Character List

• Mr. Jones: Orwell's chief (villain)



• Old Major: first major character



• Moses: most intriguing character..described as "especial pet" because he doesn't work. Only character who doesn't listen to Old Major's speech.



• Snowball: Pig similiar to Napoleon, in the early stages. Wanted a leadership posotion in the "new" economic and political system.



• Napoleon: chief villain. He is a pig and the really central character on the farm.



• Boxer: the name is clevery used. Represent the proletariat.



• Squealer: an intriguing character. described as manipulator and persuader.



• Mollie: Minor character, but she represents something important. Animal who is more opposed to the new government.



• Benjamin: An elderly donkey, most elusive and intriguing characters. Described as rather unchanged since the rebelion.


• Muriel: a goat reads comandments for clover. he represents minority of working class people.


• Frederick: neighbor of Animal Farm. becomes an enemy.


• Pilkington: another neighbor


• Pigs: surround and support Napoleon. symbolize communist party loyalists and the friends of Stalin.


• Rats: represent opposition to the Bolsheciks.included in the rebellion.


• Dogs: represent the KGB bodyguards of Stalin. arch-defenders


• Pigeons: symbolize Soviet propaganda to other countries not Russia.