Benjamin (Animal Farm) simply flees Napoleon's unendurable regime with some of the other animals. (Neither event occurs in the book.) Benjamin (Animal Farm) Benjamin is a donkey in George Orwell's novel "Animal Farm". He is also the oldest of all the animals (he is alive in the last scene of the novel). He is less straightforward than most characters in the novel, and a number of interpretations have been put forward to which social class he represents as regards to the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. ("Animal Farm" is an allegory for the evolution of Communism in Russia, with each animal representing
Anthems in Animal Farm to be replaced and suppressed. The development corresponds to the historical events of 1943, when Joseph Stalin had "The Internationale", previously the anthem of the Soviet Union, replaced with a new, more patriotic national anthem. However, while "Beasts of England" was outlawed in the novel, "The Internationale" was not banned by the Soviet Union at any time and remained as the anthem of the Communist Party. "Beasts of England", the original anthem of the "Animal Farm" corresponds to the famous socialist anthem, "The Internationale", but also alludes to Shelley's "Men of England". In the book, the pig Old Major explains