Napoleon is associated with the communist leader Stalin. He was a corrupt leader who was only interested in fulfilling his needs. Napoleon executed anybody who opposed him under the excuse that they were in league with snowball. Napoleon uses the dogs to represent Russia's military police. He also uses rhetoric by complicating language which works well on the uneducated animals of the farm. When the animals question Napoleons motives in the book he simply replies with tactics, tactics. Napoleon also uses the threat of Jones return if the other animals asked too many questions. After he successfully eliminates Snowball, he gradually increases his personal power and privileges. He uses his trained dogs to exile snowball.
Old Major is the old pig whose visionary dream inspires the animals with their first concept of revolution. He may be compared to Karl Marx, whose ideas and writings eventually led to the Communist Revolution. The farm animals are prepare to meet after Mr. Jones goes to sleep, to hear the words that the old and well-respected pig, Old Major, wants to say to them. The animals gather around as Old Major tells them that he had a dream the previous night and senses that he will not live much longer. Before he dies, he wants to tell the animals what he has observed and learned in his twelve years. Old Major goes on to say that animals in England are cruelly kept in slavery by man, who steals the animals' labour and is "the only creature that consumes without producing". He describes his vision of an England in which animals are free and live in complete harmony and cooperation, free of the tyranny of man and his evil habits. Old Major tells the animals that they must all band together to fight the common enemy, Man, and rise up in rebellion when the opportunity comes. He exhorts them to remain true to their animal ways, and then leads them in a rousing song of revolution, called "Beasts of England". They are stirred into frenzy by Old Major's speech and sing the song five consecutive times, until Mr. Jones stirs and fires a shot into the air to quiet them down. Soon the whole farm falls asleep, as they find out that Mr Jones has shot old major, with his death, Old Major symbolizes the idealistic, often intellectual or abstract vision that leads to a revolution. His death clears the path for other younger figures to seize the revolutionary movement which is sweeping the farm and uses it to propel themselves to position of power. Napoleon, Snowball, and Squealer are cleverer, sneakier, and more aggressive than the other animals, and they soon rise to power as the leaders
The seven commandments were made to make sure the animals never like humans. With one phrase that the sheep's always sang “four legs good”, “two legs bad” this soon changed to “four legs good” two legs better” this is when the pigs started to walk on there back legs. The adapted the position of there former master Mr Jones. The pigs are now much like their human masters. In the book Animal Farm showed how motivated humans are by greed.
