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…showed last 75 words of 1151 total…historical figures Stalin, Trotsky, Marx, and the Russian population are directly portrayed as the animal characters of Napoleon, Snowball, Old Major, and Benjamin. The novel is, as was previously stated, a comparison to actual historical fact. When George Orwell wrote the novel Animal Farm, he wrote it as a satire. He chose animals to portray the figures in the novel to show how people can sometimes become a little animalistic when involved in a revolution.