Themes
- Power
- Lies
- Deceit
- Corruption
- Control
- Rules and Order
- Dreams and Hopes
- Foolishness
- Pride
- Religion
- Violence
- Cunning
- Clever
- Education
Characters
- Napoleon
- Snowball
- Squealer
- Boxer
- Mollie
- Benjamin
- Old Major
- Clover
- Mr and Mrs Jones
- Bluebell, Jessie and Pincher
- The Sheep
- Nine Dogs
- Mr Pilkington
- Mr Whymper
- Mr Frederick
Ideas
- Allegory, (Story, Poem or Picture that can be interpreted to find a hidden meaning or moral)
- Fable
- Dystopia
- Russian Revolution
- Stalin
- Marxism
- Communism
- Dictatorship
- Soviet Union
- 'Fuse political purpose and artistic purpose'
- Universal representation of totalitarianism
- Politcal fable and animal fable
Motifs
- Songs
- Poems
- Slogans
- “Beasts of England”
- Minimus’s ode to Napoleon
- The sheep’s chants
- “Animal Farm, Animal Farm'
- State Rituals
- Parades
- Military awards
Symbols
- Animal Farm (Symbolises Russia and the soviet union under the communist party rule)
- The Barn (Where most of the oppressing and changes are made)
- The Windmill (The pigs manipulation of the other animals for their own gain)
- From an allegorical point of view, the windmill represents the enormous modernisation projects undertaken in Soviet Russia after the Russian Revolution.
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