In all of Animal Farm, there is no shortage of deceitful and otherwise unsavory characters. The greater majority of these villains revelled in their manipulative ways, and took advantage of their power at every point possible. Characters like Napoleon harshly abused the animals that trusted them, and he did so simply to make his already opulent life even more lavish. In this story there is a single character whose motives are not as clear cut as the pigs, or any other deceitful group. Moses the raven’s part in George Orwell’s Animal Farm might of been smaller, but his deceit, is unlike any other animal on Manor Farm.
The entirety of Moses’s deceit is his constant championing of “Sugarcandy Mountain.” Upon first glance his advocation of this