{ "schemaVersion": 1, "slug": "animal-farm", "title": "Animal Farm", "author": "George Orwell", "language": "English", "spoilers": true, "characters": [ { "name": "Mr. Jones", "aliases": [ "Jones" ], "description": "The former human owner of Manor Farm, driven off by the animals. He led the human attack at the Battle of the Cowshed and died in an inebriates’ home in another part of the country." }, { "name": "Mrs. Jones", "aliases": [], "description": "Mr. Jones’s wife, who fled Manor Farm during the Rebellion, followed by Moses. Napoleon later wears her clothes, and his favourite sow wears a dress she used to wear on Sundays." }, { "name": "Old Major", "aliases": [ "Major", "Willingdon Beauty" ], "description": "A highly respected prize Middle White boar whose speech inspires the animals to rebel and introduces Animalism and “Beasts of England.” He dies peacefully, and his skull is later displayed at the flagstaff; the animals continue to believe in the Republic of the Animals he foretold." }, { "name": "Bluebell", "aliases": [], "description": "One of Manor Farm’s dogs. She and Jessie have puppies whom Napoleon takes away and raises as attack dogs; both dogs later die." }, { "name": "Jessie", "aliases": [], "description": "One of Manor Farm’s dogs. She and Bluebell have puppies whom Napoleon takes away and raises as attack dogs; both dogs later die." }, { "name": "Pincher", "aliases": [], "description": "One of Manor Farm’s dogs, who opposed the vote declaring rats comrades. He later dies." }, { "name": "Boxer", "aliases": [], "description": "A powerful, steady cart-horse devoted to Clover and faithful to Napoleon. After years of tireless work and a serious lung injury, he is taken away in a van belonging to a horse slaughterer and never seen again; the animals are told he died in a hospital." }, { "name": "Clover", "aliases": [], "description": "A stout, motherly cart-horse and Boxer’s companion. She cares for his injuries and tries to stop the van taking him away; in old age she helps the younger horses understand the Rebellion, questions Benjamin about the altered Commandments, and watches the pigs’ faces change at the farmhouse gathering." }, { "name": "Muriel", "aliases": [], "description": "A white goat who can read and sometimes reads to the others. She helps Clover check altered Commandments and later dies." }, { "name": "Benjamin", "aliases": [], "description": "The oldest and most cynical animal on Manor Farm, a donkey quietly devoted to Boxer. He recognizes the warning words on the van taking Boxer away and, in old age, reads the final Commandment to Clover." }, { "name": "Mollie", "aliases": [], "description": "A pretty white mare attached to sugar and ribbons. She flees Animal Farm and is later reported harnessed to a dogcart near Willingdon." }, { "name": "The cat", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed cat on Manor Farm who takes little interest in farm life and avoids work. She disappears just before Napoleon summons the animals for the executions." }, { "name": "Moses", "aliases": [ "Moses the raven" ], "description": "Mr. Jones’s tame raven and pet, who tells tales and claims animals go after death to Sugarcandy Mountain. After several years away, he returns to the farm and is allowed to stay without working, with a daily beer allowance; he is among the few who remember life before the Rebellion." }, { "name": "Snowball", "aliases": [], "description": "A young boar who helped develop Animalism, led the animals’ defence at the Battle of the Cowshed, and planned the windmill before Napoleon’s dogs drove him away. Napoleon and Squealer repeatedly accuse him of treachery and crimes; a later claim says he fought for Jones and that Napoleon inflicted his wounds." }, { "name": "Napoleon", "aliases": [], "description": "A Berkshire boar who rules Animal Farm through force and propaganda. He becomes its President, exploits Boxer’s labour, and has him taken away; after Boxer’s reported death, Napoleon praises him and urges the animals to adopt his maxims. Eventually Napoleon and the pigs walk on two legs, carry whips, meet human farmers as equals, and restore the farm’s original name, The Manor Farm." }, { "name": "Squealer", "aliases": [], "description": "A persuasive pig who justifies Napoleon’s rule and revises the animals’ understanding of events. He falsely reassures them about Boxer’s removal and death, teaches the sheep a new chant, and later walks on his hind legs." }, { "name": "The three cows", "aliases": [], "description": "Three individually unidentified cows on Animal Farm. Their lack of milk prompts the pigs to milk them; they later emerge from ambush at the Battle of the Cowshed and claim Snowball milks them at night." }, { "name": "The