In one part of the book Napoleon charged the dogs on Snowball, another animal. ... Trotsky and Stalin-s relationship was very much like Snowball-s and Napoleons. ... They chased Snowball away. ... Snowball first introduced the windmill concept to the farm but Napoleon disagreed with him and had the dogs chase him away. ... When it blew down, Napoleon blamed it on Snowball. ...
In one part of the book Napoleon charged the dogs on Snowball, another animal. ... Trotsky and Stalin's relationship was very much like Snowball's and Napoleons. ... They chased Snowball away. ... Snowball first introduced the windmill concept to the farm but Napoleon disagreed with him and had the dogs chase him away. ... When it blew down, Napoleon blamed it on Snowball. ...
Napoleon also told them to remember that "in the fight against man, we (the animals) must not come to resemble man" (21). Napoleon and the pigs started to bear a resemblance to and become friends with the enemy. ... This relates to how Napoleon is attaining the authority, respect, and the privilege. ... Napoleon resembles the mad dictator known as Joseph Stalin, and Snowball, who was betrayed by Napoleon and banished from the farm (Russia), is an allegory of Trotsky. ... The rest of the animals also play certain parts in the parallel; Boxer as the working class, Molly as White Russia (those wh...
Farmer Jones is Czar Nicholas II, Overthrown by the revolution and later executed by the Bolsheviks; Old Major is Marx and perhaps Marxist-Leninism; Boxer and Clover represent the proletariat (the urban industrial worker)-and more remotely the Chinese revolutionaries of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion; Napoleon stands for Joseph Stalin; Snowball is Leon Trotsky; Mollie is at heart a White Russian with little sympathy for Bolshevik aims; the raven Moses stands for the Russian Orthodox church and to a lesser extent the Roman Catholic church, which at one time Stalin imagined he could reach an accord; S...
