Major, also called Willingdon Beauty during showings, is a fictional character of 1945 novella Animal Farm. A prize Middle White boar, the pig is a kind, grandfatherly philosopher of change.
Described as a first major character in the novella by George Orwell, Major is an allegory for Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, whose both influenced to Marxist-Leninist communist ideology proposed by Joseph Stalin, an allegory to Napoleon (the novella's main antagonist).
Analysis
Major proposes a solution to the animals' desperate plight on Manor Farm under the Jones administration and inspires thoughts of a rebellion. He does not specify a time for the rebellion; it could be tomorrow or several generations down the road. But when he dies three days after delivering his speech, the animals immediately set to work on bringing about the rebellion,