Animal Farm Flashcards

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Mr. and Mrs. Jones

Czar Nicolas II, old ruling aristocracy

Old Major

Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx, ideas that inspire communist revolution

Bluebell, Jessie and Pincher

Loyal citizens or the secret police (KGB/NKVD)

The puppies

The Soviet secret police (KGB)

Boxer

Loyal working class (proletariat), work hard but are ultimately betrayed

Clover

Female working class, mothers, caring but naive

Muriel

Educated working class, understand problems but don’t take action

Benjamin

Intellectuals who see corruption but do nothing, cynical or skeptical citizens/bystanders

Mollie

Bourgeoisie (Upper class) who preferred luxury and fled Russia after the revolution

Moses

Religion (Organized religion, Russian Orthodox Church), keeps people passive

The Cat

Opportunists who avoid work and act only in their own intereest

Snowball

Leon Trotsky, later exiled

Napoleon

Joseph Stalin, dictator who seized power after Lenin

Squealer

Propaganda used to manipulate and control the public

The sheep

Blind followers of the regime

Mr. Pilkington

Capitalist Churchill and JFK, skeptical of Communist Soviet Union but eventually cooperated

Mr. Frederick

Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, betrayed the Soviet Union

Mr. Whymper

Western businessmen and lawyers, who traded and legitimized the Soviet Union