 Let's look at key quotations that you need to memorize when it comes to Snowball's character and of course do bear in mind that Snowball is the protagonist of this novella, whilst Napoleon is arguably the antagonist. Even if of course Snowball does get banished from the farm, he represents all the ideals and he represents the idealistic leader, however of course do bear in mind that his fatal flaw was that he was unable to recognize the cunning that Napoleon had and of course he wasn't shrewd enough to act before Napoleon did, so he was outwitted by Napoleon, however he really represents Trotsky contextually, so when the Russian Revolution happened the two primary people that were under Lenin, so of course Lenin was the person that led it, he then passed away. Now you had Stalin and Trotsky, Stalin was very forceful, very cunning, however Trotsky even if he was the leader of the Red Army and very strategic, he was also very trusting of all his other comrades within the communist group and hence he was unable to recognize Stalin's cunning and his shrewd manipulative behavior and ultimately Stalin won out in this power struggle and Trotsky was exiled and then later assassinated by men that Stalin sent to Mexico to kill him. Now of course when it comes now to Snowball, so that's important to contextual information, the first thing to remember is how he is described in contrast to Napoleon, he is described as a more vivacious pig, so in the novella it states, Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon. Now the word level analysis you want to do here which obviously shows just how vibrant and just how easy he was in terms of relating to all the other animals, are the adjectives and of course this is a comparative adjective, more than. So more vivacious which obviously it shows him as a direct contrast to Napoleon and really early on what this does is it shows the key differences that both Napoleon and Snowball have and of course Napoleon is a foil to Snowball or actually you could say vice versa right, Snowball's character is a foil to Napoleon. Do you remember what foil means is when one character is used by the writer to show the shortcomings of another character okay, so Snowball is Napoleon's foil so he shows the shortcomings that Napoleon doesn't have, he's very relatable, he's very eloquent, he's also very very intelligent okay. The second word level analysis you want to do is the maxim, the rule that he comes up with and of course he teaches this to the other animals and he realises that of course whilst the other animals he really wants them to get educated, the pigs are the most intelligent and they're very educated, however he then realises that the animals such as the horses, the chicken, the sheep they're not able to remember very complex details so he sums up the principles of animalism in this maxim. He writes four legs good comma two legs bad okay, so this is the maxim that all the animals are told to remember, humans are bad right, two legs and of course this is referring to Farmer Jones and his men have now been banished whilst any animals which have four legs and of course animals maybe which also have wings on their back they are good, they are your allies okay, this sums up that idea of animalism. Now the word level analysis you want to do for this is the oxymoron good versus bad and of course he really simplifies this for the animals especially for the animals who are not able to really understand more complex ideas. The third quotation for Snowballs character to bear in mind is when he's talking to Molly. Remember Molly is the only horse on the farm that really loved being around Farmer Jones because he used to give her sugar, he used to make all these pretty ribbons for her mane and she now misses that she's unable ultimately to keep up with the hard labor of being on an animal run farm so she ends up running away okay and here this is what Snowball tries to teach her he says comrade said Snowball those ribbons ellipses are the badge of slavery can you not understand that liberty is worth more than the ribbons okay so he's trying to explain to Molly that even if she's used to getting sugar all of these really pretty forms of ribbons from the humans these are used as a form of control for her these like luxuries are used by the humans to control her but she's unable to recognize this. Context you do bear in mind that Molly so do remember that of course the animal farm revolution reflects and mimics the Russian revolution which happened in 1917 when the Tsar so Tsar Nicholas was overthrown and of course communism was instituted by Lenin and Stalin as well as Trotsky and of course the Russian gods and the USSR became the USSR's note today bear in mind that under the Tsar there was the middle and upper class known as the bourgeoisie. Molly represents contextually this bourgeoisie the middle and upper class who their lives under the Tsar was not that difficult so under Tsar Nicholas the lives for the vast majority of working class peasants was very very difficult indeed however Molly represents the middle and the upper class whose lives were actually relatively nice and thus these middle and upper class people once the Russian revolution happened and their property was confiscated they fled the country they wanted the old order back okay now these luxuries that the middle class