Animal Farm

Characterize Snowball as a leader. Do you think his reaction to the stable-boy's death is the approprate reaction to have during the revolution?

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One of the leaders among the pigs, Snowball is a young pig that is up for sale. He is more intelligent than Napoleon but lacks Napoleon’s depth of character. He is also a brilliant orator. Snowball, who represents Leon Trotsky, is a progressive politician and aims to improve Animal Farm with a windmill and other technological advances, but Napoleon expels him before he can do so. Boxer, who believes that he has unintentionally killed a stable boy in the chaos, expresses his regret at taking a life, even though it is a human one. Snowball tells him not to feel guilty, asserting that, “The only good human being is a dead one.” At this point in the novel Snowball is convinced in the sanctity of their cause. It is the animals versus them (humans). I think Snowball's reaction to the boy's death is typical of revolutionary rhetoric. There must be a clear enemy and they must be dealt with without mercy. 

Well yes and no.

On the yes side, he WAS trying to overthrow the animals.

On the no side, he was young so he was (more) innocent then the older men.

Guess it depends on how you look at it?

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