Snowball ( Animal Farm ) - wikipedia Snowball ( Animal Farm ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( January 2017 ) Snowball First appearance Animal Farm Last appearance Animal Farm ( only appearance ) Created by George Orwell Voiced by Maurice Denham ( 1954 film ) Kelsey Grammer ( 1999 film ) Information Species Pig Gender Male Occupation Past leader of Animal Farm Snowball is a character in George Orwell 's Animal Farm. He is largely based on Leon Trotsky and describes how he led the opposition against Joseph Stalin ( Napoleon ), though he also includes elements of Vladimir Lenin. He is shown as a pink pig on the movie poster for the 1999 film Animal Farm, and is voiced by Kelsey Grammer. Snowball 's ideas Snowball believes in a continued revolution : he argues that in order to defend Animal Farm, he must strengthen the reality of Old Major 's dream of a life without humans and that they must stir up rebellions in other farms throughout England. However, Napoleon always disagrees with any ideas that Snowball has because he does not want Snowball to lead Animal Farm and gain more popularity than himself. Snowball also writes the first version of the Seven Commandments. They are later altered by Squealer under the orders of Napoleon, to accommodate the actions of the pigs. For example, the commandment stating `` No animal shall drink alcohol '' is changed to `` No animal shall drink alcohol to excess '', and that which states `` No animal shall sleep in a bed '' is changed to `` No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets ''. Later all the commandments are replaced with one phrase : `` All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others ''. Snowball is eventually forced out of the farm when Napoleon uses his guard dogs to attack Snowball. After that, he is blamed for problems on the farm, and it is believed he was in support of Jones from the start as well as 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 pig who influences others to his side with intelligence and compassion. It is never revealed what happens to him after his escape. In the 1954 animated adaptation it is implied that the dogs kill him. However, 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 When the novel Animal Farm was adapted for screen in the 1950s, the CIA investors were initially greatly concerned that Snowball was presented too sympathetically in early script treatments and that Batchelor 's script implied Snowball was `` intelligent, dynamic, courageous ''. A memo declared that Snowball must be presented as a `` fanatic intellectual whose plans if carried through would have led to disaster no less complete than under Napoleon. '' De Rochemont subsequently implemented these changes. References Jump up ^ Orwell Subverted : The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm, pp. 75 -- 79 George Orwell 's Animal Farm ( 1945 ) Characters Old Major Napoleon Snowball Squealer Boxer Benjamin Pilkington Mr. Jones Concepts Anthems Other media 1954 film 1999 film Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Snowball_(Animal_Farm)&oldid=838727503 '' Categories : Fictional politicians Animal Farm characters Cultural depictions of Leon Trotsky Fictional characters introduced in 1945 Fictional revolutionaries Fictional pigs Fictional characters based on real people Pigs in literature Male characters in literature Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from January 2017 All articles needing additional references Talk About Wikipedia Español Simple English Edit links This page was last edited on 28 April 2018, at 22 : 54. About Wikipedia

Question: who is leon trotsky in the animal farm
Answer: Snowball