Snowball Quotes

“More vivacious than Napoleon” … “quicker in speech and more inventive”

Social, juxtapose with Napoleon’s character

“Snowball busied himself with organising the animals into what he called Animal Committees…On the whole these projects were a failure”

Highlights his desire to help other animals, unfortunately no successful despite his enthusiasm

“Almost every animal on the farm was literate in some degree”

This is one of snowball’s greatest success, compared with napoleon

NAP”The education of the young was more important”

Allusion → Reference to hitler youth

shows his desire to manipulate and control

“The milk and the apples should be reserved for the pigs alone”

They are openly exploiting their power → hierarchy, greed, taking advantage → inequality + disparity

“Snowball had studied an old book of julius Caesar’s campaigns”

Strong capable military leader, shows intelligence → leadership skill, tactician, shrewd

“The pellets scored bloody streaks along Snowball’s back”

Graphic Language + Plosives→ highlights the danger snowball faces and also his bravery

“Snowball often won over the majority with his brilliant speeches”

engaging, charismatic, full of personality

SN”full of plans for innovations and improvements.” + “Supply the farm with electrical power…light the stalls and warm them in winter”

Shows his enthusiasm and desire to make things better and improve conditions, unlike napoleon

“I do not believe that…Snowball fought bravely”

Adamant language → shows his conflictions, sometimes challenging the pigs, shows the pis he might be a threat

“Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?”

he is the one who answers the animals’ questions prior to the Rebellion. he burns the ribbons and explains that they are symbols of man’s oppression

“To-day we begin the hay harvest”

he leads the tour of the farmhouse with Napoleon and sets the priorities for work. He wrote the 7 commandments

“Let us make it a point of honour to get in the harvest more quickly than Jones”

he enthuses the animals to get the harvest in faster than in Jones’s time

he creates and hoists the flag and explains to the animals what it represents e.g. the green represents the fields of England, while the hoof and horn represents the Republic of the Animals

“The birds did not understand Snowball’s long words…all the humbler animals set to work to learn the new maxim”

his ideas are difficult to implement because his vocabulary is not understood by the other animals