Ants (The Grasshopper and the Ants)

The Ants are characters from the 1934 Silly Symphony short The Grasshopper and the Ants.
==Background==
===Personality===
The ants are shown to be hard-working insects who work together to gather food for the winter. Obeyed by their ruler, the Queen Ant (voiced by Dorothy Compton), they are shown to follow their ruler's orders so they can be punctual and cooperative in gathering food for the winter as a means of survival. However, obstacles they can face are distractions whenever they are at work such as the case when the Grasshopper, which the Queen is strict about her fellow ants being distracted at work. During the winter, they feast on the food they collected after their hard work. However, when they even cared for the Grasshopper, which he was begging them to give him a second chance, they even agreed to accept him for this.
==Appearances==
===The Grasshopper and the Ants===
The ants are first seen gathering food for the winter just before the winter arrives doing various methods of collecting resources for their colony, while the Grasshopper laughs and approaches an ant who sings to him "The World Owes Me a Living" by telling him that there is food on every tree, not seeing a reason to work. The lone ant becomes distracted when he dances with the Grasshopper. Later, an army of ants lead by the Queen Ant arrives where she approaches the lone ant who is furious of his distraction, telling him to get back to work. The Queen Ant becomes furious of the Grasshopper, warning him that the more he continues to cause problems like that, the more there will be no food for the ants. The Grasshopper offers her to dance, but she refuses as she walks away.
As the winter comes, the ants are feasting on the food they gathered during the past autumn as the Grasshopper has no food to find for the winter. As they see the Grasshopper who is feeling cold during the winter, they even managed to help keep him warm during the winter while the Queen Ant approaches him, furious of what he did the past autumn. The Grasshopper begs her not to banish him, giving him another chance so he can be here, which she replies that only the workers ants who stay may play, giving him his fiddle. Just before the Grasshopper could leave, the Queen Ant tells him to play a tune for her colony, making the Grasshopper happy once more. When the Grasshopper happily plays the tune, the ants continue to happily dance altogether, which the Grasshopper acknowledges that the ants were right.
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