What do the animals in animal farm collectively represent?

Answer 1

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

Not animals, bu still characters:

Mr. Pilkington - The Allies (mainly Britain)

Mr. Fredrick - Germany

Mr. Jones - the Tsar

Answer 2

I think that the significance of the seven commandments in Animal Farm is for the pigs to mark their power over the other animals and the fact that without rules the farm will completely fall apart because there will be nothing to lead them. The seven commandments is a big power for the pigs because they can make believe to the other animals whatever they want. At first they wright just things on the seven commandments so that the other animals would follow them. Then little by little they change the seven commandments so that it serves their purpose. When they change them a little the other animals are puzzled because they thought the commandment said something different but then the pigs assure them that it was like that since the beginning. One of the most flagrant example is the last one. One of the commandments said that "two legs bad, four legs bad". At the end when the pigs wanted to walk on two legs, they change the commandment to "two legs good, four legs bad". How they persuaded the other animals that the commandment was like that since the beginning is by taking the simple minded sheep apart from the other animals and making them learn they only song they knew and that no one contested, "two legs bad, four legs good", upside down. They made them learn this song upside down so that the other animals would think it is normal and would not contest it because they knew that the song the sheep sang was true. This example is the most shocking, but at the very beginning we can see that the pigs have the control over the other animals because a little after they wrote the seven commandments they say they need to take all the milk the cows produce and all of the apples too. Squealer explains that the pigs need these two ingredients so that they can use their brain properly. But the reader understands straight away that the pigs only want these two ingredients because they want to eat more and not because they want to develop their brains. I also think that the seven commandments represent the fundamental rules of society. The seven commandments are a sort of laws that every government (in this case the pigs) decide of. I think that in this case the "laws" are the laws of communism, that everybody should respect these laws except the "government" who do whatever they want. The pigs need these commandments to have the power over the other animals. If there were no commandments the pigs could not make little changes, that animals would accept, for their own good. If there were no commandments the pigs would have anything to show their power over the other animals, so they would not be able to use that power over the others. The seven commandments are the perfect example of the failure of communism because of how the pigs can manipulate all the animals (even the ones who understand what is happening because they do not want to be rejected) to do what they want for them.

Answer 3

The animals represent the working class of Russia in the early 1900's.

Answer 4

The 7 comandments in "Animal Farm" represents the basic laws of communism stating certain things that you must follow but the goverment does not seem to think it apllies to them!

Answer 5

White Russians

Answer 6

Germany and England