Animal Farm 1-3 Flashcards
Old Major
Prize-winning boar
Gives a speech to the Animals on why they should rebel against the humans
Teaches the animals the Beast of England
Highly regarded on the farm
Boxer
Carthorse
Has incredible, strength, dedication, and loyalty
Hard work played a key role in the early prosperity of Animal Farm
Had a huge figure
Not very smart but respected for his steadiness of character
Don’t do much thinking for himself
Clover
Carthorse
Mother
Laborer on farm
Not very smart
Can’t do much thinking for herself
Benjamin
Donkey
Oldest member on farm
Had a horrible temper always mad and never laughed
Wasn’t inspired by the rebellion believed that life will always be miserable no matter what the change
Mollie
Horse that pulled Mr. Jones Carriage
Foolish and pretty
Craves the attention of human beings and loves being groomed and pampered.
She has a difficult time with her new life on Animal Farm, as she misses wearing ribbons in her mane and eating sugar cubes.
Snowball
Pig
One of the Leaders of the Farm
Always fighting with Napoleon
Good at speaking convinced animals that pigs needed milk
Helped write the 7 commandments
Forms Animal committees and teaches everyone to read and write
Created Flag
Wants everyone to follow the rules of Animalism
Squealer
Pig
Great speaker
Deceptive
Justifies the pigs’ monopolization of resources and spreads false statistics pointing to the farm’s success
Convinces everybody that Napoleon’s actions are for the greater good
Moses
Moses is the Joneses’ favorite pet
A clever talker who tells the animals about a mysterious country called “Sugarcandy Mountain.” One day, he says, their labor and suffering will come to an end and they’ll all live happily ever after on Sugarcandy Mountain.
Napoleon
Pig
Fights for leadership with Snowball
Not a great talker uses force to get what he wants
Reputation of getting what he wants
Intimidating
Steals milk for pigs
Wants to become the next Mr. Jones (Doesn’t follow Commandments)
Why did Major call the meeting in Chapter 1?
Believes he was about to die so wanted to share his dream of rebellion and a world with no humans were animals could have a better life.
What are the main points of Major’s speech?
Animals have miserable horrible lives
Humans are the root of the Animals miserable lives
Get rid of Humans and Animals will be in control of their labor and products of their labor giving them a better life
Under the Humans all the Animals will die horrible deaths
The Solution is to rebel
All animals are Comrades humans are the enemies
After rebellion Animals should not come to resemble humans
“Beasts of England”
Its anthem of the rebellion
Was originally sung by Old Major when he was saying his speech
It is sung in important times like when the Animals completed the rebellion and at meetings
Division of Jobs among the animals
Pigs did not actually work but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge iw was natural that they should assume the leadership
Boxer and Clover the cart horses used the cutter and horse rake and tramp steadily round the field
Every Animal worked at turning the hay and gathering it
Boxer did lots of work and the farm seemed to rest on his shoulders even doing volunteer work
What caused it?
Old major’s speech first sparks the belief that the animals must rebel
Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer came up with Animalism which was a complete system of thought based on Old Major’s speech
Had secret meanings were the pigs tried to convince the other animals that they must rebel despite their fears
Mr. Jones had hard times and the Farm was not in good condition no one would feed the animals
Cow broke open the door to the store house and everyone helped themselves to the bins
Mr. Jones and his men attempted to stop this by coming in with whips
Animals began to attack the men and ran them out of the farm
Outcome?
Everything that had to do with the maltreatment of the animals was destroyed
Everyone was happy and sung beasts of England
Animals decided to preserve the farmhouse as a museum
Created their own society with rules (seven commandments)
