Animal Farm: Napoleon vs. Stalin
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I am a huge Animal Farm fan. Maybe my favorite book. I don't read much... Haha! Anyways this is a journal I wrote for my english class. This is before the paper was graded.
Stalin, the Russian leader during the Russian Revolution, and Napoleon, the head pig and ruler of Animal Farm, share more similarities than another characters and political figures in Animal Farm. Napoleon, in the novel Animal Farm, is modeled almost perfectly off of Joseph Stalin. Napoleon was developed to share character traits with Stalin such as intelligence, leadership, and devotion towards ones country. Just like Stalin was considered a great leader of the Russians, Napoleon was also considered a fantastic leader for Animal Farm. Stalin had tons of followers in his beliefs, the same way Napoleon had a bunch of followers. Many Russians agreed with Joseph Stalin on everything he did, and just about every animal on Animal Farm had a great devotion to and admired Napoleon because he was an extremely fast, smart thinker. However, with all of these followers backing up Stalin and Napoleon, it is impossible to make everybody happy, and both Stalin and Napoleon ran across several enemies. Joseph Stalin both encountered huge enemies during their reins. The enemy that Stalin had to deal with was Leon Trotsky, who greatly disapproved what Stalin was doing with Russia. Napoleon’s “Trotsky” was Snowball, who was actually modeled after Trotsky himself, and Napoleon cleverly negotiates with Snowball after Snowball knocks over the windmill the animals had worked so hard on for a long time. All of these similarities, and no two human beings, or animals, can have the exact same character traits and personality. Joseph, Stalin, was probably the largest supporter of communism in history. While Napoleon had similar beliefs that were considered communist ideas, communism in never once mentioned in Animal Farm; Napoleon, with help of the previous leader, Major, basically created the laws that were adhered to on Animal Farm, and the laws were what they thought was the best for the future of the farm. Amidst all of the amazingly vivid similarities, no two beings are exactly alike, but when George Orwell created Napoleon, he created him in Stalin’s image.
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um so... snowball never pushed the windmill down, it was a storm and napoleon wasnt a good leader. all the animals were too afraid to do anything about Napoleon, because he used language as a form of control. Stalin was NOT a good leader, he executed people in the streets and millions of people died while he was in power. wow, someone needs to do their research. i am only 15 and know a lot more about this book than you.
You got the basic point, but I have to agree with the last comment because Napoleon and Stalin are similar because of how bad of leaders they were. Although they were respected, they were obsessed with power, and eventually led their people to doom.
Thanks, although a few things were off, it was informative :)
You have great ideas and demonstrate thorough knowledge of the subject, but the way you wrote misinterprets a few essential facts in the story, you may want to review certain statements regarding napoleon, snowball and Old Major. For one, Old Major did not work with old major to create the seven commandments. Just as Stalin and Marx did not work together, Marx died 1883, long before stalin came to power. This is paralleled as Old Major dies before any real government is established.
Oops, sorry about that. I meant to say "Napoleon never worked with Old Major"
haha, maybe I should've reviewed my own comment :P
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what is this this is all wrong why are you giving the wrong answer this is not what happend frist things frist they werent cared for form every one and know one eveer liked them and if they ever said any thing to them they would get killed im sorry but u have to fix your essay upp or every on that writes wha you wrote are going to fail
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Did we read the same book, Stalin was evil and ruthless and so was Napoleon. This isn't a complex book at all, everything is so clear so i don't know why you'd ever say Napoleon was intelligent (he stole Snowballs windmill plans remember).
IF YOU'RE GOING TO SUBMIT SOMETHING LIKE THIS ON THE INTERNET, PLEASE PUT A DATE AND YOUR NAME SO I CAN REFERENCE IT IN A BIBLIOGRAPHY. KTHXBY. not saying this is bad, its GOOD, im referencing it.
Who are all these stupid people? Jeez!
1) Though we all know differently now, in Russia Stalin was considered an excellent leader, he was revered but this was because he manipulated them.
2)Stalin was incredibly intelligent you fools, how do you think he got away with the things he did for so long, he utilized people, he played a game and he suceeded for a long time; otherwise how would he have beat of his opponents -Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev and Bukharin- in the Power Struggle.
You may have all read the book but some of you clearly know nothing about the Historical Background. I've studied it and the book and some of these replies to this writers critique and understanding is not only rude but completely irrelevant.
Ummmm im pretty sure that Napoleon and Stalin weren't good leaders they just scared everyone into listening to him. Or he just tricked them into believing him. That is what Squealer did throughout the whole book. Anyone that opposed him he just got rid of thats not good. The secret police just made people look like they liked him when they really didn't. He made people work more for less and he took more. The people of Russsia would have been better off with Csar Nicholas II in power. He may not have fed them enough, but at least he didn't treat people like crap.
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uh.. jj wrong book.
This report is horrible and I'd be suprised if you didn't fail the assignment. Are you sure you read the book?
u were like way off!!! um u should post your report AFTER it's graded... but then i guess you already know that after all the other comments. :)
Meg 2 years ago
this is good thankyou!