Animal Farm Character Context Flashcards
Snowball
- Trotsky
Boxer
- proletariats/the working class
Squealer
- propaganda
Napoleon
- starlin
Old major
- Lenin
What type of novel is animal farm classed as ?
- Allegory
- fable
- allegoristic fable
The dogs
- the secret police
Mr jones
- Nicolas ll
What is Orwell’s message
- power corrupts
- warning us about the abuse of power
- communism doesn’t work, there will always be someone leading
Real life moment when snowball is exiled
- trorksky was banished by starlin, and later killed by his men
Real life moment when boxer was sent to the knackers as he could no longer work
- labour camps were set up, if you didn’t do the work you were killed
Real life moment when squealer would lie to and manipulate the animals
- Starlin controlled the media, hid all the bad things
Animal farms overall structure
- Cyclical structure
- napoleon mirrors mr jones at the end
Real life moment for the pigs stealing the milk and apples
- collectivisation
- Stalin stealing peoples farm land
Real life moment for napoleon using the dogs to fear monger
- starlings purges (mass killings)
Real life moment for napoleon taking snowballs ideas of the windmill
- Stalin stealing Trotskys ideas to industrialise Russia
Real life moment for the pigs changing the commandments, taking advantage of the animals illiteracy
Stalin took advantage of the proletariats and their illiteracy
What does the windmill represent
The hard work of the working class in Russia
What is Orwell’s message about the leaders from the Russian revolution
- he’s criticising corrupt leaders
- satire
- calling them pigs
