Submitted by Prize_Effort_4478 t3_zraku3 in books
1.Do you think snowball really came back to Animal Farm to harass other animals after being expelled by Napoleon?
2.About those executed animals. Do you think the guilt they confessed are real?
For 1st question, I think snowball disappeared for good and never came back to Animal Farm to conspire with other animals.
For 2nd question, I think the author never suggested in the book that these executed animals really did those crimes or their confessions are made under duress.
My theory is that, Napoleon persuade those animals in private to admit their crimes honestly and they would be spared(although this part was not mentioned in the book). But at the meeting, when these animals confessed, Napoleon went back his words and executed all the guilty animals, and made the examples for other animals not to overthrow Napoleon's regime.
wjbc t1_j12k8o6 wrote
Well, Snowball is based on Leon Trotsky, who was exiled from the U.S.S.R. and later assassinated in Mexico City by a Soviet agent. So no, I don't think he is to blame for anything that happens later. I think he was likely killed off screen.
The trial and execution of animals is based on Moscow show trials instigated by Stalin and directed against "Trotskyists." The defendants were widely thought to have confessed under duress, particularly when one defendant repudiated his confession and then changed his mind the next day after suffering a dislocated shoulder and other physical trauma.
So yes, Napoleon is a liar. He's based on Stalin.