Compare and contrast the ways… – English essay

The two characters I have chosen for my essay are napoleon and snowball, this is because I think that they are two very different types of leaders. Animal farm is written by George Orwell and represents the Russian revolution with animals. In the book Trotsky is represented by snowball and Stalin represented by napoleon. Starting with napoleon, he likes power and when he gets power he uses it to do what he wants and forces people to go with it. Snowball on the other hand likes power but uses democracy to make ideas better, making a better life for the people he’s in control of. When trying to achieve something that they want napoleon will use force to make people agree with him, maybe using people to make him seem like a better person and believe that what he is doing is the right thing to do when in fact it is the opposite(brainwashes you). Snowball on the other hand will present the idea to the targeted people/audience and uses democracy, then he makes it better so more people(or in this case animals) this way makes a lot more people happier and better in the long run. The author of the book, George Orwell wants his readers to think of the Russian revolution and the people involved in it. He does this in a genius way by putting them into animals and using that to interpret the Russian revolution. One way the book represents the revolution is the start, in the start the animals (people of the revolution) chase out Mr.Jones (tsar Nicholas 2) I think the way the author has done this is very good and that is why the book is also interesting to read. So George Orwell wants us to think about the characters (in my case, snowball and napoleon) in the same way that the people felt about the leaders in the revolution. I think that George Orwell has succeeded in doing that.