A | B |
Mollie | represents materialism and vain nobles who ran |
Squealer | represents propaganda |
Snowball | represents Stalin's rival, Trotsky |
Old Major | represents Marx |
Jones | represents Czar Nicholas II |
Moses | represents the Russian Orthodox Church |
Dogs | represents the KGB (secret police) |
Boxer | represents the working class |
Benjamin | represents the cynics or skeptics |
Sheep | represents the masses of people |
Animalism | represents Communism |
England | literal setting of Animal Farm |
Russia | symbolic setting of Animal Farm |
Satire | presenting a serious issue in a ridiculous/humorous way |
Allegory | story that can be read on more than one level |
Propaganda | information spreak for the purpose of promoting ideas or a cause |