Characteristics:

• Popular

• Brave

• Naïve- lack of experience and wisdom

• Noble

• Scapegoat

To some extent, Snowball is dishonest and hypocritical; he does not protest that the pigs unfairly have milk and apples.

Context

Snowball’s character represents Trotsky. Trotsky believed in the same communist ideas as Marx and Lenin. He was intelligent and led the communist to victory in the Russian civil war against Tsar Nicholas. Trotsky was violently pushed into exile by Joseph Stalin (Napoleon).

Quotes

Intelligent- “ Quicker in speech and more innovative”

Brave- “ He himself dashed straight for Jones”

Popular- “ Snowball often won over the majority with his brilliant speeches”

Scapegoat- “In league with Jones from the very start”