English-Animal Farm
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- October Revolution
- in 1917 this Russian revolution replaced the monarchy with Lenin's communist
- Trotsky and Stalin
- two generals who vied for power in Lenin's Russia
- Education
- a theme in Animal Farm about how all members of society need to make their own educated decisions
- Symbols
- Objects/things/words that stand for larger ideas
- 20 million
- number of Russian citizens estimated killed during Stalin's reign
- SNOWBALL
- energetic, brilliant leader. He successfully organizes defense of the farm like LEON TROTSKY did with the Red Army. He is an eloquent speaker with original ideas. He is a white Boar
- BENJAMIN
- The gloomy donkey, cynical, like Eeyore from Whinnie the Pooh. Skeptical and pessimistic, but VERY loyal and dedicated to Boxer. He works hard like Boxer, however no more than is required of him. He DOES NOT believe in the Revolution, he only thinks life is too hard.
- Language/Media
- a theme in Animal Farm about how if you misinform and twist language you are abusing your power and not being a good government
- SQUEALER
- "short, fat, twinkle-eyed and nimble, a brilliant talker". VERY PERSUASIVE. He convinces the animals that all the changes are necessary for well being of them all. The PROPAGANDA machine that spreads the big lie and makes people believe in it.
- Joseph Stalin
- gained control of the Soviet Union and inspired Orwell to write political novels
- MURIEL
- The goat who reads better than Clover and often reads things like the Commandments out loud
- Meeting of men & pigs (Final Scene)
- Teheran Conference
- Rebellion against Jones
- Russian Revolution of 1917
- FARMER JONES
- drunken, negligent leader that represents the dictator, Czar, but he also stands for any government that falls due to mismanagement and corruption.
- Animal Farm
- A symbol of any human society
- Corruption
- a theme in Animal Farm about how the reasons why people form a government end up getting messed up and polluted
- MOSES
- The Raven, does not work, but tells stories about "SugarCandy Mountain, which is a heaven like place where animals go when they die. He represents the concept of organized religion, which was called the ORTHODOX Church in Russia. Communism was opposed to organized religion, Marx called it"the opiate of the people"
- Napoleon selling timber to Fredrick
- Stalin-Hitler Pact
- Fable
- a story that teaches a moral with animal and inanimate objects as characters
- Napeleon takes over Farm
- Stalin takes over Russia
- MOLLIE
- Frivolous, luxury-loving mare, CONTRASTS with Clover. SHe may represent certain Russian nobility or of a general human type. She deserted the revolution in favor of candy and attention by the humans.
- Allegory
- an extended metaphor/comparison like C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia
- Stalin
- general who gained control when Lenin died
- Russia
- Animal Farm is a thinly veiled allegory to what happened in this country
- Spanish Civil War
- Orwell's experiences here helped him relate to the socialist cause
- NAPOLEON
- "large, fierce looking, black Berkshire Boar, with a reputation for getting his own way" He gets his way through POWER, not ideas. Napoleon represents JOSEPH STALIN because he was a dictator. (Napoleon Bonaparte was another dictator who creaed his own personal empire in the French Revolution)
- WHYMPER
- a commercial-go-between or animals and humans, for profit, like certain capitalists have always transacted business with Communist nations.
- THE DOGS
- Napoleon's Secret Police, used to terroize his own people a way to maintain control.
- Battle of the Windmill
- Battle of Stalin Grad (German Invasion of Russia)
- Communism
- a socialist utopia based off of Karl Marx's Das Kapitol
- Battle of the Cowshed
- Anti-Revolutionary Invasion of Russia (WW II)
- BOXER and CLOVER
- Represent the long suffering workers and peasants of the world. The are shown by Orwell to be big, strong, patient and decent-however not very bright. Boxer believes in the revolution: "Napoleon is always right"; while Clover is a motherly protective figure who experiences the sadness of the failed revolution
- THE SHEEP
- The stupid sheep keep bleating away any slogan the pigs teach them. They represent the masses of uneducated people.
- The Windmill
- A symbol in Animal Farm that represents how the people in power exploit others for their own gain
- George Orwell
- author of Animal Farm and 1984
- Building of the Windmill
- Five Year Plan
- Forced Confessions & Executions
- Great Purge
- THE PIGOENS
- Spread the word of the Rebellion beyond the farm, like many Communits spread the doctine of the revolution beyond the boundaries of the Soviet Union.
- PILKINGTON
- likes hunting and fishing better than farming, may represent ORWELL's view of the British gentleman- and of the nations of FRANCE and BRITAIN who were allies at the time.
- OLD MAJOR
- His role compares to that of Karl Marx, whose ideas set the Communist Revolution in motion
- Trotsky
- guy who Stalin has killed and who was blaimed for all of Russia's problems
- Adolf Hitler
- gained control of Germany and inspired Orwell to write political novels
- Class Differences
- a theme in Animal Farm about how no matter what the rich class and the worker class will fight
- lower-upper-middle class
- social level that allowed Orwell to attend a rich school but not feel rich enough
- Satire
- a way to make fun of human weaknesses. An example is SNL, Southpark, The Dailyshow, the Soup
- The Barn
- A symbol in Animal Farm that represents whoever is in power writes the "truth" of the past
- FREDERICK
- The cruel Frederick represents GERMANY
- Eric Blair
- real name of George Orwell