setting and point of novel

Question 1

name the characters and their historical figures

napoleon=
snowball=
old major=
squealer=
moses=
clover=
boxer=
mollie=
mr jones=
pilkington=
frederik=
whymper=

Answer 1

Old Major = Karl Marx, with a little bit of Vladimir Lenin thrown in
Snowball = Leon Trotsky
Napoleon = Josef Stalin, with a big fat allusion to, uh, Napoleon. (Bonaparte.)
Squealer = Propaganda in general; also possibly Vyacheslav Molotov in particular.
Moses = the Russian Orthodox Church
Boxer = Russian laborers and workers
Clover = Russian laborers and workers, of the female kind
Mollie = the bourgeoisie
Benjamin = possibly Orwell; possibly intellectuals in general
Mr. and Mrs. Jones = Tsar Nicholas II and his family; also capitalists in general
Mr. Pilkington = the U.S. and U.K.
Mr. Frederick = Hitler
Mr. Whymper = gullible westerners and intellectuals