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Character in George Orwell's 1945 novel Brute Farm

Snowball
First appearance	Animal Farm
Created by	George Orwell
Based on	Leon Trotsky
Voiced by	Maurice Denham (1954 film) Kelsey Grammar (1999 film)
In-universe information
Species	Pig
Gender	Male Female (Philippines dub)
Occupation	Candidate to be the leader of Animal Farm

Snowball is a character in George Orwell'south 1945 novel Animal Subcontract. He is largely based on Leon Trotsky, who led the opposition against Joseph Stalin (Napoleon). He is shown equally a white pig on the pic poster for the 1999 film Animal Subcontract, and as a white hog in the 1954 film. Snowball is voiced by Maurice Denham and Kelsey Grammer in the 1954 and 1999 films, respectively.

Snowball'due south Ideas [edit]

Flag of Beast Farm designed by Snowball.

Snowball believes in a continued revolution: he argues that to defend Beast Subcontract, he must strengthen the reality of Sometime Major'southward dream of a life without humans and that they must stir upwards rebellions in other farms throughout England. Even so, Napoleon ever disagrees with any ideas that Snowball has because he does not desire Snowball to lead Beast Farm and gain more popularity than himself.

Snowball likewise writes the first version of the 7 Commandments. They are later contradistinct past Hog under the orders of Napoleon, to conform the deportment of the pigs. For example, the commandment stating "No animal shall drinkable alcohol" is changed to "No brute shall beverage alcohol to excess", and that which states "No animal shall sleep in a bed" has been changed to "No beast shall sleep in a bed with sheets". Some other commandment, "No creature shall impale another animal" is inverse to "No animal shall impale another creature without cause". Later all the commandments are replaced with one phrase: "All animals are equal, only some animals are more equal than others". The last alteration to the commandments is seen towards the end of the book where Benjamin (the ass) reads out the Commandments to Clover (an old cart horse).

Snowball is eventually forced out of the farm when Napoleon uses his baby-sit dogs to attack Snowball. Subsequently that, he is blamed for problems on the farm. It is believed that he was in support of Jones from the start as well every bit sowing seeds with weeds. Though he fought bravely at the Battle of the Cowshed, the facts are altered to say he openly fought for Jones and that the shot wounds are changed to wounds Napoleon inflicted on him. Those accused of supporting him are executed after being forced to confess, and a reward is offered for his capture.

Snowball is an inventive grunter who influences others to his side with intelligence and compassion. Information technology is never revealed what happens to him after his escape. In the 1954 animated accommodation it is implied that the dogs kill him. Even so, in the 1999 live-action film adaption, he is shown escaping the dogs and surviving, though Napoleon declares him banished under pain of death.

CIA-made character changes [edit]

When the novel Animate being Farm was adapted for the screen in the 1950s, the CIA investors were initially profoundly concerned that Snowball was presented besides sympathetically in early script treatments and that Batchelor'due south script unsaid Snowball was "intelligent, dynamic, mettlesome". A memo declared that Snowball must be presented as a "fanatic intellectual whose plans if carried through would have led to disaster no less consummate than nether Napoleon." De Rochemont subsequently implemented these changes.^[ane]