hen who speaks about the milk", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed hen who recalls that Mr. Jones sometimes mixed milk into the animals’ mash." }, { "name": "The cockerel", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed cockerel who agrees to call Boxer early so he can start work before the others. The text does not establish whether he is the black cockerel who later announces Napoleon." }, { "name": "Mr. Pilkington", "aliases": [], "description": "The easy-going gentleman farmer who owns Foxwood. He competes with Frederick for the timber, briefly has friendly relations with Napoleon, and refuses to help the animals when Frederick attacks, sending the message “Serves you right.” Years later he sells two fields to Animal Farm, praises its discipline and low rations, and toasts its prosperity; he later quarrels with Napoleon over a simultaneous ace of spades." }, { "name": "Mr. Frederick", "aliases": [], "description": "The tough, shrewd owner of Pinchfield, a neighboring farm. He buys the timber with forged banknotes, then leads an armed attack on Animal Farm and blows up its windmill before his men are driven off." }, { "name": "The stable lad from Foxwood", "aliases": [ "the boy" ], "description": "An unnamed young farmhand from Foxwood who is struck on the skull by Boxer during the Battle of the Cowshed. He is stunned, recovers, and flees." }, { "name": "The fat red-faced man near Willingdon", "aliases": [ "the publican" ], "description": "An unnamed man in check breeches and gaiters, described as looking like a publican. Pigeons report that he feeds sugar to and strokes Mollie while she is harnessed to his dogcart." }, { "name": "Minimus", "aliases": [], "description": "A pig with a gift for composing songs and poems. He writes a replacement for “Beasts of England” and a poem praising Napoleon." }, { "name": "Mr. Whymper", "aliases": [], "description": "A solicitor from Willingdon who brokers trade between Animal Farm and the outside world. He negotiates with Frederick and Pilkington, works on buying windmill machinery, and is later instructed to purchase brewing and distilling booklets; years later he owns a dogcart." }, { "name": "The four young pigs", "aliases": [], "description": "Four individually unidentified pigs who timidly protest when Napoleon abolishes the Sunday meetings and later object to his trading policy. They are forced to confess alleged dealings with Snowball and are executed." }, { "name": "The three Black Minorca pullets", "aliases": [], "description": "Three young hens who lead the resistance to Napoleon’s order to surrender their eggs, trying to defeat it by laying eggs from the rafters. They later confess to plotting against Napoleon and are executed." }, { "name": "The nine hens who died", "aliases": [], "description": "Nine unnamed hens who die during the five-day protest against surrendering their eggs. Their deaths are falsely attributed to coccidiosis." }, { "name": "The narrator", "aliases": [], "description": "The unnamed narrator who recounts events on Animal Farm and participates in no described action." }, { "name": "The nine dogs", "aliases": [], "description": "Napoleon’s large, fierce dogs, who intimidate the animals, carry out the executions, and flank Frederick’s men during the animals’ counterattack." }, { "name": "The goose who hid corn", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed goose who confesses to hiding and eating six ears of corn from the previous year’s harvest. The confession is followed by the goose’s execution." }, { "name": "The sheep accused of fouling the drinking pool", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed sheep who confesses to urinating in the drinking pool, claiming Snowball urged her to do it. She is executed." }, { "name": "The two sheep who killed the old ram", "aliases": [], "description": "Two unnamed sheep who confess to chasing an old ram around a bonfire while he was suffering from a cough. They are executed." }, { "name": "The old ram", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed ram and especially devoted follower of Napoleon, killed by two sheep while suffering from a cough." }, { "name": "The black cockerel", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed cockerel who marches ahead of Napoleon and announces his appearances with a loud crow. The text does not establish whether he is the same cockerel who agreed to call Boxer early." }, { "name": "Pinkeye", "aliases": [], "description": "A young pig assigned to taste Napoleon’s food before he eats, to guard against poisoning." }, { "name": "The three hens accused of plotting Napoleon’s murder", "aliases": [], "description": "Three unnamed hens who confess to plotting