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Animal FarmIntensive Reading
High SchoolMs. Coro
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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.
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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.
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Themes and motifs
• Socialism• Communism• State control• Propaganda • Cult of Personality • Secret Police
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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.
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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.
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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
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Joseph Stalin Karl Marx Vladimir Lenin Winston Churchill
Tsar Nicholas II Adolf Hitler Leon Trotsky
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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.