Snowball Flashcards
“vivacious”, “quicker in speech”, “more inventive”
More lively personality
Role
Represents Leon Trotsky- His name as Snowball presents him as cute and harmless already revealing to the reader that He is not very fit for leadership
set up “animal committees”
Sought to engage each group of animals- embodying the comradeship of animalism through social schemes unlike napoleon who was only interested in how the animals could make his own life better
“he was indefatigable at this”- at the committees
Snowball tirelessly put all his efforts into building the early animalist farm- shows a leader who is committed
“Wild Comrades’ re-education committee”
he cares about ALL animals even the rats and rabbits who were widely rejected- shows he was deeply connected to the idea of communism and even hints at what society could be with leaders like him
“On the whole, these projects were a failure”
BLUNT SENTENCE- Orwell makes it clear that although an intentional leader, Snowball had little results to show for all his hopes for the farm and he was overly ambitious- Mirrors Trotsky’s largely failed efforts to educate Russian lower classes
Satire with the cat who claimed that all animals were comrades so sparrows could come to perch on her paw
Comic criticisim of the utopic and unrealistic communist idea that no one is corrupt or would want to use communism for their own personal gain
was “in charge of defensive operations” during the battle of the cowshed
Leader who is heavily involved in the farm
“he himself dashed straight for Jones” and was shot
Leader who is prepared to risk his life for his people
“The only good human is a dead one”
Tremendous passion for animalism and hate for humans but still, not much to show for all his feelings.
“full of plans for innovations and improvements”
REPRESENTATION of Stalin’s plans to industrialize Russia which barely materialised
“uttering little whimpers of excitement” with chalk between his trotter whilst planning for the windmill
Orwell uses COMIC IMAGERY to slightly mock and criticise Trotsky’s overly ambitious nature as a leader who produced little concrete results for all his plans.
