Animal Farm – Chapter Notes Chapter 1 Mr. Jones – Owner of Manor Farm – alcoholic Old Major – Prize Middle White Boar – calls a meeting – animals come because he is highly regarded by the other animals The animals come to meeting in following order: dogs: Bluebell‚ Jessie‚ Pincher‚ pigs‚ hens‚ pigeons‚ sheep and cows‚ two horses – Boxer and Clover‚ Muriel – white goat and Benjamin – old Donkey‚ ducklings Mollie‚ and then the Cat. All except for Moses the Raven Old Major explains he is dying
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ANIMAL FARM Book Report Animal Farm talks not only about the corruption of rebellion and revolt by its leaders but also how wickedness‚ indifference‚ ignorance and greed influence it. It illustrates immoral leadership‚ a flaw of revolution. It also depicts how ignorance and indifference to problems within a rebellion allows terrible things to happen if a smooth transition to the people’s government is unsuccessful. Old Major‚ the old boar on the Manor Farm‚ summons all the animals on 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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May 29‚ 2013 Animal Farm and V for Vendetta: A Comparison Mutually‚ Animal Farm and V for Vendetta express similar themes to each other. They both share the same concept of power and politics. Throughout Animal Farm it is shown that Napoleon‚ takes over a farm. While in V for Vendetta the Norsefire party takes over the city of London. Both of these stories portray similar themes such as power‚ danger of an uneducated class and thirdly‚ propaganda. Power in Animal Farm is used to control
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the novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding and in the film‚ Animal Farm‚ directed by John Halas and Joy Batchelor. In Lord of the Flies Jack begins as an innocent young choir boy who later on rises as a leader and turns into a vicious savage when the power goes to his head. Similarly in Animal Farm Napoleon initially promotes equality for all‚ but soon becomes corrupt and desires full power and control above all of the animals other after he gains authority. Both texts show that people will
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In the book by George Orwell‚ Animal Farm‚ was ruled by Old Major‚ who promised that all animals would be equal at some point or another‚ but that’s just what he had said. With Napoleon as the new ruler‚ everyone thinks that they are going to be just fine‚ but they aren’t. They’re starving and working long hours‚ working until they just can’t anymore. Napoleon is the ruler of Animal Farm and no one can change that. Not one animal on the farm can modify his way of ruling‚ and they have to live this
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Critical Questions: Written Assignment 1 7. In Animal Farm the author George Orwell uses animals to represent the Russian revolution. One of the differences in the novel and the two films were old major’s death. In the novel he dies of natural causes however in the movies he calls a meeting to tell all the other animals about his point of view on the rights of animals and man. He teaches them the song (their anthem) “beats of England” and mr.Jones hears them all singing in the night and to settle
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The story of Animal Farm is not just one of a group of farm animals laying eggs or eating hay. Rather‚ the tale depicts a pig’s tyrannical and abusive regime that mirrors the corrupt and terrifying government that controlled Russia during the mid-1900’s -- Stalinism. The farm functions as a tractable country that is taken under the control of Stalin’s allegorical representation‚ a pig named Napoleon. George Orwell‚ in Animal Farm‚ condemns the corrupt actions of Stalin during the Russian Revolution
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Animal Farm: Allegory of Stalinism Most directly one would say that Animal Farm is an allegory of Stalinism‚ growing out from the Russian Revolution in 1917. Because it is cast as an animal fable it gives the reader/viewer‚ some distance from the specific political events. The use of the fable form helps one to examine the certain elements of human nature which can produce a Stalin and enable him to seize power. Orwell‚ does however‚ set his fable in familiar events of current history. Old Major
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It seemed like Old Major had a great idea. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the animals on the farm could live without the tyranny of men? They could be happy‚ free‚ well fed‚ and treated with dignity. To get this‚ they would first need to overthrow the humans who own them. To succeed‚ they would have to completely become equal with one another; and most importantly‚ they could not take on human behaviors. The animals portrayed in “Animal Farm” were unable to achieve their utopian state for many
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