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'Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon quicker in
speech and more inventive but was not considered to have the
same depth of character.'
Snowball may also be seen as the most 'intellectual'of the
animals - he is the best at writing he explains the more
abstract ideas of Animalism to the others and he is the
designer of the Farm Flag.

Although Snowball's interest in bettering the education of the
other animals seems to be genuine his ideas are often
impractical and fail for that reason.
For instance he organises several useless Committees such as
the Egg Production Committe and the Clean Tail League.
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Snowball's other great dream of course is the windmill.
In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it
might be when sordid labour was lifted from the animals' backs.
Although the windmill is finally costructed it will never
fulfil Snowball's idealistic dreams.

However Snowball's ability to design the windmill does prove
his intelligence as do the brilliant tactics he devises for the
Battle of the Cowshed.
There is also no doubt that Snowball is brave as he leads the
charge against Jones at the Battle of the Cowshed although this
achievement is later discredited and denied by Squealer and
Napoleon.
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Snowball can easily be identified with the historical figure of
Leon Trotsky.
Trotsky was one of the early leaders of the Russian Revolution.
Like Snowball Trotsky was an intellectual and a clever military
tactician.
Also like Snowball he was exiled from his country by a ruthless
leader (Stalin) and later used as a scapegoat.
Trotsky was eventually killed in 1946.

In more general terms Snowball represents the idealistic
'thinkers' of a revolution whose praiseworthy ideas usually fail
for practical reasons and who cannot defend themselves against
their more unscrupulous colleagues.