Names ______________________________________ Date _______________________ Period ____ Animal Farm by George Orwell Themes: ➢ Language is a powerful tool for persuasion ➢ Individuals must fight for rights and equality under the law ➢ Absolute power leads to corruption Characters: |Character |Brief Description in your own words |Quote from the text that illustrates character. Include page | |
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ANIMAL FARM Writing Assignment ASSIGNMENT In ANIMAL FARM‚ Orwell shows how both the leaders and the followers in a society can act in ways that destroy freedom and equality. Choose one leader and one follower from the novel and explain how the behavior of each contributes to the loss of freedom and equality on Animal Farm. PREWRITING Step 1 List the various leaders of Animal Farm. Looking back through the novel‚ find several examples of actions the leaders take that curtail the rights of the
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Animal Farm Character List Animal Farm is written in the form of a fable‚ and therefore its characters are often less important for their individual characteristics as for the more general types and specific historical figures they represent. While Animal Farm satirizes totalitarian regimes in general‚ it also refers more specifically to the Russian Revolution of 1917‚ and for this reason many of its characters represent specific figures from those events. Old Major: Old Major is the old pig
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and fierce looking boar. Ruled With An Iron Fist Ordered the dogs to chase Snowball from the farm so he could rule alone. Not a good speaker Used to getting his way Changes rules to benefit himself. Changes the commandments to allow drinking and more human-like behavior. Snowball Good leader. Good speaker More intelligent than Napoleon. Wants to improve conditions at the farm. Lead the animals in the rebellion against Jones to become free. Not as strong as Napoleon Young and inexperienced
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Document Type: Animal Farm Exposes Orwell’s Sexism Daphne Patai Readings on Animal Farm. San Diego‚ Calif.: Greenhaven Press‚ 1998. Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale‚ 2004. p116126. From Literature Resource Center. Critical essay Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale‚ COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale‚ Cengage Learning [(essay date 1998) In the following essay‚ originally published in 1984‚ Patai provides a feminist interpretation of Animal Farm.] Although Animal Farm is mentioned
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life-changing event‚ deception is one of the various key factors that encompass the human nomenclature. Arguably one of the most deceitful characters in recent literature Animal Farm’s Napoleon exercises the traits of deception throughout the entirety of the novel. At first the Napoleon’s intentions appear wholesome and sincere. The animal overthrows the old tyrannous government‚ establishes a collective work ethic void of any greed‚ and aims to aid all of his fellow comrades. All of which the villain
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a political satire‚ Animal Farm is a very clever allegory focusing mainly on the political leaders of pre-Soviet and Soviet Russia and also on real historical events preceding and following the Russian Revolution of 1917. One of these allegories is the allegory of the Russian Orthodox Church
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once said‚ “A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.” George Orwell throughout his novel Animal Farm demonstrates this idea. The animals represent the people in the Russian Revolution. Struggling for freedom‚ but not being able to see past the wants of their leaders. The animals and the Russian citizens don’t realize the rights that are being taken from them. Both‚ the Russians and the animals never questioned authority. In the novel Animal Farm‚ the farm comes full circle
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lot of politicians have to decide. In the literary work Animal Farm by George Orwell the animals live under a cruel ruler ‚ Jones a human‚ after the death old major the animals decided to rebel against Jones and ended driving him out of the farm. The animals faced many hardships but the animals got throughout with the thinking of the pigs. After some time the pigs started switching the commandments and taking more powers than other animals. Then Napoleon wanted to have more power and used the 9 puppies
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people into submission. George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a satirical portrayal of the Soviet Revolution‚ as there are many similarities and equivalents of characters and events between the novel and Soviet history. Whereby‚ the culture of fear existed in both and was exacerbated through the use of rhetoric. In Animal Farm‚ the pigs trap the other animals in a submission of power through the approach of propaganda and manipulation of language. Animal Farm is basically a fable on the history of Russia
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