The book Animal Farm is a satire on the Russian revolution, and therefore full of symbolism. The characters and buildings in this story represent more than farm structures or just plain animals. They represent the infrastructure of the rise of communism, not only in Russia but everywhere. In animal farm there were 3 basic classes of animals. The Pigs and the Dogs were at the top class which was the bureaucrats and secret police. The second class was the working class which included: the horses, rats and rabbits, donkeys and the wild animals. The last class was the middle class represented by Mollie the cow.
             The top of the class was represented by 3 main pigs and a pack of dogs. The three main pigs were Snowball, Napoleon and Squealer. Napoleon and Snowball were the leaders who organized the animal farm after the revolution. Napoleon was deliberately named after the dictator of France and is a metaphor the dictator of Russia Stalin. Snowball represented Trotsky who was another leader during the rise of communism. Trotsky like snowball thought he could run things better and was more intelligent, but later assassinated by the secret police known as the KGB. The KGB symbolized the pack of dogs in animal farm. Squealer represented propaganda during the Russian revolution. Since television wasn't introduced yet, propaganda was mostly spread by the newspapers.
             The Second class of Animals was again the working class. The working class was the backbone of the revolution. The animals that most represented the working class were the two horses, Clover and Boxer. Boxer was cleverly given that name to symbolize the Boxer Rebellion in China. The people in the boxer rebellion were mostly of the proletariat class. In Russia, the proletariat class (unskilled workers) was the most drawn to the revolution and Stalin. They thought the revolution would bring change for the better for them and their families, but they
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