Characters & Russian Revolution Parallels
Who represents the Proletariats - working class of the Soviet Union?
Boxer
Definition: an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
Utopia
Whose speech inspire's the rebellion and 7 Commandments?
Old Major
Who do the pigs blame the destruction of the windmill on?
Snowball
What does the quote tell us about the sheep? In other words, what is generally know about sheep that is played upon here...
At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. He was especially successful with the sheep. Of late the sheep had taken to bleating ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’…and often interrupted…at crucial moments in Snowball’s speeches”
- The sheep are followers.
- They are easily manipulated by Napoleon
- They are used to cause confusion
Who are the Bourgeoisie? And who represents the Bourgeoisie?
Bourgoise - the superficial citizens who preferred life before the rebellion
Mollie
Definition: Has a surface level meaning and deeper level meaning represented by symbols
Allegory
Who naturally becomes the organizers of the rebellion due to their cleverness?
The pigs
What is the first Commandment the pigs change and why?
No animals shall sleep in bed "with sheets"
The pigs start sleeping in beds
“Nevertheless, [Mr. Pilkington and Mr. Frederick] were both thoroughly frightened by the rebellion on Animal Farm, and very anxious to prevent their own animals from learning too much about it.”
The quote represents the...
Red Scare
Who are the KGB? Who were they represented by?
A group of Soviet police trained to track down read and potential lawbreakers
Represented by Napoleon’s dogs.
Definition: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Satire
Which two pigs take the lead at making resolutions for the farm? (Also the same two pigs in the election/vote)
Napoleon & Snowball
What is the real reason “Beast of England” is replaced?
The rebellion didn’t end up the way they had envisioned, Squealer and Napoleon don’t want the animals reminded of their original goal
What does this quote by Clover represent or show us about Animal Farm?
“If she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago…”
Clover doesn’t have freedom of speech under Napoleon and is afraid of execution
Old Major is similar to _____ because...
The theories of Animalism & ________ both believe that...
Old Major is similar to Karl Marx because he has a dream of equality for classes that is later used to form a revolution
Communism both believe that there is no distinct class system, so everyone is equal and works to his or her capacity
Definition: a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
Totalitarianism
What leads to the Battle of the Cowshed?
The farmers’ fear of more animal rebellions
Who do Frederick and Foxwood farms represent?
Find a quote in the book that would prove this.
Hitler & Germany
“Terrible stories were leaking out…about the cruelties that Frederick practiced upon his animals. He had flogged an old horse to death, he starved his cows, he had killed a dog by throwing it into the furnace…”
What is the significance of the closing line of Animal Farm, "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which" ?
The animals have lost the ability to discern who is a friend and who is a foe by trading one tyrant for another.
Napoleon is like _____ in that he ... (list at least 2 similarities)
- Gains power through propaganda
- Uses the blind trust of the people
- Is not a great speaker
- Bullies & Manipulates
- Is corrupt by power
Definition: information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Propaganda
List at least 3 ways Napoleon establishes himself as Leader of a Totalitarian System in Chapter 5.
- Trains & Brainwashes the puppys to be his guards
- Exiles Snowball
- Educates the Sheep to be his followers
- Uses fear tactics with the dogs and warnings that Jones might come back
- He takes away Sunday-morning Meetings and debates
- Creates a council of pigs to make all decisions on the farm
At the pigs’ party, the humans compare the lower, less intelligent animals to…
Lower classes
Identify at least 1 tactic Squealer uses to convince the animals - "Comrades!" he cried. "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades," cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and whisking his tail, "surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?"
Fear Tactics
Fabricated Statistics
Rhetorical Questions
Testimony