CHAPTER-2

 Two animals that fluster Snowball - Mollie's concern over sugar and ribbons is
offensive to Snowball because he (as a proponent of Animalism) urges his fellow
beasts to sacrifice their luxuries. To him, Mollie is a shallow materialist, concerned
only with her own image and comforts. Like Mollie, Moses proves irksome to
Snowball because Moses fills the heads of the animals with tales of Sugarcandy
Mountain.
 Squealer: Napolean’s Minister of Propoganda - His habit of "skipping from side
to side" while arguing "some difficult point" dramatizes, in a physical way, what the
smooth-talking pig will later do in a rhetorical sense: Every time he is faced with a
question or objection, he will "skip" around the topic, using convoluted logic to prove
his point. In short, he eventually serves as Napoleon's Minister of Propaganda.

Moses: A religious figure - The fact that the animals are so willing to believe Moses’

idea of Sugarcandy Mountain reveals their wish for a utopia that (in the sky or on the

farm) will never be found. Thus, Moses is the novel's "religious figure," but in a strictly

ironic sense, since Orwell never implies that Moses' stories better the animals'

condition. As Karl Marx famously said, "Religion … is the opium of the people" — an

idea shown in the animals' acceptance of Moses' tales.