Snowball In Animal Farm By George Orwell

In the satiric novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, the character Snowball represents Leon Trotsky, who helps the animals gain control of their freedom. However, the Utopia that they fought so hard for was not the paradise that they had wished for; the animals are manipulated by the pigs and find that they are no better off than when they had started. Snowball is manipulative, disloyal, and destructive and he can easily get people to do what he asks of them. Without Snowball, Animal Farm might have had a better survival system than death to those who have had contact with Snowball or who were overall useless to Napoleon.
Snowball has many different character traits, one of which is being manipulative. This shows when, “The sheep confessed to having urinated in the drinking pool- urged to do so, so she said, by Snowball- and two other sheep confessed to having murdered an old ram, an especially devoted follower of Napoleon (26).” This shows that the animals trusted Snowball enough to allow him to manipulate them into doing these startling things. Furthermore, this also illustrates that Snowball took their trust
Some words that prove this are, “Snowball was Jones's agent from the very beginning- yes and from long before the rebellion was ever thought(25),” Squealer had told the animals. Squealer was trying to make Snowball appear to be the enemy that he might have actually been. This also illustrates that Snowball’s actions are not as true as they emerge to be. During the execution, “The four pigs.. added that Snowball had privately admitted to them that he had been Jones’s secret agent for years past(26).” This shows that what Squealer has told the animals was not false at all. Snowball was never loyal to the animals, he was only ever dedicated to Farmer Jones and himself. Therefore, being disloyal was a very strong attribute because it might have been the first feature that lead to him being the