Napoleon (Animal Farm) Napoleon (Animal Farm) Our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, Father of All Animals, Terror of Mankind, Protector of the Sheep-fold, or Ducklings' Friend is a fictional character and the main antagonist in George Orwell's "Animal Farm". He is described as "a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar" who is "not much of a talker" and has "a reputation for getting his own way". While he is at first a common farm pig, he exiles Snowball, another pig, who is his rival for power, and then takes advantage of the animals' uprising against their masters to eventually become the tyrannical "President" of Animal Farm,
Anthems in Animal Farm to be replaced and suppressed. The development corresponds to the historical events of 1943, when Joseph Stalin had "The Internationale", previously the anthem of the Soviet Union, replaced with a new, more patriotic national anthem. However, while "Beasts of England" was outlawed in the novel, "The Internationale" was not banned by the Soviet Union at any time and remained as the anthem of the Communist Party. "Beasts of England", the original anthem of the "Animal Farm" corresponds to the famous socialist anthem, "The Internationale", but also alludes to Shelley's "Men of England". In the book, the pig Old Major explains