Napoleon: He was a greedy pig in power that raised an army of dogs for himself and later, he became a president. He incited the revolution and promised utopia for the animals but later on, he became a dictator that ruled on every animal and created the world for only him and his surroundings.
Snowball: He was a boar with smartness that used to be a leader of the animals. He insisted on his opinions and promoted his plan with persuasive ability. During the battle between human and animals, he showed self-sacrifice but later he got expelled by Napoleon.
Squealer: He was a loyal servant to Napoleon by doing everything that Napoleon told him to do. When something happened, he used his talking skills and used it seductively. He was a selfish and most cunning animal in the story.
Mr. Jones: He used to be in charged of the farm, however, he got kicked out by the animals because of the harsh way of how he treated the animals.
Boxer: He was a male horse that was full of effort and loyalty. As a strongest animal throughout other animals, he performed meritorious deeds on construing the windmill. However, later because of sly Squealer and Napoleon he was sent to slaughterhouse.
Major: He was the majestic-looking pig and the first one to suggest the revolution. His plan was to establish ideal society of true freedom and equality by the power of the animals. Before his death, he gathered the animals to beat off the humans and left a song of animals’ revolution.
Benjamin: He was a pessimistic goat that wasn’t interested about the revolution at all. He observed the overall events in the story and even if he knew that the pigs changed the seven commandments, he didn’t tell anybody.
A Flock of Sheep: They were the foolish group controlled by Napoleon and spread & shouted the wrong will of him. It was a group with ignorance and dumbness that followed everything for their leader.
Snowball: He was a boar with smartness that used to be a leader of the animals. He insisted on his opinions and promoted his plan with persuasive ability. During the battle between human and animals, he showed self-sacrifice but later he got expelled by Napoleon.
Squealer: He was a loyal servant to Napoleon by doing everything that Napoleon told him to do. When something happened, he used his talking skills and used it seductively. He was a selfish and most cunning animal in the story.
Mr. Jones: He used to be in charged of the farm, however, he got kicked out by the animals because of the harsh way of how he treated the animals.
Boxer: He was a male horse that was full of effort and loyalty. As a strongest animal throughout other animals, he performed meritorious deeds on construing the windmill. However, later because of sly Squealer and Napoleon he was sent to slaughterhouse.
Major: He was the majestic-looking pig and the first one to suggest the revolution. His plan was to establish ideal society of true freedom and equality by the power of the animals. Before his death, he gathered the animals to beat off the humans and left a song of animals’ revolution.
Benjamin: He was a pessimistic goat that wasn’t interested about the revolution at all. He observed the overall events in the story and even if he knew that the pigs changed the seven commandments, he didn’t tell anybody.
A Flock of Sheep: They were the foolish group controlled by Napoleon and spread & shouted the wrong will of him. It was a group with ignorance and dumbness that followed everything for their leader.
Throughout all the characters in Animal Farm, I actually didn't like all the characters because they all the symbols of nasty people except Boxer, Benjamin, Snowball, and Major. Among all the ok characters, they still had some problems, for example, Boxer was too foolish. Benjamin ignored the situation of the animals. Snowball worked hard for the animals however, he had weak leadership than Napoleon. Major, the first one to suggest revolution was just an idealist but didn't give any details for the revolution and didn't think about the reality he would face later. Even if his suggestion was convincing, he should have thought for the future disaster too, if he was the truest wise leader among the animals.
The universal human experience that they revealed was the symbol of people's mind full of greediness, foolishness, and unreality. The utopia that they wanted to construct was later changed to dystopia, which happened a lot in this world. No perfection, no paradise existed in this world.
2 comments:
I like this post, because you were honest about your opinions to the characters. Also, the description of each charcaters were thoughtful and thorough. Personally, I liked Napoleon out of all the characters in the book. It was because I admired his strong leadership, not the bloddiness or the cruelness he showed throughout the book. I wanted to have that kind of strong leadership in me. By the way, nice post!
Strong leadership is no good without good morales and good intentions.
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