Joseph Stalin as Napoleon
Joseph Stalin was viewed as one of the many rulers in history that brought the most mind-controlling fear and spilled blood to the nation they reigned and ruled in. He served as the leader of the Soviet Union and the opposing confrontation of Leon Trotsky, promoting dictatorship and communism.
Stalin's role in the novel Animal Farm is Napoleon, a boar portrayed as one of the successors of Old Major (Vladimir Lenin) and the other being Snowball (Leon Trotsky). Compared to his counterpart, he is shown to possess much less cleverness and therefore appears to be less of a idealistic representative.
He however makes it up with brutality and did many immoral things to get rid of adversaries like Trotsky and even people who supported him. As written in Animal Farm, Napoleon threatened all the farm animals with a warning that anyone of them who are secretly admiring or believes in Trotsky's ideals must be executed. The dogs (NKVD, secret police force) were in charge of prosecution and fulfillment of Napoleon's brutal wills.
After his main enemy Snowball is gone, his influence over the farm increases tremendously day by day. With the great help from Squealer (Vyacheslav Molotov), a very talented manipulator, he is able to transform and spread propaganda from animalism to dictatorship, to almost every animal in the farm. During the Russian revolution, the crowd was won by the propaganda spread from the newspapers and the Communist Propaganda group. The people were brain-washed into thinking that the dictator's doings are always righteous as seen with the Cultural Revolution where people of China worshipped Mao Ze Dong as the "sun" and would go so far to call him a god, and propaganda still exists today to tell the tale of the "great leader" even he is no longer alive.
To abuse and claim power is what Stalin succeeded in doing, and he has used the least of this potential strength to improve his nation.
Stalin's role in the novel Animal Farm is Napoleon, a boar portrayed as one of the successors of Old Major (Vladimir Lenin) and the other being Snowball (Leon Trotsky). Compared to his counterpart, he is shown to possess much less cleverness and therefore appears to be less of a idealistic representative.
He however makes it up with brutality and did many immoral things to get rid of adversaries like Trotsky and even people who supported him. As written in Animal Farm, Napoleon threatened all the farm animals with a warning that anyone of them who are secretly admiring or believes in Trotsky's ideals must be executed. The dogs (NKVD, secret police force) were in charge of prosecution and fulfillment of Napoleon's brutal wills.
After his main enemy Snowball is gone, his influence over the farm increases tremendously day by day. With the great help from Squealer (Vyacheslav Molotov), a very talented manipulator, he is able to transform and spread propaganda from animalism to dictatorship, to almost every animal in the farm. During the Russian revolution, the crowd was won by the propaganda spread from the newspapers and the Communist Propaganda group. The people were brain-washed into thinking that the dictator's doings are always righteous as seen with the Cultural Revolution where people of China worshipped Mao Ze Dong as the "sun" and would go so far to call him a god, and propaganda still exists today to tell the tale of the "great leader" even he is no longer alive.
To abuse and claim power is what Stalin succeeded in doing, and he has used the least of this potential strength to improve his nation.