Animal Character Chart
Animal
Name/
Illustratio
n
Old Major
Direct Quote/Page
Characteris
tic
Language
use
Historical
Reference
“Now, comrades, what is
the nature of this life of
ours?”
Intelligent,
experience
d, has
leadership
Lenin?
Marx?
Jones
“too drunk to remember
to shut the popholes”
(p25)
“had fallen on evil days”
(p38)
Often uses
the word
“comrades”
in the
beginning of
the
sentence.
Human
language
Snowball
Napoleon
Boxer
Human,
takes
advantage
of the
animals,
has debts,
lazy, drunk
“Snowball was a more
Intelligent,
vicious pig than Napoleon, had
quicker in speech and
disputes
more inventive but was
with
not considered to have the Napoleon,
same depth of character”
runs away
(p35)
due to the
dogs, had
plans with
windmill
“Napoleon was a large,
Intelligent,
rather fierce-looking
witty, has
Berkshire boar… not much leadership,
of a talker, but with a
clever,
reputation for getting his
parallels
own way.” (p35)
Mr. Jones,
“better at canvassing
(p68),
support for himself in
hates
between times” (p63)
Snowball
“admiration of
everybody…seemed more
like three horses than one”
“tremendous muscles
(p46)
“could not read beyond
the letter D” (p50)
“I had no intention of
Diligent,
hard
working,
muscular(?
), a horse,
not so
intelligent,
killed
Tsar
Nicholas
II
Similar to
Trotsky
Old Major,
using
“comrades”
in the
beginning of
the sentence
Similar to
Stalin
Old Major,
using
“comrades”
in the
beginning of
the sentence
“I will work Working
harder”(p47 class
) was his
motto.
Answer to
every
setbacks
“Napoleon is
Moses
squealer
Dogs
-bluebell
-Jesse
& their
offspring
Benjamin
Mollie
doing that… I have no wish
to take life, not even
human life,” repeated
Boxer, and his eyes were
full of tears (p59)
“Moses, who was Mr.
Jones’s especial pet, was a
spy and a tale-bearer, but
he was also a clever
talker.”(p37)
“…claimed to know the
existence of a mysterious
country called Sugarcandy
Mountain”
“animals hated Moses”
(p37)
“squealer spoke so
persuasively…they
accepted his explanation
without further questions”
(p72)
“brilliant talker…
somehow very
persuasive” (p36)
“nine enormous dogs
wearing brass-studded
collars” (p67)
“Though not yet fullgrown, they were huge
dogs, and as fierce-looking
as wolves” (p68)
“waved their tails” at
Napoleon (p68)
“expressed no opinion”
“he did his work in the
same slow obstinate way
as he had done in Jone’s
time”
“cryptic answer”
(p47)
Jones, weak always
mentality,
right!”
“refused to learn any but
the six letters which spelt
her own name” (p50)
“she was found hiding in
her stall with her head
buried among the hay in
the manger.” (p59)
Selfish,
coward,
troublesom
e, lazy,
greedy,
likes
ribbons,
Loyal to
“men”, the
enemy of
animals,
lazy
No language
shown of
Moses
Spy of the
Tsar
Loyal to
Napoleon,
persuasive,
sly,
deceitful,
cunning
“Tactics
comrades,
tactics!”
(p72) often
uses the
word
“comrade”
The press
controlled
by Stalin
Offspring:
Tamed
from
Napoleon,
loyal to
Napoleon,
aggressive,
large size
growling
Offspring:
Cossacks?
Military?
Careless,
voiceless,
slow,
unclear,
unchanging
“Donkeys
live a long
time. None
of you has
ever seen a
dead
donkey” ->
speaks in a
cryptic way
Neutral
guy in the
revolution
Petit
bourgeois
ie that
left Russia
a few
years
after the
Muriel
“she was late for work
every morning and
excused herself by saying
that she had overslept and
she complained of
mysterious pains,
although her appetite was
excellent.”
“read somewhat better
than dogs”(p49) (a goat)
Pigeons
Cat
Clover
Sheep
Mr.
Frederick
“vanish for hours then
reappear at meal times”
(p47)
“made excellent excuses”
“Their most faithful
disciples were the two
carthorses, Boxer and
Clover” (p37)
“had great difficulty in
thinking anything out for
themselves, but having
once accepted the pigs as
their teachers, athey
absorbed everything that
they were told and passed
it on to the other animals
by simple arguments. =”
(p37)
“great liking for this
maxim”
“Animal Hero, Second
Class” for the sheep that
died (p60)
“tough, shrewd man,
perpetually involved in
lawsuits and with a name
for driving hard bargains”
(p55)
Mr.
“easy-going gentleman
Pilkington farmer who spent most of
his time fishing or hunting
according to the season”
(p54)
sugar
Revolutio
n
-
-
Observing, loyal,
messangers
Sneaky, not hard
working
-
Wise,
experience
d, loyal to
the pigs,
had
difficulty
thinking
out for
himself,
cannot
remember
the
commandm
ents
Not very
intelligent,
“Mollie!
Look at me
in the face.
Do you give
me your
word of
honor that
that man
was not
stroking
your nose”
(p62)
-
Said “Four
Legs good,
two legs
bad!” over
repetitively
(p63)
-
-
-
English/A
merican
capitalist
Owner of
the farm
Pinchfield
Owner of
Foxwood
-
Adolf
Hitler
Minimus
P70
Another pig… who had a remarkable gift for composing songs and poems,
sat on the front of the raised platform, with the nine young dogs facing a
semicircle round them”
-
milk
timber
white paint
ribbons
windmill
sugar candy mountains
eggs
farms