Animal Farm. Snowball

Snowball Orwells stint in a jog battalion in the Spanish Civil Warduring which he first began plans for a critique of totalitarian communisminfluenced his relatively positive portrayal of Snowball. As a parallel for Leon Trotsky, Snowball emerges as a fervent ideologue who throws himself heart and soul into the attempt to spread living creatureism worldwide and to improve creature Farms infrastructure. His idealism, however, leads to his downfall. Relying only on the force of his own logic and rhetorical skill to gain his influence, he proves no match for sleeps show of brute force.Although Orwell depicts Snowball in a relatively appealing light, he refrains from idealizing his character, making sure to endow him with certain moral flaws. For example, Snowball essentially accepts the superiority of the pigs over the rest of the animals. Moreover, his fervent, single-minded enthusiasm for grand projects such as the windmill might have erupted into full-blown megalomaniac despotism had he non been chased from Animal Farm. Indeed, Orwell suggests that we cannot eliminate government befoulion by electing principled individuals to roles of power he reminds us throughout the novella that it is power itself that corrupts.Boxer The most empathetically drawn character in the novel, Boxer epitomizes all of the best qualities of the exploited workings classes dedication, loyalty, and a huge capacity for labor. He also, however, suffers from what Orwell saw as the working classs major weaknesses a naive trust in the good intentions of the intelligentsia and an inability to recognize even the most blatant forms of policy-making corruption. Exploited by the pigs as much or more than he had been by Mr. Jones, Boxer represents all of the invisible labor that undergirds the political drama cosmos carried out by the elites.Boxers pitiful death at a glue factory dramatically illustrates the extent of the pigs betrayal. It may also, however, speak to the specific signifi cation of Boxer himself before being carted off, he serves as the force that holds Animal Farm together. Napoleon From the very beginning of the novella, Napoleon emerges as an utterly corrupt opportunist. Though always present at the early meetings of the new state, Napoleon never makes a single contribution to the revolutionnot to he aspect of its ideology, not to the bloody struggle that it necessitates, not to the new societys initial attempts to establish itself. He never shows interest in the strength of Animal Farm itself, only in the strength of his power over it. Thus, the only project he undertakes with enthusiasm is the training of a litter of puppies. He doesnt educate them for their own good or for the good of all, however, but rather for his own good they become his own private army or inscrutable police, a violent means by which he imposes his will on others.Although he is most directly modeled on the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, Napoleon represents, in a more gen eral sense, the political tyrants that have emerged throughout human history and with particular frequency during-the twentieth century. His namesake is not any communistic leader but the early-eighteenth-century French general Napoleon, who betrayed the democratic principles on which he rode to power, arguably becoming as great a despot as the aristocrats whom he supplanted.It is a testament to Orwells acute political intelligence and to the universality of his fable that Napoleon can easily stand for any of the great dictators and political schemers in world history, even those who arose after Animal Farm was written. In the behavior of Napoleon and his henchmen, one can detect the lying and bullying manoeuvre of totalitarian leaders such as Josip Tito, Mao Tse-tung, Pol Pot, Augusto Pinochet, and Slobodan Milosevic treated in sharply critical terms.