KQ: What is an allegory?
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KQ: What is an allegory?
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KQ: What is an allegory?. Spot the Difference…. The Seven Commandments Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend No animal shall wear clothes No animal shall sleep in a bed No animal shall drink alcohol - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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KQ: What is an allegory?
Spot the Difference…
The Seven Commandments
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
KQ: Can you rewrite the past?
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who
controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell, 1984
Massacre of the Innocents, Pieter Bruegel the ElderThis painting
represents the killing of innocent children
when King Herod learned the son of
God had been born and would take
power from him.
Yet there are no dead
bodies…
only sacks of grain, food
parcels and
animals…
How strange…
Philip II had the
images of massacred
children painted
out
…
It reminded him and others of how he
had brutally
supressed the Dutch
people.
Can you see the
child’s feet
behind the
goat?
KQ: What happens when you achieve too much power?
Find at least one fact about the following:
1) The Gulags
2) The Great Purge / Stalinist terror
3) Soviet propaganda
KQ: What is Propaganda?
KQ: How has the Dream changed?
Dream:
Reality:
KQ: What key image or symbol would we
use to represent
this novel?
