MAJOR SYMBOLS IN ANIMAL FARM

SYMBOL PARALLEL IN RUSSIAN

REVOLUTION

1. Jones Tsar Nicholas II

2. Old Major Karl Marx & Lenin
3. Snowball Leon Trotsky
4. Napoleon Josef Stalin
5. Squealer Pravda Propagandist (newspaper)
6. Moses Religious figure (Preacher)
7. Sugar Candy (Heaven) Russian Orthodox Church
Mountain
(utopia)
8. Boxer Proletariat—working class
9. “Beasts of England” Russian National Anthem
10. The Farmhouse Kremlin
11. The pigs Communist Party/ Elite/ Bolsheviks
12. The dogs Secret police—KGB
13. Seven Communist Manifesto
Commandments

14. Mollie Status Quo/ Defector/ People who want

material wealth (Traitor)

15. Benjamin Intellectual—they know it won’t work,

but they don’t do anything about it
16. The Battle of Russian Civil War
Cowshed
17. Animals storm the Bloody Sunday
house
18. Battle of the Hitler invasion
Windmill
19. Animalism Communism
20. Mr. Frederick Hitler
21. Animal’s flag Russian’s flag, which bears a hammer
and a sickle
22. Birds that fly with The media, such as ComIntern, are
Animalism message used to spread communism throughout
Europe
23. Mr. Pilkington England/U.S.
24. Demonstrations The USSR has a yearly May Day
celebration, which includes a parade
that flexes its military might

NAME SYMBOLISM IN ANIMAL FARM

NAME SYMBOL
1. Boxer Heavy lifter or fighter (hard worker)
2. Clover Pure, innocent (motherly)
3. Moses Biblical
4. Napoleon Powerful
5. Mr. Jones Common name for “man”
6. Snowball Q: Would he have been corrupt eventually?
Get one windmill, need another…it eventually
would have “snowballed”