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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (58852)	12/13/2009 6:12:20 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217540

committees? wrong kingdom. i wish i could print money for the kingdom ;0)

To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (58852)	12/13/2009 6:26:18 AM
From: elmatador	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217540

Snowball makes a speech in favour of the windmill, whereupon Napoleon has his dogs chase Snowball away. In Snowball's absence, Napoleon declares himself leader and makes changes. Meetings will no longer be held and instead a committee of pigs will run the farm. ELMAT:Snowball Snowball Napoleon's rival and original head of the farm after Jones' overthrow. He is probably an allusion to Leon Trotsky, although given Orwell's opinion of Trotsky he could be interpreted as representing the Mensheviks. He wins over most animals and gains their trust by leading a very successful first harvest, but is driven out of the farm by Napoleon. Snowball genuinely works for the good of the farm and the animals and devises plans to help the animals achieve their vision of an egalitarian utopia, but Napoleon and his dogs chase him from the farm, and Napoleon spreads rumours to make him seem evil and corrupt and that he had secretly sabotaged the animals' efforts to improve the farm. SNOWSHOE: Squealer Squealer. A small white fat porker who serves as Napoleon's right hand pig and minister of propaganda. Squealer manipulates the language to excuse, justify, and extol all of Napoleon's actions. Squealer limits debate by complicating it and he confuses and disorients, making claims that the pigs need the extra luxury they are taking in order to function properly, for example. However, when questions persist, he usually uses the threat of the return of Mr Jones, the former owner of the farm, to justify the pigs' privileges. Squealer uses statistics to convince the animals that life is getting better and better. Most of the animals have only dim memories of life before the revolution; therefore, they are convinced. In the end, he is the first pig to walk on his hind legs. HAIM: Napoleon "A large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way",[5] Napoleon is the main tyrant and villain of Animal Farm; he is based upon Joseph Stalin. He begins to gradually build up his power, using puppies he took from their parents, the dogs Jessie and Bluebell, and which he raises to be vicious dogs, as his secret police. After driving Snowball off the farm, Napoleon usurps full power, using false propaganda from Squealer and threats and intimidation from the dogs to keep the other animals in line. Among other things, he gradually changes the Commandments for his benefit. By the end of the book, Napoleon and his fellow pigs have learned to walk upright and started to behave similarly to the humans against whom they originally revolted. In the first French version of Animal Farm, Napoleon is called César, the French spelling of Caesar,[2] although another translation has him as Napoléon.[6]