Dictatorship In Animal Farm

Over the course of the novel Animal Farm, many animals stuck out. A duo that was truly different were pigs named Napoleon and Squealer. After the revolution in which they kicked the humans off the farm, he co-led the farm with another pig called Snowball. The reader could infer at this point that the animal’s revolution was a parallel to the Russian revolution that started 30 years prior to the book Animal Farm being written. Snowball represents Leon Trotsky and Napoleon represents Joseph Stalin. Like Trotsky, Snowball was exiled from the farm and was forced to go to another one. Napoleon led the farm under dictatorship for the rest of the novel. Some leaders will use any means, even distortion of truth, to retain power. This is definitely
They will lie not just to stay in power, but even to have a leisure life style. On page 22 Squealer said this: ”’Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brain-workers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples.'" Squealer represents spin doctors or biased media to an extent. In another of his speeches he makes Napoleon sound like a
This trust can mostly be credited to Squealer. “…The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white (metaphorically).” (Page 9) Napoleon threatened that Jones might come back if he was not in charge. The stubborn animals believed this and trusted that Napoleon was the sole reason why Jones was gone. With this trust the animals were more open to his ideas. Napoleon promised the stalls would be lighted and heated as soon as the windmill was finished. Once the windmill was completed, Napoleon did not hold up to his promise but instead used it for his own benefit to make money. Again, the animals were too stubborn to notice and distracted by trying to compensate for the empty leadership role as a leader. They have this great trust for Napoleon that he will always do the right thing. It goes to the extent where the animals never even check in their minds to see what they are saying is true or not and the animals will just believe it