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White boar is the inspiration that fuels the Rebellion in the book. He is
12 years old. According to one interpretation, he could be based upon both
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط],
founder of modern
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]and the base for
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط], (in that he describes the ideal society the
animals could create if the humans are overthrown) and
Vladimir
Lenin (in that his skull is put on revered public display, as was
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]). However, according to
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]: "the persons of
Lenin and Trotsky are combined into one [i.e., Snowball], or, it might even be
[...] to say, there is no Lenin at all."
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]"A large, rather fierce-looking
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much
of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way",
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]Napoleon is the main tyrant and villain of
Animal Farm; he is based upon
Joseph
Stalin. He begins to gradually build up his power, using puppies he took
from their parents, the dogs Jessie and Bluebell, and which he raises to be
vicious dogs, as his
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]. After driving Snowball off the farm,
Napoleon usurps full power, using false propaganda from Squealer and threats
and intimidation from the dogs to keep the other animals in line. Among other
things, he gradually changes the Commandments for his benefit. By the end of
the book, Napoleon and his fellow pigs have learned to walk upright and started
to behave similarly to the humans against whom they originally revolted.
In the first French version of
Animal Farm,
Napoleon is called
César,
the French spelling of
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط],
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]although another translation has him as
Napoléon.
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]Napoleon's rival and original head of the
farm after Jones' overthrow. He is probably an allusion to
Leon
Trotsky, although given Orwell's opinion of Trotsky he could be interpreted
as representing the
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]. He wins over most animals and gains their trust
by leading a very successful first harvest, but is driven out of the farm by
Napoleon. Snowball genuinely works for the good of the farm and the animals and
devises plans to help the animals achieve their vision of an
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]utopia, but Napoleon and his dogs chase him from the farm, and Napoleon spreads
rumours to make him seem evil and corrupt and that he had secretly sabotaged
the animals' efforts to improve the farm.
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]A small white fat porker who serves as
Napoleon's right hand pig and minister of propaganda. Squealer manipulates the
language to excuse, justify, and extol all of Napoleon's actions. Squealer
limits debate by complicating it and he confuses and disorients, making claims
that the pigs need the extra luxury they are taking in order to function
properly, for example. However, when questions persist, he usually uses the
threat of the return of Mr Jones, the former owner of the farm, to justify the
pigs' privileges. Squealer uses statistics to convince the animals that life is
getting better and better. Most of the animals have only dim memories of life
before the revolution; therefore, they are convinced. In the end, he is the first
pig to walk on his hind legs.
Minimus
A poetic pig who writes the second and third
national anthems of
Animal Farm after the singing of "Beasts of
England" is banned.
The Piglets
Hinted to be the children of Napoleon (albeit
not truly noted in the novel) and are the first generation of animals actually
subjugated to his idea of animal inequality.
The young pigs
Four pigs who complain about Napoleon's
takeover of the farm but are quickly silenced and later executed.
Pinkeye
A minor pig who is mentioned only once; he is
the pig that tastes Napoleon's food to make sure it is not poisoned, in
response to rumours about an assassination attempt on Napoleon.
Humans[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]The former owner of the farm, Jones is a very
heavy drinker and the animals revolt against him after he drinks so much that
he does not feed or take care of them. The attempt by Jones and his farmhands
to recapture the farm is foiled in the Battle
of the Cowshed.
Frederick
The tough owner of Pinchfield, a well-kept
neighboring farm, an allusion to
Adolf
Hitler and Germany.
He buys wood from the animals for forged money and later attacks them,
destroying the windmill but being finally beaten in the resulting Battle of the Windmill.
There are stories of him mistreating his own animals, such as throwing dogs
into a furnace. Pinchfield is noted as being smaller than Pilkington's Foxwood
farm but more efficiently run, and Frederick
briefly enters into an "alliance" with Napoleon by offering to buy
wood from him but then betrays the deal and mounts a bloody invasion of Animal
Farm.
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]The easy-going but crafty owner of Foxwood, a
neighbouring farm overgrown with weeds, as described in the book. At the end of
the game, both Napoleon and Pilkington draw the Ace of Spades and then begin
fighting loudly. Foxwood is described as being much larger than Pinchfield, but
not as efficiently run.
Mr. Whymper
A man hired by Napoleon for the public
relations of Animal Farm to human society. Whymper is used as a go-between to
trade with human society for things the animals can't produce on their own: at
first this is a legitimate need because the animals can't manufacture their own
windmill components, but eventually Whymper is used to procure luxuries like
alcohol for the pigs.
Other animalsMuriel
A wise old goat who is friends with all of
the animals on the farm. She, like Benjamin and Snowball, is one of the few
animals on the farm who can read (with some difficulty as she has to spell the
words out first) and helps Clover discover that the Seven Commandments have
been continually changed.
The Puppies
Offspring of Jessie and Bluebell, taken away
from them by Napoleon at birth and reared by Napoleon to be his security force.
These dogs are trained to be vicious, going so far as to rip many of the
animals to shreds including the four young pigs, a sheep and various hens. They
attempt to do the same to Boxer, who halts one of the puppies under his hoof.
The puppy begs for mercy and through Napoleon's orders, Boxer sets the puppy
free.
Moses the Raven
An old bird that occasionally goes to the
farm with tales of a place in the sky called Sugarcandy Mountain, where he says
animals go when they die — but only if they work hard. He is interpreted as
symbolising the Russian Orthodox Church, and Sugarcandy Mountain
as an allusion to Heaven for the animals.
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط] He
spends time turning the animals' minds to Sugarcandy Mountain
and yet does no work himself. He feels unequal in comparison to the other
animals so he leaves after the rebellion, for all animals were supposed to be
equal. However, much later in the book he returns to the farm and continues to
proclaim the existence of Sugarcandy
Mountain. The other
animals are confused by the pigs' attitude towards Moses; they denounce his
claims as nonsense, but allow him to remain on the farm. The pigs do this to
offer the hope of a happy afterlife to the other animals, probably to keep
their minds on Sugarcandy
Mountain and not on
possible uprisings. In the end, Moses is one of few animals to remember the
rebellion, along with Clover, Benjamin, and the pigs.
The Sheep
They show limited understanding of the
situations but nonetheless blindly support Napoleon's ideals. They are
regularly shown repeating the phrase "four legs good, two legs bad".
At the end of the novel, one of the Seven Commandments is changed after the
pigs learn to walk on two legs and their shout changes to "four legs good,
two legs better". They can be relied on by the pigs to shout down any
dissent from the others.
The Hens
They destroy their eggs instead of handing
them to the higher powers (the pigs), who want to sell them to humans. Napoleon
then uses fear and starves them until the pigs get what they want.
The Cows
Their milk is stolen by the pigs, who learn
to milk them, and is stirred into the pigs'
[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط] every day while
the other animals are not given any such luxuries.