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Animal Farm |
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George Orwell |
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Animal Farm |
by |
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George Orwell |
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Literary Perspective | |
As Fable & Satire |
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As Allegory | |
Assignments |
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As Allegory |
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| Allegory is a story that can be read on more than one level. | |
| level one (surface) - story about animals on a farm | |
| level two - events and animals represent U.S.S.R. Bolshevik Revolution | |
Mr. Jones |
Czar Nicholas II |
Animalism |
Communism |
Old Major |
Karl Marx |
Trotsky |
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Napoleon |
Stalin |
Squealer |
Propaganda department - Lenin's gov't. |
Mollie |
Vain selfish people in Russia |
Moses |
Russian Orthodox Church |
Dogs |
Secret Police |
Frederick (cruel) |
Germany |
Pilkington (liked hunting and fishing more than farming) |
decadent British gentlemen - Britain & France |
Whymper |
capitalists who had business with community nations |
Farm |
Czarist Russia |
Battle of Cowshed |
Russian Civil War |
New policy - trade with humans |
Lenin' Economic Policy 1921-1928 |
Purge |
1934-1939 elimination of all possible opposition - thousands tried and killed by secret police |
level three - events and animals symbolize more than surface story |
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farmer Jones |
stock name (any farmer) |
Moses |
organized religion (opiate of the people) |
Boxer |
ignorant worker/follower |
Sheep |
blind followers |
Benjamin |
silent cynic |
Whymper |
capitalists more interested in money than ideals |
farm |
any government that declines through its own corruption |
Snowball |
idealist interested in good of all man |
Napoleon |
corrupt and self-serving government official |
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| Fable | moral - power corrupts |
| beasts talk and act like humans | |
| Satire | attacks ideal of revolution with humor |
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