Is Mollie From Animal Farm a Main or Secondary Character A gentle, motherly, and powerful carthorse. She supports the revolution, as she naturally takes it upon herself to protect those weaker than she is, and she recognizes this kind of communal spirit echoed in the 7 Commandments. When Animal Farm begins to descend into a totalitarian land under Napoleon , however, Clover becomes dismayed—but she doesn't have the will, personality, or education to resist the pigs. Clover never becomes fully literate and only learns the alphabet, and so she's unable to detect changes to the 7 Commandments and buys into everything the pigs say. In this sense, she becomes a witness to the corruption, though she just vaguely understands that something went wrong—but still believes that the totalitarian state she finds herself living in must be meliorate than life nether Mr.