Animal Farm Throughout the novel‚ the pigs manipulate their superiority towards other animals using trickery and education to justify their behavior and actions. Based on the rationale that the pigs were the self-proclaimed “brains of the farm”‚ they thought they had the right to reside inside the farmhouse. Despite the skepticism of the other animals‚ Squealer manages to persuade them that everything they were doing was within the constitution that they had set forth. The original constitution
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Animal Farm (Synopsis) Animal farm was writing and published just as the cold war began to start. But the events in the book represent the time between 1917 and 1943‚ and the characters symbolize individuals in Russia at that time period. For example Napoleon (one of the pigs) represents Joseph Stalin who was the second leader for the Soviet Union he helped make it in to a superpower. Napoleon took control of the farm after Old Major passed away. Old Major portrays Karl Marx who was
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Following is an excerpt from a letter from George Orwell to Dwight Macdonald‚ written in December 1946‚ soon after the publication of Animal Farm in the US. According to the editor of the letters‚ Peter Davison‚ who also supplied the footnotes‚ Macdonald wrote Orwell that anti-Stalinist intellectuals of his acquaintance claimed that the parable of Animal Farm meant that revolution always ended badly for the underdog‚ “hence to hell with it and hail the status quo.” He himself read the book as
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regarded by the other animals. He began the whole idea of the revolution. * Boxer was a huge‚ strong horse‚ not very smart but of good character. Clover was a motherly‚ middle-aged mare. * Benjamin was a donkey‚ the oldest animal on the farm. He was skeptical‚ cynical‚ and never laughed. Also‚ he was friends with Boxer. * Mollie was a "foolish‚ pretty white mare" who liked sugar and pretty ribbons. 2. For what purpose did Major call the meeting of the animals? He wanted to tell them
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Animal Farm George Orwell Submitted By: Ryan Jay Enclona H3-Justice Submitted To: Ms. Aila Velasquez Table of Contents I. Biography of the Author………………………………………………….………1 II. Background of the Story………………………………………………………….2 III. Characters (Tell me about the characters in the book. You are to include their role in the book‚ a physical description of their appearance and a description of their personality) IV. Setting (*Describe the setting in detail. *Be as specific as possible
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Animal Farm Parallels In the book Animal Farm‚ George Orwell uses animals to symbolically represent humans and man’s creation of government and society. Orwell allegorically uses animals and their social groups to criticize Joseph Stalin’s rise to power‚ the overall nature of mankind‚ and the many difficulties that people must face in life. In the story there are many parallels that symbolically represents situations from the Russian Revolution. Some of the parallels are Trotsky to Snowball‚the different ideology and dislike
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below‚ with a river running through it‚ was the busy town center of Morningsong‚ where merchants and shopkeepers‚ the blacksmith‚ and the laborers lived‚ in small bungalows and thatched huts. On the outskirts of town were the large farms and open spaces‚ where food and animals were raised and and cared for‚ mostly by peasants and families that had worked the land for many years before the Zinns had inherited the kingdom‚ and brought their ideas of a different sort of life to the place. A few elders
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ANIMAL FARM-IOP Call it a satire‚a beast fable or an anthropomorphic‚allegorical tale‚animal farm is the story of a revolution gone sour.Written in the twentieth century by George Orwell‚it mirrors the drawbacks of a totalitarian regime.Old major and the animals dream of an idealistic society built on the foundations of a utopian vision however; ironically‚ their dream begins to disintegrate because the ruling oligarchy of pigs become avaricious and power hungry‚when appointed the responsibility
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windmill is used for milling corn. All animals continue lives of hard work and little food — except the pigs. The pigs begin to walk on hind legs‚ carrying a whip‚ and eventually wearing clothes. The sheep begin to bleat "Four legs good‚ two legs better!" The wall has been repainted to "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL / BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS." Later‚ the neighboring farmers are given a tour‚ and stayed for dinner. Mr. Pilkington makes a toast to Animal Farm and its efficiency. Napoleon outlined
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