英语 动物农场

Characters in 《Animal Farm》姓名：***学号：***********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 pioneerAs 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 - idealistAs 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 birthto nine sturdy puppies. And he just took them away from their mothers, giving them education in an isolated loft. By contrast, Snowball had a more ideal blueprint; he hoped that every animal could be equal and living with harmony.Snowball was the cleverest pig in the three. Unlike Napoleon’s violence and hungering for the right, unlike squealer’s snobbery, Snowball was an idealist. So he attracted envy, and maybe it was this that caused his deportation ending.Finally, tragedy came. Nine enormous dogs with brass nails and large set of collars let out blood-curdling growls, showed their side teeth and bounded on Snowball. Luckily, Snowball escaped from the manor. Napoleon succeeded in seizing power.This ending was quiet not unexpectedly. Not having any mean in political struggle, just had blood filling in heart and an ideal mind, only lead to fail. Comparing with the victims in history, Snowball was quiet lucky, after all, he survived.3.Napoleon – dictatorIt should not be overdone to call Napoleon a dictator. “Napoleon was a large , rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way.” Sure as it said, at the beginning of the story, he had shown his violence and aggressiveness. After Old Major died, he and Snowball formed political core, and he became a chairman. But it seemed that nothing had done by him in this revolution. He was not willing to do something li ke ‘charge forward’, what he really wanted was getting without any labor.In con struction period, he absolutely was not interested in Snowball’s commitments. He thought it was better to educate the young generation. So he just took away eight puppies.Years later, when he succeeded in power seizing, he used the fierce dogs to kill anyone who against him. And then he became a real dictator.For Snowball’s windmill plan s, Napoleon really lost interest in it. One day, however, he arrived unexpectedly to examine the plans. He looked closely at every detail of the plans and snuffed at them once or twice, and then he urinated over the plans, and walked away. In fact, he never thinks Snowball’s blueprint were boring, he just wanted to appropriate the plans himself. Then he force animals to work night and day, body and soul for the windmill plans. But he just got interest from others’ labor achievements secretly.Napoleon had all the character which a totalitarian has. He just changed the Seven Commandments at will, revised the slogan, changed the song ‘Beasts of England’ ,given himself enough right, killed others casually, carried out obscurantism, collaborated with enemies…was there anything he can’t do? He just acted capriciously!Under Napoleon’s tyranny, an imals were living painfully. They were not allowed to have their own personalities and speak truth. In fact they had already lost their nature and they didn’t know what truth was at all.4.Boxer – loyal ministerBoxer was the most moving character in this story. “Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together. A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in fact he was not offirst-rate intelligence, but he was universally respected for his steadiness of character and tremendous powers of work.” He was simple and honest and he never thinks. There was really not a doubt in his heart. It seemed that only work can make him happy.The pet phrase ‘I’m going to work harder.’ spoke from his mouth is quiet appropriate. Because of his strong body and honest character, he always was the major part of any activities. He joined the revolution, song the ‘Beasts of England’, spread the new ideas, gathered food, carried goods, building the windmill…He was so strong that everyone liked him.But he didn’t know that favor came at a price. Rulers liked him because he worked himself to be bone for them. Animals liked him because he always was the first to work. Owing to his no complaints, it seemed that he became a resource that everyone could use.When he was dying, he couldn’t believe that he was sent to the slaughterhouses by Napoleon and Squealer, in order to get a case of whisky. Even so, Bo xer’s value was still in developing. In Boxer’s memorial meeting, Napoleon drank the whisky and encouraged others learn from Boxer. Napoleon ended his speech with two maxims, “I will work harder” and “Comrade Napoleon is always right”. He said every animal would do well to adopt as his own. Then Boxer’s soul had gone in relief.5.Squealer – glib advocateSquealer was Napoleon’s faithful supporter. He was in charge of the animal government propaganda work. Squealer was a short and fat pig, with round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. “He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive. The others said of Squealer t hat he could turn black into white.”Squealer’s talent in speaking was quickly proved. When all the animals knew that the windfall apples were collected and brought to the pigs, Squealer was sent to make thenecessary explanations to the others. He said as follow:“Comrades! You do not imagine , I hope , that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. We pigs are brainworkers. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Surely, comrades!”What the Squealer always said were “Comrade Napoleon is always right” and “Surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jone s back?” It is by no means accident that his two sentences appeared so often. One the one hand, these deified leaders status and authorities. One the other hand, these can make an enemy, unite all the animals and transfer inner hatred.We can see that Squealer was really a glib, false and cunning pig.。