Personification: Giving animals human-like qualities
Many of the animals in Animal Farm act in very human like ways. When you think of the various characters in Animal Farm, what
human like qualities do these characters have?
1. The pigs (Squealer, Snowball, Pinkeye, Old Major, Napoleon, Minimus):
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2. Benjamin, the donkey:
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3. Mollie and Boxer, the horses:
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6. Moses, the raven:
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7. The dogs:
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8. The cat:
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9. Muriel, the goat:
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10. The sheep:
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Now get out you Russian Revolution timeline. There are a number of people who were important players in the revolution change that took place in
Russia. There were also a number of ideas that were important in the history of the Soviet Union (Russia). These same events and people are a key aspect
of Animal Farm, however they may take on a different form (animal). Below I have listed the “real life” characters who were significant to this part of
Russian history, match these people/events/ideas to the characters/events in Animal Farm.
1. Joseph Stalin
a. Squealer
2. Leon Trotsky
c. Napoleon
3. The Five Year Plan
d. Animalism
4. The NKVD
e. The dogs
5. The working class
f. Boxer
6. The rich who supported Stalin
g. Mollie
7. Communism
h. The Windmill
8. Propaganda
i. Snowball
9. Karl Marx
j. Old Major
After matching up each character/concept from the novel with the character/concept from history. Write a brief description of how each character in
the novel represents the character/concept from history.
1. Napoleon:
2. Squealer:
3. Animalism
4. Mollie:
5. Boxer:
6. Snowball:
7. Old Major:
8. The Windmill:
9. The dogs: