Animal farm characters and parallels

Question 1

Who does Snowball represent?

Answer 1

Trotsky

Question 2

Who does Napoleon represent?

Answer 2

Stalin

Question 3

Who does Mr Jones represent?

Answer 3

Tsar Nicholas II

Question 4

Who does Old Major represent?

Answer 4

Marx and Lenin

Question 5

Who does Boxer represent?

Answer 5

The working classes (proletariat)

Question 6

Who do the hens represent?

Answer 6

The peasants

Question 7

Who do the sheep represent?

Answer 7

the masses who followed without questioning

Question 8

Who does Mollie represent?

Answer 8

Upper class Russians who were happy under Tsar Nicholas II

Question 9

What does Squealer represent?

Answer 9

propaganda

Question 10

What does Moses represent?

Answer 10

religion

Question 11

What do the dogs represent?

Answer 11

Stalin’s secret police

Question 12

What does the cat represent?

Answer 12

Self-interest and hypocrisy

Question 13

Who does Mr Pilkington represent?

Answer 13

Churchill

Question 14

Who does Mr Frederick represent?

Answer 14

Hitler

Question 15

Who does Benjamin represent?

Answer 15

Intellectuals/ people who were aware of the corruption but did nothing to stop it.

Question 16

Who does Mr Whymper represent?

Answer 16

People who did business with communist Russia

Question 17

What does the hoof and horn on the flag represent?

Answer 17

hammer and sickle

Question 18

What does the expulsion of Jones represent?

Answer 18

Deposition of Tsar Nicholas ll

Question 19

What does the Battle of the Cowshed represent?

Answer 19

Allied intervention of Soviet Russia in 1941

Question 20

What does the building of the windmill represent?

Answer 20

Five Year Plan

Question 21

What do the starving animals represent?

Answer 21

Ukrainian famine of the 1930’s