Book Character

Napoleon is a fictional character in George Orwell's Animal Farm. While he is at first a common farm pig, he takes advantage of the animals' uprising against their masters to eventually become the tyrannical "President of Animal Farm," which he turns into a...

Snowball is a fictional pig in the book Animal Farm written by George Orwell. Together with the pig Napoleon, Snowball leads the animals' revolt against the human farmer, but is driven away from the farm (a comparison to the Russian government) by his former comrade...

Squealer is a fictional pig from George Orwell's Animal Farm, primarily inspired by Joseph Stalin's aide Vyacheslav Molotov also figuratively as propaganda. In the allegorical form chosen by Orwell for Animal Farm, the pigs are easily identified with the Soviet...

Boxer is a fiction horse from George Orwell's Animal Farm, he is the farm's most hard-working and loyal worker. He serves as an allegory for the Russian working class who helped oust the Czar and establish the Soviet Union, but were eventually betrayed by the...

Old Major (also called Willingdon Beauty, his show name) is the first major character described by George Orwell in Animal Farm. This "purebred" of pigs is the kind, grandfatherly philosopher of change; an obvious metaphor for Karl Marx, though some elements of Old...

Mr. Pilkington of Foxwood Farm is a human character in George Orwell's satirical book Animal Farm. Mr. Pilkington has a more unkept farm, and is on bad terms with Mr. Frederick of Pinchfield Farm, whose farm is on the opposite side of Animal Farm. Mr. Pilkington at...

In George Orwell's novel Animal Farm, Benjamin is a donkey that represents the aged population of Russia. It has also been suggested that he represents the Menshevik intelligentsia: as intelligent, if not more so, than the novel's pigs. He is very cynical about the...

Mr. Jones of Manor Farm was a human character in George Orwell's satirical book Animal Farm. Mr. Jones was overthrown by the animal of the farm early in the book for his harsh rule over the animals. Instigated by Old Major, the animals rebelled against Mr. Jones and...

Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut. He was originally created as a fictionalized verson of author Theodore Sturgeon (Vonnegut's colleague in the genre of science fiction), although Trout's consistent presence in Vonnegut's works has...

Robert Langdon (June 22, 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire, United States) is a fictional professor of religious iconology and symbology at Harvard University who appeared in the Dan Brown novels Angels and Demons (2000) and The Da Vinci Code (2003). He is scheduled to be...

Dudley Liam Smith (1905 - ?), is a fictional character in several novels by American novelist James Ellroy. Smith was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1905, and later immigrated to the United States, where he joined the LAPD in 1928. Smith was the clandestine protector of...

John Galt (May 2, 1779 – April 11, 1839) was a Scottish novel. Born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Galt was the son of a naval captain. When his family relocated to Malden in 1789, Galt became an apprentice and junior clerk, writing essays and stories for local journals in his...

Freeman Hagbard Celine, H.M., S.H. (Holy Man, Shit Head) is a central protagonist in the Illuminatus trilogy of books by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, named after the legendary Viking hero Hagbard who died for love. In the Schrödinger's Cat trilogy, the sequel...

Yog-Sothoth (The Lurker at the Threshold, The Key and the Gate, The Beyond One, Opener of the Way, The All-in-One and the One-in-All) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos and the Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft. Yog-Sothoth's name was first mentioned in his...