Animal Farm Analysis Flashcards
Why did Orwell write Animal Farm?
He wanted to highlight inequalities that exist in Stalin’s Russia
Where is Animal Farm set?
Manor Farm - a rural area in England
Who does Napoleon represent in Animal Farm?
Stalin
Uses fear
Eliminates any threats
Who does Snowball represent in Animal Farm?
Trotsky
Came up with the idea of the windmill
Idealist
Who does Squealer represent in Animal Farm?
Pravda - Stalin’s propaganda newspaper
Napoleon’s propagandist
Who do the dogs represent in Animal Farm?
KGB
Who does Old Major represent in Animal Farm?
Lenin/Marx
Source of all ideas/communism
Who does Mr Jones represent in Animal Farm?
Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia
Lived a separate, good life
Didn’t care about common working class
Who does Mr Frederick represent in Animal Farm?
Hitler
Becomes afraid and arranges a ‘peace deal’ to get in Napoleon’s/Stalin’s good books
Who does Boxer represent in Animal Farm?
Working class Strong Hardworking Naive Instead of being rewarded for his hard work and loyalty he is slaughtered
Who is Benjamin in Animal Farm?
Old, angry donkey
Very knowledgeable about the Farm
But doesn’t take much action because he believes it will be the same even with a different leader
What are the themes in Animal Farm?
- How power corrupts and how power corrupts the revolution
* Societal tendency towards class stratification
What does Animal Farm symbolise in the novel Animal Farm?
Russia and the Soviet Union under Communist Rule
What does the windmill symbolise in Animal Farm?
The industrialisation of Russia after the Russian Revolution. It looked impressive from the outside but on the inside people were starving and worked to death
