英语 动物农场

Characters in 《Animal Farm》

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专业：保险学

班级：素质8班

教师姓名：高华

Synopsis of the story:

“Animal Farm” is a political fable novel which tells a story about ‘the revolution of animal’. A Manor F arm’s animal s can’t stand the tyranny of human beings, under the leading of a pig, they draw out the famer. The farm’s name was changed to “Animal Farm”, and the animals supposed the rule “All Animals Are Equal.”Then two pigs in leadership position fell into political infighting in order to get more right. With time went by, the two pigs got more and more rights. And if anyone has any dissatisfaction, they would kill him cruelly. The rule of th e farm was changed into “Some Animals Are More Equal Than Other s.” And the animals stared another miserable life.

Character introduction:

1.Old Major – revolutionary pioneer

As the proponent and the tutor of most animals, Old Major was very remarkable at the beginning. He had a respected statue, and everyone was willing to listen to his dream and believe his words. He had many followers, such as Snowball, Napoleon and Squealer. And surely these three pigs fulfilled Old Major’s last wish, and they became the l eaders of the revolution.

Old Major was the representative of all the animals. They were opposite to the cruel exploitation and bloody killing by human beings, and they required animals should have freedom and equality. He said in his speech: “Our lives a re miserable, laborious, and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruel.”

Old Major had a correct sentence: “…Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. All men are enemies.”How could exploited class and exploiting class have the same interesting? Exploiting person always sits idle and enjoy the fruit of other’s labor, and exploited person always suffers oppression.

And as for the audience of this speech, Old Majo r’s ‘Guiding Ideology’ was quite reasonable. Because it pointed out the serious unfair phenomenon, and found the root –human. The animals thought if the revolution succeeded, they would have more food and do less work. How wonderful the life it was! So they made a decision: they wanted revolution someday.

2.Snowball - idealist

As one of the leaders of the revolution, Snowball was a typical positive character. The author introduced him as fallow: “Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character.”Actually, this character mainly occurred in the early stage of the manor construction. But unfortunately, he was deported by animals in the last.

The reason why Snowball had nimble movements is very simple. In the revolution, he had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments. Snowball also busied himself with organizing the other animals into what he called Animal Committees. He was indefatigable at this. He formed the Egg Production Committee for the hens, the Clean Tails League for the cows, the Wild Comrades’ Re-education Committee and so on. But in this time, Napoleon only did one thing: Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped, giving birth