animal farm intensive reading high school ms. coro
DESCRIPTION
The Novel Published in 1945; heavily influenced by his experiences of the Spanish Civil War, and WWII. Genre: political satire / allegory characters or events in a literary, visual, or musical art form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts. Penname: used to hide his identity while working as journalist. Other famous works: 1984, and Homage to Catalonia.TRANSCRIPT
Animal FarmIntensive Reading
High SchoolMs. Coro
Meet the Author
• Penname: George Orwell• Birth name: Eric Blair, worked
as a journalist and essayist. • Born 25 June 1903 in India;
Died 21 January 1950, London England
• Fought in the Spanish Civil War, on the side of the communists.
• Worked as an intelligence officer during WWII.
The Novel
• Published in 1945; heavily influenced by his experiences of the Spanish Civil War, and WWII.
• Genre: political satire / allegory characters or events in a literary, visual, or musical art form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts.
• Penname: used to hide his identity while working as journalist.
• Other famous works: 1984, and Homage to Catalonia.
Themes and motifs
• Socialism• Communism• State control• Propaganda • Cult of Personality • Secret Police
Russian Revolution
• 1917 the Russian people overthrow the royal family, Tsar Nicholas II is executed. “October Revolution.”
• Vladimir Lenin leads the Revolution, along with his followers called “Bolsheviks”; Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky are among them.
• Install a communist government based off the teachings of Karl Marx.
• Lenin calls for the Russians to stay out of WWI; Civil war breaks out.
Communism / Socialism
• Communism: economic system founded by Karl Marx; common ownership of the means of production, and the absence of social class, money or the state.
• Socialism: ideological and political movement; based on both market and non-market forms. May refer to citizen ownership or cooperative ownership or any combination of them.
Allegorical Characters
• Boxer / Naive working class
• Napoleon / Joseph Stalin• Snowball / Leon Trotsky• Squealer / Pravda or
Propaganda• Old Major / Vladimir
Lenin or Karl Marx
• Mr. Jones / Tsar Nicholas II
• Mr. Fredrick / Adolf Hitler
• Mr. Pilkington / England or Winston Churchill
• Mr. Whymper / Neutral countries
Joseph Stalin Karl Marx Vladimir Lenin Winston Churchill
Tsar Nicholas II Adolf Hitler Leon Trotsky
Animalism
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.3. No animal shall wear clothes.4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.5. No animal shall drink alcohol.6. No animal shall kill any other animal.7. All animals are equal.