al movement that shocked the world. Comrade Napoleon, as he insisted the other animals called him, represents Joseph Stalin, a cruel leader during and after the revolution, who exiled other political leaders and forced mass-executions upon the people, just as Napoleon does in Orwell's fable. Snowball, the opposing pig and leader of the farm to Napoleon, seemed a strong and just leader, until, Napoleon expelled him from the farm and set-off rumors about Napoleon's false attempt to destroy the civilization they had worked to build after the revolution. Snowball links closely with the Soviet expatriate Leon Trotsky, who was expelled from Russia under the leadership of Stalin. Major, the wise pig that passed away days after he unveiled his plan for a new and better life on the farm, seems to portray traits of both Karl Marx and V.I Lenin. Marx, because like this political thinker, Major brought about and created the idea of communism, or 'animalism', the Animal Farm version of this system of thought. In a way, Major is associated with Lenin of the Russian Revolution, the opportunist who brought and initiated the communist way of life on this land when it needed a new system-of-thought to help it's troubled economy and the way-of-life it's people were forced to live out every day. Pilkington and Frederick, the human owners of neighboring farms, represent various world leaders during the time of the revolution, and the occurrences that happened between them and Russia, or between Animal Farm and the other farms. Boxer, a strong dedicated horse of Animal Farm, I believe represented all of the people of Russia. The poverty stricken, the homeless, who still work hard in order to make the system of communism or animalism work. Boxer is the representation of the workers who are pushed around, who are taken for all they are worth, and who are left for dead. In the end of the Orwell's tale, Animal Farm is much worse a place for the common animals th...
