Molly represents a part in our nature that is inherently greedy and self-centred. She shirks her duties and has a narcissistic nature that even the rebellion cannot tame. She loves herself and the things that she owns. ‘“And shall I still be allowed to wear ribbons in my mane?”’ This shows a part of our nature that is hoarding and vain. Molly represents the rich aristocrats in Russia before the revolution, and how they were reluctant to leave all their riches for the revolution once they found out they were equal and expected to do work. ‘On every kind of pretext, she (Mollie) would run away from work and go to the drinking pool, where she would stand foolishly gazing at her own reflection in the water’ The rich aristocrats still thought themselves better than the peasants and didn’t want to do any work. …show more content…
He mirrors a better side of human nature in that he is full of ideas and is vivacious in all that he does. He is ‘quick in speech’ and more inventive and creative. ‘Snowball had found in the harvest room an old green tablecloth … and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white’. Snowball thought about all that the revolution was and represented and was able to condense it onto a flag. He was also the favourite of the people ‘The animals declared unanimously to create a military decoration “Animal Hero, First Class”, which was conferred there and then on Snowball…’. He was the preferred leader out of him and Napoleon because he liked the animals and was always trying to help them. He organised reading and writing classes to teach the animals to be educated, and they ‘were a great success. By autumn almost every animal was literate to some degree’. Snowball is also the one who plans out the whole windmill and all the mechanics inside it. Snowball represents Trotsky and all the life and enthusiasm that he had for communism. This shows that, even though human nature is inherently bad, we still have the opportunity to be