he had seven secret police dogs to scare away Snowball from the farm and also to kill any animal that didn’t obey his

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

that what Napoleon does and says is right. He is able to talk to the