Animal Farm: Napolean-Stalin

Animal Farm is one of George Orwell’s most controversial pieces of work. One would say that Animal Farm is an allegory of Stalinism, growing out from the Russian Revolution in 1917. Because it is cast as an animal fable it gives the reader/viewer, some distance from the specific political events. The use of the fable form helps one to examine the certain elements of human nature which can produce a Stalin and enable him to seize power. In this case Napoleon was the Stalin of the book. Many elements of the book indicate this very subtly at times and clearly at other times.

Napoleon, like Stalin, uses methods to make him look favorable by simply altering the rules to his needs at the time. Squealer is responsible for most of this transgression. All of the Seven Commandments of Animal Farm are eventually broken before the commandments are revised to establish that the pigs did nothing wrong. In the eighth chapter, the commandment that strictly forbids animals to kill one another was cunningly changed to "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause" (Orwell 63) after a series of executions of supposed traitors and probable Snowball followers. Napoleon forced confess

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