The Animal Farm

The Snowball

Snowball is the animal most clearly in tune with the thinking of the old Major, and is dedicated to improving the animals of intellectual, moral and physical ways. He brings literacy to the farm so that the animals can better understand the principles of Animalism reading the Seven Commandments painting on the wall of the barn.

The Napoleon

While Jones’ tyranny can be a little relieved due to the fact that he is a drunk obtuse, Napoleon can only be attributed to their blatant lust for power. The first description of Napoleon presents him as a boar “fierce-looking” “with a reputation for getting his own way.” Throughout the novel, the method of “make your own way” Napoleon involves a combination of propaganda and terror that none of the animals can resist.

The Moses

With his tales of “promised land” for all the animals retire after death, Moses is “religious” figure of the novel. Like its biblical counterpart, Moses offers its listeners descriptions of a place – Sugarcandy Mountain – where they can live free from oppression and hunger. Earlier, pigs find it tiring, because they want the animals to believe that Animal Farm is a paradise and fear that the animals will be asked by Moses tales to find a better place.

The Mollie

Unlike the boxer, who always thinks of others, Mollie is a shallow materialist who does not care about the struggles of their animal companions. His first appearance in the novel suggests her personality when she enters the meeting at the last moment, chewing sugar and sitting in front so that others will be able to admire the red ribbons that she uses in her mane.

The Jones

As George III to the American colonists or Czar Nicholas II to the Russian revolutionaries, Jones is the embodiment of tyranny against which the rebel animals – and rightly so. An inept and sloppy drunk farmer Jones cares little for the Manor Farm and the animals that live there. first paragraph of the novel describes Jones forgetting (drunk) to close the pop holes for the henhouse, but remembering to draw up a glass of beer before “heavy” off to a sleep drunkenness.