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Animal Farm (Characters (Pigs (Snowball (Incredibly smart. A "big…

- - - - Incredibly smart. A "big picture" thinker. Not always practical. Very ideological - Trotsky
    - - Smart, but not as good of a public speaker as Snowball. Very practically minded. - Stalin
    - - Propaganda man for Napoleon. He is quite convincing, and the sheep buy his lies every time. - Pravda/ Molotov
    - - State sponsored art
  - - - The first owner. He's lazy and ineffective. Tsar Nicholas II
    - - Known to be organised, hard working, shrewd and a little cruel
        He also tricks Napoleon
    - - Represents the West
  - - - Wealthy, fashion obsessed
    - - Female working class
    - - Working Class, Male
  - - - Tells animals of Sugar Candy Mountain
        
        The Church
    - - Farmers
  - - - Apathetic, smart, Boxer is his best friend
        
        intellectuals, the educated
- - - - It is no surprise the school for young pigs is attached to the seat of power. Children of the pigs will not work like the others
      - The fact that the most corrupt animals are all pigs could represent the idea that only people of a certain class will have the opportunity to be involved in leadership
  - - - Slogans are used to trick the sheep
        
        Slightly longer slogans are used to trick the smarter animals
        
        "Surely, you do not want Jones to return"
        
        Terminology is used to persuade and manipulate the animals
        
        Pigs work very hard, but not physically. We are "brain-workers"
        
        Napoleon didn't lie during the meeting. He was using "tactics"
        
        Of course the pigs are working hard at the end. Somebody needs to write "reports", "files", "minutes" and "memoranda"
        
        Boxer tricks himself with his own slogans
  - - - "Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, ad fro pig to an again: but already it was impossible to say which was which.
        
        The final paragraph uses imagery to blur the distinction between pig and man. This blurring is both a moral one as well and visual one. , and it confirms that the animals will have worse lives under their rulers.
- - - - Snowball eats them too
    - - Only pigs present ideas
  - - - Snowball and the other animals believe this as well
      - The pigs do end up copying human behaviour. Perhaps this is a result of corruption, but it could equally be seen as a cause.
- - - - He also doesn't believe that people in power can actually make changes. He is proven wrong.