Who Does Benjamin In Animal Farm Represent In The Russian Revolution

Characters

The characters in Animate being farm can be split into 3 groups - the humans, the pigs, and the other farm animals. Each grouping represents a unlike element of the Russian Revolution in 1917.

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Benjamin in Animal Subcontract

Still of Benjamin the donkey looking shocked, from the 1954 film

Benjamin is a pessimistic donkey

Benjamin is an old and pessimistic donkey . No one on the farm knows exactly how old he is just it is hinted that he has been around for a very long time. He is never enthusiastic when things get well for the animals; likewise, he is never surprised or upset when things get wrong. He often gives vague answers. Some might say that he is a realist.

He is shut friends with Boxer and plans to spend his retirement with him. He calls all the other animals to assistance when Boxer is being taken away by the equus caballus slaughterer.

	How is Benjamin like this?	Evidence from the text	Assay
Vague	Benjamin is frequently vague with the other animals. For example, when they inquire if he is happier now Mr Jones has gone he doesn't give a directly answer .	"Donkeys alive a long time. None of y'all has ever seen a dead donkey."	Information technology is not until we have finished the novel that it becomes clear that Benjamin has seen rebellions come and get in the by and he knows that the happiness they feel after the Rebellion volition be brusque-lived. His comment that they have never seen a 'dead ass' is a hint that he has seen similar events in the by and and so he is not every bit excited as the other animals .
Pessimistic	Benjamin's responses are often negative, he doesn't share in the enthusiasm of the other animals even in their victories.	He said, life would proceed as information technology always had gone on - that is, badly.	Benjamin's suggestion that life 'always' goes on 'desperately' reveals that he has a pessimistic view on life, he does not encounter the Rebellion, the windmill or victories in battle as beingness positive things – he sees them as struggles .
Realistic	In the end, information technology turns out that Benjamin was right to exist so negative about the Rebellion. Although weather seemed better initially – they soon went dorsum to 'normal'. Benjamin was not negative, just realistic .	Only old Benjamin professed to retrieve every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could exist much better or much worse – hunger, hardship, and disappointment existence, so he said, the unalterable law of life.	By this point in the novel it becomes clear that Benjamin was realistic when he was negative about the Rebellion . He is right to believe that things will never alter, they are 'unalterable' this explains his mental attitude toward the changes on the subcontract and why he is never as enthusiastic as the other animals.