Animal Farm Allegory – Revolution and Dystopia

Eric Blair, known by his pen name George Orwell, was an Englishman whose writings attacked political and neighborly oppression. One of his best-known engages, Animal Farm, was written in 1945 and is a satire on abusive political power and an parable of Russian history. George Orwells life experiences influenced Animal Farm as a student, he was discriminated against, and as an adult he was often impoverished and rebelled against social and economic oppression. short sleep, a huge Berkshire boar who becomes the dictator of Animal Farm, exhibits some(prenominal) of the traits of Stalin and new(prenominal) dictators as he constantly manages thought and belief, sets up a scapegoat, and proves his power by making some others suffer. Napoleon uses his agent Squealer to manipulate thought and belief about he happenings on the bring on fair as Stalin used the communist newspaper, Pravda. Throughout the course of the novel, the animals altogether work on the windmill, the main projec t of the farm.At the very start, Napoleon had been unlike to the idea of the windmill, but through Squealer makes all the other animals moot that he had never in reality been opposed to the windmill (Orwell 71). Napoleon is in all probability opposed to the idea of the windmill because it was Snowballs idea first. later Snowball was expelled, Napoleon takes the idea as his own so he give the gate have the credit if it succeeds, and if it doesnt then he can blame Snowball.Joseph Stalin did much of the same idea in that if anything worked, it was his idea and if it failed, he quickly found a scapegoat. Napoleon also uses Squealer to turn out propaganda about his false feelings for the animals. He has Squealer give long speeches in which he would talk with the tears rolling down his cheeks of Napoleons wisdom, the goodness of his heart, and the deep love he bore to all animals everywhere, level off and especially the unhappy animals who still lived in ignorance and slavery on ot her farms (Orwell 100).Napoleon obviously doesnt charge much for the animals on the farm just as Stalin and other dictators befoolt really c are about the well creation of the people that they rule. Napoleon, like Stalin and other dictators, uses propaganda to oblige control over the people, and keep himself in power. Just as Stalin sets up Trotsky as his scapegoat for things that go wrong, Napoleon makes Snowball his scapegoat throughout the novel so Napoleon never takes the blame for anything.As conditions on the farm start to deteriorate under Napoleons rule, Napoleon tells the animals that Snowball stole the corn, he upset the milk-pails, he broke the eggs, he trampled the seedbeds, he gnawed the bark off the fruit trees (Orwell 88). This isnt the case, as Snowball had never done any of those things just as all scapegoats usually dont commit any of the crimes they are accused of. Napoleon, like Stalin and other dictators, need to set up a scapegoat for poor conditions so tha t failures will never reflect poorly on them.As conditions on the farm grow worse and worse under Napoleons rule, it becomes commonplace for the animals to accept that Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball (Orwell 88). A big enough lie has been told about Snowball so often, that all the animals just automatically believe that all the problems on the farm are Snowballs fault. Without scapegoats to blame all their problems on, dictators would be overthrown nevertheless to a greater extent quickly than they usually are. Napoleon shares another trait with other dictators in that he mustiness prove his power by making others suffer.To friend wash his submits of all of the failures of the farm, Napoleon, by intimidation, forces four pigs to confess that they had been on the Q.T. in touch with Snowball ever since his expulsion, that they had collaborated with him in destroying the windmill, and that they had entered into an agreement with him to hand over Animal Farm to Mr. Frederick (Orwell 92). Napoleon holds these trials of the animals and forces them to confess to things that they didnt do just as Joseph Stalin did during the Moscow Purge Trails.The trials continue and the reasons for slaughtering become even more ridiculous as some animals are even murder for having a dream of Snowball. The awful trials continue, until there was a pile of corpses fabrication before Napoleons feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been alien there since the expulsion of Jones (Orwell 93). The society that the pigs and Napoleon created has now come to mirror the society that the animals had rebelled against at the beginning of the novel. Napoleon, like other dictators, feels that he must continually prove his power in order to keep from being overthrown.Napoleon constantly manipulates the thoughts and beliefs of the other animals, sets up Snowball as a scapegoat, and proves his power by making others suffer for his f ailures, similar to how Stalin and other dictators launch and controlled their regimes. When those in power become corrupt, prosperous societies become dystopias controlled by the wishes and wants of those who lead. professional Acton once said that Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, a al-Qaida that is echoed not only throughout this novel, but also throughout history.