Mollie性格分析

Mollie - The vain, flighty mare who pulls Mr. Jones’s carriage. Mollie craves the attention of human beings and loves being groomed and pampered. She has a difficult time with her new life on Animal Farm, as she misses wearing ribbons in her mane and eating sugar cubes. She represents the petit bourgeoisie that fled from Russia a few years after the Russian Revolution.
对于Mollie，她就是一个活生生的不怎么适应和赞成改变农场生活的代表。

当读到她在chapter 2 问Snowball的问题中，我们似乎就可以预料到她未来的一些行为。

她喜欢ribbon and sugar, 至于其他的东西，她不在意。

Liberty is worth more than ribbon? 在她的思维里，或许不是这样的。

她在乎当前的享受，她喜欢美貌，她爱慕虚荣，她觉得被人这样养着、驯服着很好；她不喜欢劳作，她不想把自己的丝带扔掉。

她不仅仅是一匹母马，她更像是一个被训惯了的人，一旦脱离了那束缚，她反倒会觉得不习惯，享受当下似乎才是生活的根本，至于以后，自由，这些对她来说都是其次。

至今还让印象很深的是Mollie那句话：
―He didn’t! I wasn’t! It isn’t true!… It isn’t true!‖
Clover said, ―Do you give me your word of honour that the man was not stroking your nose?‖
―It isn’t true!‖
三个叹号，三句短句，急促而不拖沓，把当初Mollie焦急而不安的心情表现的淋漓尽致。

她紧张了，她清楚地知道背叛和不忠意味着什么，不管怎样，她的举动和想法不能被任何其他动物察觉，不可以，丝毫都不行!当Clover说出他看到有人抚摸她的鼻子时，不行，必须马上否认，这应是Mollie立刻做出的反应。

前面两句用过去式，表达了她坚决而强烈的否定。

后面一句用一般现在时，―没有，就是没有，过去没有，现在没有，将来她也不会允许人类抚摸她的鼻子。

‖这个或许是她的潜台词吧。

但是仔细分析她说的话，我们就不难发现其中的破绽，假若Mollie真的没有和人类有什么联系，像她这么懒散、贪图享乐的动物会因为Clover这么一问就不安而不停地否认吗？Clover在问她时也是非常肯定的，因为他确实看到了，这一点用这个问句中的过去进行时就能看出来，我刚开始还在纳闷，他怎么不直接用过去时呢，后来在读第二遍时才明白了他的用意，他在告诉Mollie,他非常肯定在那点确确实实看到了有人在抚摸她的鼻子，如果单纯用过去式则没有那么强的肯定语气了。

一个是强烈的否定，一个是强烈的肯定，这组对话形成了鲜明的对比，欲盖弥彰就在这里得到了很好的体现。

作者的讽刺口吻也恰如其分的得到了很好的体现—愚蠢而爱慕虚荣的Mollie，她却丝毫没察觉。

Mollie - Mollie seems to be some sort of representation of Russia's upper classes. But, since Orwell portrays her as a horse - the same animal used to represent the 'working class' horses Boxer & Clover - Mollie may simply represent members of the working class that remained faithful to the Czar. In either case, Mollie was never really in favor of the revolution. She went along with it, but she didn't actually engage in the fighting. Mollie didn't mind being a 'servant' to the humans, since she was constantly being pampered by them. After the revolution, Mollie begins to miss the beautiful
ribbons (fine clothes) and sugar cane (fine food) she used to receive from her human masters. She eventually flees the animal farm to live elsewhere in Willingdon.
Unlike Boxer, who always thinks of others, Mollie is a shallow materialist who cares nothing for the struggles of her fellow animals. Her first appearance in the novel suggests her personality when she enters the meeting at the last moment, chewing sugar and sitting in the front so that the others will be able to admire the red ribbons she wears in her mane. Her only concerns about the revolution are ones prompted by her ego: When she asks Snowball if they will still have sugar and ribbons after the rebellion, she betrays the thoughts of old Major and reveals her vanity. She is lulled off the farm by the prospect of more material possessions than she could enjoy in an animal-governed world, marking her as one to whom politics and struggle mean nothing.
Mollie– A vain horse who loves sugar and wearing pretty ribbons in her mane, Mollie never much cares about the revolution. She abandons Animal Farm and puts herself into service for another human well before totalitarianism even takes hold on the farm. Mollie symbolizes the selfish and materialistic middle-class.
Mollie: Mollie is one of Orwell's minor characters, but she represents something very important. Mollie is the animal who is most opposed to the new government under Napoleon. She doesn't care much about the politics of the whole situation; she just wants to tie her hair with ribbons and eat sugar, things her social status won't allow. Many animals consider her a trader when she is seen being petted by a human from a neighboring farm. Soon Mollie is confronted by the "dedicated" animals, and she quietly leaves the farm. Mollie characterizes the typical middle-class skilled worker who suffers from this new communism concept. No longer will she get her sugar (nice salary) because she is now just as low as the other animals, like Boxer and Clover.
Orwell uses Mollie to characterize the people after any rebellion who aren't too receptive to new leaders and new economics. There are always those resistant to change. This continues to dispel the believe Orwell hated that basically all animals act the same. The naivety of Marxism is criticized— socialism is not perfect and it doesn't work for everyone.
Mollie (a horse)
Character Analysis
Do I Look Fat in These Ribbons?
Mollie is stupid, vain, and materialistic. (It's a good thing she's pretty.) From the very beginning, we get hints that she's not going to last long in the rebellion: she comes late to Old Major's speech, and she "took a place near the front and began flirting her white mane, hoping to draw attention to the red ribbons it was plaited with" (1.4). The
first thing she wants to know is, "Will there be sugar after the rebellion?" (2.3); the second thing she wants to know is whether she'll be allowed to wear ribbons.
Not that she waits for an answer: after the rebellion, the animals find her in the farmhouse, where "she had taken a piece of blue ribbon from Mrs. Jones's
dressing-table, and was holding it against her shoulder and admiring herself in the glass in a very foolish manner" (2.18).
When the work begins, Mollie shows up late and leaves early. When there's fighting, she hides in her manger. And when life gets hard during the winter, she gets troublesome: "She was late for work every morning and excused herself by saying that she had overslept, and she complained of mysterious pains, though
her appetite was excellent" (3.1). Clover eventually sees Mollie letting one of the neighborhood men pet her nose, and soon after Clover and some other animals discover sugar hidden in Mollie's manger.
In the end, Mollie runs off to be taken care of by humans—and we say, good riddance. (Or we would, if we didn't suspect that we'd end up doing the exact same thing in her situation. Shmoop looks super pretty in blue ribbons.) When Mollie runs off, the narrator notes that "none of the animals ever mentioned Mollie again" (5.7). She's nothing but a bad memory—a reminder that not everyone prefers life at Animal Farm.
Mollie and Stalin's Russia
Mollie is symbol for Russian middle class (bourgeois). They weren't exactly unfaithful to the Bolsheviks, but they weren't about to give up their iPhones and lattes—oops, we mean sugar and ribbons—even if it was supposed to be for their own good in the long run. When the Bolsheviks asked them to give up their luxuries, many of them abandoned the cause and fled to the West.
Of course, in retrospect, Mollie probably had the right idea. If she's going to be oppressed no matter what, she might as well get some ribbons for it.。