The Pigs in Animal Farm - a mindmap resource
Work in progress; aims to provide students with framework to add quotations on top of as well as ways of comparing the different Pigs in the text
- Created by: Helen Topping Shaw
- Created on: 07-03-17 08:41
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- 'Animal Farm': the Pigs
- Napoleon
- Leadership, deceit, corruption
- Symbolises Stalin, leader of Soviet Union 1930-1953
- Cowardly, shrewd, calculating, selfish. Cares more about personal power than rebellion’s ideals. Builds a Totalitarian dictatorship based on terror and lies
- Snowball
- Leadership, conflict, education
- Lively, creative, intelligent; promotes education as important. Political naiveté is no match for Napoleon's cunning
- Symbolizes Leon Trotsky, exiled 1927; assassinated Mexico 1940
- Squealer
- Deceit, propaganda
- Skilled orator who prioritises comfort above all things; short and fat
- Molotov; Soviet press and Ministry of Information
- Minimus
- Propaganda
- Poems / songs praising Napoleon; represents controls of the Arts in a Totalitarian state that aims to control what citizens think
- Propaganda
- The younger Pigs
- Support / dissent; internal conflict
- Represent the Purges of Stalin's political opponents
- First protest when Sunday meetings are cancelled; later 'admit' to crime of spying for Snowball. Executed by the Dogs under Napoleon's orders
- Old Major
- Origins of the Rebellion, legacy, the past
- Prize-boar; relatively privileged farm life; offers rules of Animalism as explanation of human exploitation
- Dies at start of Ch 2; symbolises Karl Marx / author of the Communist Manifesto
- Napoleon
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