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What do Trotsky and Snowball have in common?
One of the biggest similarities between the two are that Trotsky was exiled from Russia during the Russian Revolution, in the book the same thing happened to Snowball as well. In “Animal Farm” Snowball got exiled from Animal Farm, as attempts for Stalin to become the head leader.
What character in Animal Farm represents Leon Trotsky?
Snowball
Snowball, fictional character, a pig who is one of the leaders of the revolt in Animal Farm (1945), George Orwell’s allegorical tale about the early history of Soviet Russia. Most critics agree that Snowball represents Leon Trotsky.
Who does Snowball and Napoleon represent?
Old Major stands for either Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin, and the pig named Snowball represents the intellectual revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Napoleon stands for Stalin, while the dogs are his secret police.
What does it mean when the author says Snowball was not considered to have the same depth of character?
He’s “a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character” (2.2). In other words, the animals are fooled by Snowball’s appearance: because he’s friendly and lively, they assume that he’s a ditz.
What happens to Snowball in Animal Farm?
While his fate is unclear in the novel and 1999-film, history suggests that just like the original Trotsky was killed by KGB assassins, Snowball was killed by Napoleon’s dogs.
How did Snowball educate the animals?
Snowball is the animal most clearly attuned to old Major’s thinking, and he devotes himself to bettering the animals in intellectual, moral, and physical ways. He brings literacy to the farm so that the animals can better grasp the principles of Animalism by reading the Seven Commandments he paints on the barn wall.
Was Snowball killed in animal Farm?
How did the difficulties between Snowball and Napoleon represent the difficulties between Trotsky and Stalin?
The struggle between these two characters is symbolic of the situation between Joseph Stalin (Napoleon) and Leon Trotsky (Snowball), who was banished from the Soviet Union by Stalin, just like Snowball is banished from the farm by Napoleon, who uses Snowball as a scapegoat for the supposed problems that are happening …