Animal Farm Characters

Invisible ArchitectNapoleon doesn’t play much of a role in the initial rebellion, which happens largely by chance. Yet he’s introduced, along with Snowball, as being one of the most int...

Snowball vs. NapoleonWe are first introduced to Snowball after the pigs take charge of spreading Old Major’s message on the farm. We learn, “Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napol...

In many ways, Squealer’s name says it all. Squealer is an extremely clever pig, “a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to s...

When Napoleon seizes the nine dogs for himself, it's one of the early signs of his corrupt intentions. He takes them from their parents, Jessie and Bluebell, shortly after they are born, “say...

Boxer is the strongest and probably the most admired animal on the farm. He is first introduced as “an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put...

Mollie is painted as a fairly stupid, vain, and materialistic horse. In the very beginning, she comes late to Old Major’s speech, and she “took a place near the front and began flirting...

Benjamin is a wise donkey, “the oldest animal on the farm and the worst tempered. He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark” (1.3). For all his bad temper, B...

In the beginning of Animal Farm, we learn that “old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals”...

Clover is Boxer’s companion, a “stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal” (1.3). She is a good-natured horse, just as loyal a...

Moses the Raven is a paradox to many of the other animals. When the pigs first begin to educate the other animals about Animalism, their hardest struggle is to “counteract the lies put about...

Animal Farm opens with the line, “Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes” (1.1). The image we get of Mr. Jones...

What’s the point of the three dogs? To have the nine puppies. Well, that’s the point of two of them, anyway. Interestingly, the dogs, who have teeth and strength and all that good stuff...

When a divide begins to open up between Napoleon and Snowball, it is noted that Napoleon has some trouble connecting with the crowd with his speeches, but he is “especially successful with th...

Mr. Pilkington is the owner of Foxwood, one of the neighbors to Animal Farm. The narrator tells us that he is “an easy-going gentleman farmer who spent most of his time in fishing or hunting...

Mr. Frederick owns Pinchfield, one of the neighboring farms to Animal Farm. From the start, he is described as “a tough, shrewd man, perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for drivi...

Mr. Whymper’s name is one of many barbs concealed in the text of Orwell’s novel. Whymper acts as “an intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside world” (6.7), and he is...