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A list of all the characters in Animal Farm. Animal Farm characters include: Napoleon, Snowball, Boxer, Squealer, Old Major, Mr. Pilkington, Benjamin.
Read the full book summary, an in-depth character analysis of Snowball, and explanations of important quotes from Animal Farm.
A short summary of George Orwell's Animal Farm. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Animal Farm.
Why do the animals confess to being traitors? Why does Napoleon blame Snowball for everything that goes wrong on the farm? How is the windmill destroyed? Why does Napoleon change the Seven Commandments? What does Boxer’s death represent? How does Squealer manipulate the animals so the pigs can better control them?
As a parallel for Leon Trotsky, Snowball emerges as a fervent ideologue who throws himself heart and soul into the attempt to spread Animalism worldwide and to improve Animal Farm’s infrastructure. His idealism, however, leads to his downfall.
Why do the animals confess to being traitors? Why does Napoleon blame Snowball for everything that goes wrong on the farm? How is the windmill destroyed? Why does Napoleon change the Seven Commandments? What does Boxer’s death represent? How does Squealer manipulate the animals so the pigs can better control them?
In Animal Farm, the pigs gradually twist and distort a rhetoric of socialist revolution to justify their behavior and to keep the other animals in the dark. The animals heartily embrace Major’s visionary ideal of socialism, but after Major dies, the pigs gradually twist the meaning of his words.
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Symbols are objects, characters, figures, and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts. Animal Farm. Animal Farm, known at the beginning and the end of the novel as the Manor Farm, symbolizes Russia and the Soviet Union under Communist Party rule.
The animals, as a group, are the protagonists of Animal Farm. Their goal is to achieve the vision set out by Old Major: equality and freedom for all animals. This goal brings them into conflict with the reality of political power. First they must confront power by rebelling against Mr. Jones.