Characters Flashcards
(11 cards)
Napoleon 🐷
Represents: Joseph Stalin
He becomes the farm’s dictator.
Uses propaganda, fear, and violence to maintain control.
Snowball 🐷
Represents: Leon Trotsky
Intelligent and passionate, but exiled by Napoleon.
Promotes innovation and education.
Squealer 🐷
Represents: Soviet propaganda/media
Twists the truth to control how the animals think.
Justifies Napoleon’s actions.
Boxer 🐴
Represents: Working class / Proletariat
Hardworking, loyal, but naive.
His mottos are “I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right.”
Old Major 🐖
Represents: Karl Marx / Vladimir Lenin
Inspires the revolution with the idea of animal equality (“Animalism”).
Clover 🐴
Represents: Caring but powerless citizens
Questions things but lacks the confidence to speak out.
Benjamin 🫏
Represents: Skeptics / intellectuals who stayed quiet
Wise and cynical.
Sees what’s happening but doesn’t act.
Mollie 🐴
Represents: Upper classes / Bourgeoisie
Leaves the farm when luxuries are taken away.
Mr. Jones 👨🌾
Represents: Tsar Nicholas II
Neglectful farmer overthrown in the revolution.
Dogs 🐕
Represent: Stalin’s secret police (KGB)
Trained by Napoleon to enforce his rule through fear.
Mr. Pilkington & Mr. Frederick
Represent: Capitalist governments (UK/USA and Nazi Germany)
Compete and cooperate with Napoleon for their own benefit.