... dictator Joseph Stalin, Napoleon represents, in a more general sense, the political tyrants that have emerged throughout human history and with particular frequency during the twentieth century. II. Snowball, based on Leon Trotsky, is the pig who challenges Napoleon to run Animal Farm after the Rebellion. Snowball is sharp, articulate, zealous and much less restrained and scheming than Napoleon. As a comparable to ... Leon Trotsky, Snowball starts as a enthusiastic advocator of ideology, who put every ounce of his heart and soul into the attempt of spreading Animalism worldwide, but his...

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... so long until a new totalitarian government is established. The struggle for power between Napoleon and Snowball represents the same struggle between Leon Trotsky and Josef Stalin. In both the historical and fictional cases, the romantic but less powerful figure (Snowball and Trotsky) is excluded from the revolutionary state by the malicious and violent and violent upheaval of power (Napoleon and Stalin). Snowball emerges ... ...

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... have a parallel in Stalinist Russia: Mr Jones, the evil farmer, represents the Russian Czar; Napolean, the power hungry boar, portrays the corrupt Joesph Stalin and Snowball, the idealistic pig, personifies Leon Trotsky, the clever partner of Stalin. However, Animal Farm is not simply a satire on the Russian Revolution. The novel is replete with messages and lessons regarding blind conformity and the misuse ... ...

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