... ideology, particularly concentrating on children. The children were the future of Stalin's plans for Russia. The government controlled every aspect of their lives, schools were warped and after school youth movements were introduced to influence the youth. In the book Napoleon concentrates his efforts on the puppies' education. Rather than expose them to the wider group, they are kept in isolation and given their own instruction. It becomes clear that this is not education but rather indoctrination (to brainwash someone into believing a particular opinion). The puppies emerge later as Napoleons private army and take the farm by force by means of violence. The dogs represented Stalin's secret police that chased and killed Trotsky in the revolution. George Orwell uses his novel to illustrate the corruptive nature of absolute power, and the hold it is allowed to gain through the use of propaganda, fear and the distortion of language. The ...

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