Why is animal farm satirical and the major villain ?

Animal Farm is written as a political satire...... an awarement piece for those who were oblivious to what was happening in Russia at the time. Orwell used satire to comminicate his own feelings on the problem and possible solutions.

gradesaver has a complete page of character analysis already to help you in their study guide for this unit. The page is linked directly below.

http://www.gradesaver.com/animal-farm/study-guide/character-list/