bourgeoisie and the upper class bourgeoisie enjoyed are symbolized in the novella through ribbons and when you're doing word-level analysis here you want to focus on the repetition of ribbons which are symbols of luxuries okay on the animal farm which Molly misses. The other word-level analysis you want to do here is the hyperbole when Snowball asserts to Molly these ribbons are the badge of slavery so of course this is hyperbole however this hyperbole does show that this is the tool that pharmajones used to control you and to get work and labor out of you and to just placate you to make you say no even if I work really hard it's okay I get ribbons and I get these little small remords. The final word-level analysis you want to do here is the abstract noun liberty which for Snowball is far more important than anything else liberty is worth the hard work it's worth giving up these luxuries for and of course going back contextually a lot of the middle class and upper class really enjoyed some of the liberties a little rather some of the rewards and the luxuries that they got from being under the Tsar however what Lenin and what Trotsky was trying to show them is actually the freedom that you get under communism is worth more than some of the little luxuries that you got during Tsar Nicholas's rule a lot of middle class people didn't agree with that and they ended up fleeing and running away from Russia after the revolution. The other quotation for Snowball's character is Snowball ellipsis gave the signal for the charge he himself charged straight for Jones and of course this is a quotation taken from the battle of Kauschen this is when pharmajones and his men try to come back and take over the the farm again and to make it under human control of course Snowball leads the charge this is in contrast Napoleon who mysteriously disappears okay and what this shows is in contrast Napoleon who's only focused on self-preservation only on looking after himself it doesn't really care about the principles of animalism Snowball is the direct opposite he really cares about protecting the principles of animalism and also he's so invested that he's willing to lose his life for it okay he's the one that leads the charge contextually you want to remember that Trotsky was similarly very committed to the principles of communism and also he was known as a real military strategist so he led the Red Army and he personally was very much involved in a lot of the battles that the Red Army fought in order to advance the ideas of communism now the word level analysis you want to do here with Snowball's character is firstly sibilance a snowball signal and of course the pronouns okay he and himself what this shows is that Snowball really took charge and was willing to die for the principles of animalism the final quotation to remember for Snowball's character is Snowball's plans for the windmill were fully worked out ellipsis Snowball used his study as a shed ellipsis he was closeted there for hours at a time so do bear in mind that then once the animal farm was taken over they developed a power struggle between Snowball who was really intellectual who had all of these plans and part of his plans was to try and make life easier for the animals by creating a windmill meaning that if the windmill worked perfectly as he had envisioned the animals would actually work less whilst the windmill worked more so the animals would actually have a better life Napoleon who was threatened by these really good ideas and plans was completely against the windmill until obviously snowballs kicked off and then he said no no change in my mind actually I'm for the windmill context you do bear in mind that the windmill contextually in the USSR so get back to Russia it represents Russia's drive towards modernizing its economy so Russia under the SAR so this is the King Nicholas was a very backward economy it was very underdeveloped under the communist leaders they were trying to push for economic modernization drives in order to make Russia catch up with the rest of the world economically okay so the windmill is contextually symbolizing this notion that the communists recognize Russia needs to catch up economically now the word level analysis you want to do here of course which is emphasizing how Snowball was very focused on advancing the principles of animalism he really cared about making life better for all the other animals and contrast and podium who only looked cared for himself is firstly you've got alliteration windmill so alliteration of W windmill and worked and of course you've got sibilance snowball study and shed okay and what this of course shows is that snowball was a real intellectual he was very much not only was he intellectually gifted and he was able to really think far ahead into the future and come up with these very elaborate plans and work very hard for it on the other hand he wasn't just a thinker he was also a doer as the previous quotation shows he was also willing to fight okay so he was in many ways almost the perfect leader however what he lacked was the cunning and the shrewdness to see through Napoleon and of course then that therefore means Napoleon was able to out with him okay so this is the quotation to remember when it comes to snowballs character and the word level analysis to do when looking at key quotations for his character