Benjamin (Animal Farm) 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 a different social class, e.g. Boxer represents the working class.) Benjamin also represents the old people of
Josiah Wood Whymper Matterhorn in 1865 and engraved the illustrations for Howard Willoughby's "Australian Pictures" (1886). Other sons were Frederick Whymper (1838–1901), an artist and explorer, and Charles H. Whymper (1853–1941), who provided illustrations for books on travel, sport and natural history, including an edition of William Yarrell's "A History of British Birds" (1871–89) and the "Birds of Egypt" (1909). Toward the end of his life he lived in Haslemere in Surrey, where he died in 1903. Examples of Whymper's work may be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Josiah Wood Whymper Josiah Wood Whymper (Ipswich 24 April 1813 – 7