o represent the Communist Party. Before and short after the revolution they acted like being loyal to theworking-class, or common animals, but later they have became just like,the Tsar family. They just exploit the working-class, and they live in luxuryand abundance. The dogs were recruited by the pigs to protect their own power andmight. The dogs were also used to evict and to intimidate politicalenemies within their own rows. So one can say that the cruel dogs standfor the army and the secret-police.Moses, the raven, is a symbol for the orthodox church, that wassomehow an allied of the Russian Tsar. Moses always told stories of theSugar Candy Mountain where all dead animals live on. Moses tries topersuade the animals that there is no need for revolution.The humans stand for the capitalists, who exploit the weak. The rats and the rabbits, who are regarded as wild animals,somehow represent the socialist movement, the so-called Menscheviki. In the very beginning of the book the animals vote if rats and rabbitsshould be comrades.The pigeons, who fly out each day to spread out the message of thevictory, represent the Communist World Revolution. The Beast of England can best be symbolized as the CommunistInternational. Fredericks, stands for Hitler. Pinchfiled symbolizes Germany.The farm stands for the Kremlin. In the early days of the USSR therewere sightseeing tours through Kremlin. Later it became the residence ofStalin. The windmill stands for the Russian industry, that has been build upby the working-class, Clover. The destruction of the windmill is a symbolfor the failure of the Five Year Plan....
