Animal Farm - Animal Farm Main Characters o Old Majordying pig who inspires the animal uprising Represents Vladimir Ilich Lenin who founded the Russian

Animal Farm • Main Characters o Old Major–dying pig who inspires the animal uprising  Represents Vladimir Ilich Lenin who founded the Russian Communist Part and led the 1917 Russian Revolution o Napoleon–ruthless, power-hungry pig who eventually seizes control of Animal Farm and abolishes the idealistic rules of government  Represents Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin who succeeded Lenin and ruled with an iron fist; any tyrant of any age, such as Nero, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin or Pol Pot o Snowball –intelligent pig who helps establish animalism, seeing Snowball as a rival for power, Napoleon ousts him  Represents Leon Trotsky, the Communist theorist who helped bring about the 1917 Russian Revolution but was later expelled by Stalin o Squealer –Napoleon’s clever propagandist 