against Napoleon under Snowball’s inspiration. They are executed; the text does not establish whether they are the same hens who led the earlier egg rebellion." }, { "name": "The gander who confessed to the weed plot", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed gander who confesses to helping Snowball mix weed seeds into the wheat crop, then kills himself by swallowing deadly nightshade berries." }, { "name": "The old horse killed by Frederick", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed horse at Pinchfield, reported by the animals to have been flogged to death by Frederick." }, { "name": "The cow starved by Frederick", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed cow at Pinchfield, reported by the animals to have been starved by Frederick." }, { "name": "The dog killed by Frederick", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed dog at Pinchfield, reported by the animals to have been killed by Frederick, who threw it into a furnace." }, { "name": "The four sows", "aliases": [], "description": "Four unnamed sows who give birth to thirty-one piglets between them; Napoleon is the only boar on the farm, making him their presumed father." }, { "name": "The thirty-one young pigs", "aliases": [], "description": "Napoleon’s piebald offspring, born to the four sows. They receive instruction from Napoleon and are kept apart from the other young animals." }, { "name": "The cow killed in the Battle of the Windmill", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed cow killed during the animals’ counterattack against Frederick’s men." }, { "name": "The three sheep killed in the Battle of the Windmill", "aliases": [], "description": "Three unnamed sheep killed during the animals’ counterattack against Frederick’s men." }, { "name": "The two geese killed in the Battle of the Windmill", "aliases": [], "description": "Two unnamed geese killed during the animals’ counterattack against Frederick’s men." }, { "name": "The fifteen men with Frederick", "aliases": [], "description": "Frederick’s armed followers who attack Animal Farm, destroy the windmill with explosives, and are driven off after the animals’ counterattack." }, { "name": "The man gored by a cow", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed member of Frederick’s force who is gored in the belly by a cow during the Battle of the Windmill." }, { "name": "The man whose trousers Jessie and Bluebell nearly tear off", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed member of Frederick’s force whose trousers are nearly torn off by Jessie and Bluebell during the Battle of the Windmill." }, { "name": "The three men struck by Boxer", "aliases": [], "description": "Three unnamed members of Frederick’s force whose heads are broken by blows from Boxer’s hooves during the Battle of the Windmill." }, { "name": "The animals killed in the Battle of the Windmill", "aliases": [], "description": "The unnamed animal casualties of Frederick’s attack: a cow, three sheep, and two geese. Their bodies are given a solemn funeral." }, { "name": "The horse slaughterer’s driver", "aliases": [ "the sly-looking man in the bowler hat" ], "description": "An unnamed man in a low-crowned bowler hat who drives the van that takes Boxer away. The van bears the name Alfred Simmonds, a horse slaughterer and glue boiler." }, { "name": "The two horses drawing the van", "aliases": [], "description": "Two unnamed horses who pull away the van carrying Boxer. They do not understand the animals’ pleas to stop." }, { "name": "Alfred Simmonds", "aliases": [], "description": "A horse slaughterer and glue boiler in Willingdon, named on the van that takes Boxer away. The van is later said to have previously belonged to him." }, { "name": "The veterinary surgeon in Willingdon", "aliases": [], "description": "An unnamed veterinary surgeon whom Squealer says will treat Boxer and who supposedly bought the old slaughterer’s van. The animals are told Boxer died in the surgeon’s hospital, though the van’s lettering and Benjamin’s warning suggest he was sold to the knacker." }, { "name": "The three horses besides Clover", "aliases": [], "description": "Three unnamed horses on Animal Farm in its later years. They are willing workers and respect Clover, but are too stupid to learn more than the letter B." }, { "name": "The favourite sow", "aliases": [], "description": "Napoleon’s unnamed favourite sow, who appears in Mrs. Jones’s Sunday dress. The text does not establish whether she is one of the four sows previously mentioned." }, { "name": "The neighbouring farmers at the inspection", "aliases": [], "description": "Unnamed human farmers invited to tour Animal Farm years later. 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