Snowball And Napoleon Disagreements Quotes

At this point, pigs have gained more power: before, they were “overseers”, but now they decide “all matters of agricultural policy”. While these decisions have yet to be ratified by other animals, Orwell proposes that pigs slowly but steadily gain ground. But with the “bitter weather” that arrives this winter, the “bitter” debates between Snowball and Napoleon are also multiplying. In fact, “debate” is hardly the right term, since only Snowball tries to use rhetoric and logic to influence other animals – Napoleon uses a series of what Squealer would later call “tactics” to get his will across. For example, during the week, Napoleon spends time training the sheep to get into their “four good legs, two bad legs” which, in the “decisive moments” in Snowball`s speeches, collapse; Capturing encounters with his own ignorant followers is here the strategy calculated by Napoleon…