The commandments
What is the first commandment?
Get it right and remove 100 points from any team, and you get 100.
"Now comrades, what is this nature of this life of ours? Let's face it, our lives are miserable, laborious and short."
Old Major
"It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in. It was also more suited to the dignity of the Leader (for of late he had taken to speaking of Napoleon under the title of “Leader”) to live in a house than in a mere sty."
Animal Farm. Chapter 6. Squealer justifying the pigs’ move from the sty into the farmhouse.
Who does Mr Jones resemble in history?
Jones is modeled on the last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II.
Identify and discuss the purpose of the line...
"Home is a foreign land"
PARADOX – your home is where you should feel the most comfortable.
However, the poet experiences loneliness and a feeling of being out of place
Where are the commandments written and what motto is next to it?
Seven commandments are put on the side of the barn, along with the motto, “Four legs good, two legs bad”.
Who said this and to whom?
‘We have no means of making sugar on this farm. Besides, you do not need sugar. You will have all the oats and hay you want.’
Snowball to Mollie
"The only good human being is a dead one."
Snowball to Boxer. Boxer is upset because he thinks he has killed a stable-boy. The boy is hit on the skull by one of Boxer’s iron shoes and lies motionless in the mud.
Name five types of propaganda used in Animal Farm.
Each one is 50 points...
Repetition, Lesser of two evils, Oversimplification, Scapegoating, Fear, Lying, Name Calling, Pin pointing the enemy, Selection, Card stacking, glittering generalities...
What kind of poem is "One Art"?
A Villanelle
Name 3 commandments that are changed between chapter 1 and 6
The windmill is an allegory for...
Stalin's Five Year Plans
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on – that is, badly.
Animal Farm. Chapter 5. Benjamin, who did not believe that the windmill proposed by Snowball would save work.
The following characters resemble who in history:
1) Benjamin, Boxer, Squealer, Napolean, Snowball & Mollie
Each one is 50 points, get them all right and get 200 point bonus.
1) Benjamin - older educated generation who understood what was going on but did nothing.
2) Boxer - proletariat
3) Squealer- propaganda
4) Napolean - Stalin
5) Snowball - Trotsky/Lenin
6) Mollie - Bougoise / Aristocracy
Name three intangible things the speaker has lost in One Art
Names, realms, an hour
What is the fourth commandment and how is it changed?
4.No animal shall sleep in a bed... with sheets
"Day and night we are watching over your welfare!"
Squealer
Jones was hurled into a pile of dung and his gun flew out of his hands. But the most terrifying spectacle of all was Boxer, rearing up on his hind legs and striking out with his great iron-shod hoofs like a stallion.
The Battle of the Cowshed, in which Jones and a group of men try to take back his farm. However, they don’t succeed. Snowball is hero of the hour after his military-style defense.
Who came up with the windmill idea?
Name 3 things that it would provide for the animals...
Snowball
It would provide: electricity, warmth in their stalls, run machinery, it would make their lives easier
What is the overall message of "I dream a world"
The poet dreams of a world where there is love and peace, greed has vanished, every race is equal, and no one lives with misfortune. He dreams of a world of equality and no racial discrimination, however he realizes this is just a "dream" and probably won't come true in reality.
Who said this and to whom?
"The only good human is a dead one"
Why?
Snowball to Boxer
During the battle of Cowshed, Boxer kicked a human who he thought was dead.
"It was pure imagination, probably traceable in the beginning to lies circulated by Snowball. A few animals still felt faintly doubtful, but Squealer asked them shrewdly, ‘Are you certain that this is not something that you have dreamed, comrades? Have you any record of such a resolution? Is it written down anywhere?"
Animal Farm. Chapter 6. Napoleon’s minister for propaganda, the silver-tongued Squealer, convinces the animals that a rule against trade with humans never existed. He scapegoats the expelled Snowball, whom he says spread the rumor and the lie.
Place in context (300 points) who said it (100 points) who does he symbolise in real life? (100 points)
"No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth."
Old Major calls a meeting with all animals in the barn, on the tyranny/ cruelty of man towards animals as he leads to the idea of Animalism and a rebellion. He symbolizes Karl Marx
Identify and discuss the significance of the following figure of speech from I dream a world:
"And joy, like a pearl"
Simile - The simile is used to compare the presence of joy to the joy of a pearl, it is rare and precious like a pearl. Something that is special to behold.