Snowball The Pig

Snowball the Pig from George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a tender-hearted, vastly intelligent, and one of the most respected animals on the farm. He explains his ideas in detail and helps animals understand subjects and ideas they need to learn in the story. He is kind-hearted and takes compassion to animals who cannot learn extensively, specifically the sheep and hens, “Snowball declared that the Seven Commandments could be reduced to a single maxim, namely ‘four legs good, two legs bad’” (Orwell 34). In this section of the book, the animals are trying to learn how to read and write, but not all animals have the intelligence that pigs do to learn. This leads Snowball to envision a way to shorten things up for the animals lacking the intelligence

It also shows his concern for the animals potentially believing or carrying out something not subjecting to Animalism, and wants to make sure it does not happen; that all animals are content. Snowball is a very intelligent pig, evident in chapter 5 when he creates plans for a windmill on the farm, and “with his books held open by a stone, and with a piece of chalk gripped between the knuckles of his trotter, he would move rapidly to and fro, drawing in line after line and uttering little whimpers of excitement. Gradually the plans grew into a complicated mass of cranks and cogwheels, covering more than half the floor, which the other animals found completely unintelligible, but very impressive” (49). This drawn out section expresses not only Snowball’s intellect, but how diligently he can work on something that may potentially aid the

Even when Napoleon said he was a traitor in the past, Boxer still holds the belief that Snowball was a brave pig and helped them plenty before the issue of the windmill arose. Moreover, it foreshadows a very close event that takes place almost immediately after this conversation between Squealer and Boxer, where animals are murdered for having some sort of contact or secret scheme with Snowball outside of the farm. The section reveals to tell that Snowball’s previous kindness and intelligence were not forgotten, and burned in their memory solidly, thus making him a very significant member of the farm. Altogether, Snowball is an admirable character chased away by wicked intentions, as he was generous to all animals of the farm, highly intelligent to create studies and plans for the animals, and was adept enough in both attributes for animals to still question Napoleon’s statement of “traitor” and by such was one of the most important and respected animals on the farm, even for a period of time when he was not on