MISCELLANEOUS
This is an appeal to ethics, credibility and authority.
Ethos
Napoleon
Based on Leon Trotsky, he is organized and considerate. He challenges Napoleon and ultimately fails.
Snowball
These are the animals that represent the police force on the farm.
The dogs.
This animal symbolizes the philosophical vision of the rebellion.
Old Major
This is the use of symbols to provide deeper meaning.
Symbolism.
A figure of speech in which a thing - an idea or animal - is given human-like characteristics.
Personification
Rhetoric
He is an animal of great strength, loyalty and dedication.
Boxer
Based on Hitler, he proves cruel and untrustworthy.
Frederick
This animal is blamed for everything that goes wrong on the farm.
Snowball
The pigs were the natural leaders after the rebellion because they are this.
Clever
This is when someone says one thing, but means something else entirely (sarcasm).
Verbal Irony
This is when the audience knows something that the characters don’t.
Dramatic irony
The humans compare the "other" animals to these people in their society.
The lower class
Squealer
A sweet female horse who often suspects the pigs of violating the rules, but can't be sure.
Clover
Out of the Hen Rebellion, the Battle of the Cowshed and the Windmill Rebellion, this is the one that happened first.
The Battle of the Cowshed.
These two characters keep going back to reread the commandments.
Clover and Muriel
The attitude of a writer towards a subject or an audience.
Tone
A work that ridicules its subject through the use of techniques such as exaggeration, reversal, incongruity, and/or parody in order to make a comment or criticism about it.
Satire
These are the major differences - personality and priority wise - between Napoleon and Snowball.
Napoleon - ambitious, cruel, power-hungry, relentless, liar, etc.
Wants to focus on defense (military) and propaganda (mind control)
Snowball - organized, thorough, a good listener, empathetic
Wants to focus on the windmill so that the lives of animals are easier/better
Mollie
The lawyer Napoleon hires to represent the animals in society.
Whymper
This animal represents the superficial citizens who fled Russia after the revolution.
Mollie
This is the reason "Beast of England" was abolished. (DING BELL 1)
The rebellion didn't end up quite the way they wanted, so Squealer and Napoleon don't want the animals reminded of their original goal.
A typical character, an action, or a situation that seems to represent universal patterns of human nature. A “universal symbol.”
Archetype
The tendency for people’s behavior or beliefs to conform to others.
Herd Mentality
This is what the Windmill represented to the humans, the animals and to Napoleon.
Humans - amazing feat for animals, jealous
Animals - purpose, hope for future and better life
Napolean - way to make money
Based on Karl Marx, his dream of a socialist utopia motivates the rebellion.
Old Major
The poet pig who writes songs and poems about Napoleon.
Minimus
Animal Farm was written as a combination of these three different literary terms. (DING BELL 3)
Allegory, fable and satire.
1 - Napoleon brainwashed them
2 - They wanted out
3 - They were forced to
A statement that contradicts itself and still seems true somehow.
Paradox
False news stories, often of a sensational nature, created to be widely shared for the purpose of money or promoting/discrediting a public figure, political movement, etc.
Fake news