What are the allegories of the characters of Animal Farm?

Answer 1

From Shmoop Literature on Symbols and Allegory in Animal Farm

http://www.shmoop.com/literary-device/literature/george-orwell/animal-farm/symbols-imagery-allegory.html

So the "canonical interpretation" of Animal Farm is that it is a parable of the Russian Revolution of the twentieth century. Orwell created each animal to represent either a person or a class of people, and many of the events (e.g., the windmill stuff) parallel actual events in history. The following are generally accepted notions:

Answer 2

im not sure for sure but a allegory is a short story with a moral which often uses animals to represent characters eg Animal farm is a allegory about the Russian Revolution Napoleon represents Stalin Snowball represents Trotsky Please let me know if that makes any sense

Answer 3

The story of Animal Farm is an allegory of the events in Russia after the downfall of Tsar Nicholas III (1910's to 1940's). The characters and events in the story all represent those during this time. Major represents Karl Marx, Animalism is similar to communism, Napoleon represents Stalin, Snowball represents Trotsky, Squealer symbolises Propaganda, Mr Jones represents the Tsar when he was in power and other things.

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Answer 4

Answer to your question:

Old Major - Karl Marx

Napolean - Joseph Stalin

Snowball - Leon Trotsky

Squealer - Soviet propaganda newspaper Pravda

Boxer - exploited hard workers

The Sheep - the easily led masses

The Dogs - the secret police

The Hens - the kulaks (people who didn't coorperate)

Moses - the Russian Orthodox Church

Benjamin - the Jews and others, who did not like the change any more than before and were aware of corruption, but did not act, because they saw that corruption and cruelty would always happen

The Cat - The lazy people who go along with Communism, because it means they get fed, without having to work

Mollie - The white Russians who were treated well under the Tsar, so preferred it before the rebellion

Clover - The workers' wives

Mr. Pilkington - The Allies (mainly Britain)

Mr. Fredrick - Germany

Mr. Jones - the Tsar

Answer 5

Animal Farm represents many of the people that helped in the rise of communism. For example, Old Major represents Karl Marx.

Answer 6

it is an allegory for the excesses of Stalinism in the Soviet Union.

Answer 7

The book Animal Farm is an allegory for the Russian Revolution.

Answer 8

Animal Farm is George Orwell's 1945 book on the soviet revolution. The main storyline of the book follows animals that act out events from the communist revolution. The pigs are the leaders of the revolution sutch as Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin. The farmer and his friends and hounds are the tsarist regime. The non-pig animals are the russian people. The book matches the major events of the USSR's history. the pig Napoleon is Stalin who wants nationalised communism and force, in the book communism is the idea of the farm run by animals. Whille Snowball the pig is Trotsky, who wants global communism and wants to export help to other farms and to have global revolutions. Like in real life the stalin pig brainwashes a generation of the youth, in the story he steals puppies and brainwashes them, and he orders the killing of the trotsky pig as to gain power. As the story goes on the animals are forced to work harder and harder and are given promises that never come true. The end shows the pigs becoming people as to match the farmer from the begining and how the communist revolution of russia that formed the USSR never made a utopia it created worse lives for its people and just changed the leadership.