Characters 2

Question 1

Key points on Tsar Nicholas II

Answer 1

• Mr Jones
• Embodiment of Tyranny in the animals/peoples eyes
  
  • He describes himself as the incontestable ruler
• Didnt care about the way the animals/people were living
  
  • Poverty/Upheaval
  • 1905 Blood Sunday masacre
• He was a drunk
  
  • “In the first paragraph he forgot to close the pot holes for the hens and then slipped into a druken sleep”
• When the people found out that more Russians were dieing than any other country in WWI there were strikes and mutinies
  
  • The General then stated they would not support the Tsar
  • The rebellion began
• Just as in the book where the animals started a rebellion when they were not fed

Question 2

Key points on Lenin

Answer 2

• Snowball
• Wise/Persuasive
• Excellent Rhetoric
• Indignant of man
• Believed in the theories of Karl Marx
  
  • “Workers of the world unite vs economic oppressors”
  • All can share equally in the countries wealth
• He informed the workers that he had a dream and all his workers blindly followed
• Just as the animals had animalism which said all equal and they must revolt
• Listing all the crimes of man, he planned the revolt
• He died before he saw this through just as Old major did.
• He was completely uncompromising, after the revolt of 1917 he is widely believed to have sanction the execution of the Tsar and all of his family because they were the epitome of tyranny
• Russia became USSR, just as Manor farm became Animal farm
• The flag of USSR had the hammer and sickle to reflect the struggle of the workers and the flag on the farm was the hoof and horn
• It was perhaps ironic that he stated”in fighting man we must not resemble them” as this is exactly what happened later

Question 3

Key points on Stalin

Answer 3

• Napoleon
• Lust for power/Reputation for getting his own way
• Used Propoganda and terror to achieve this
• He did not fight to remove tyranny as Old Major did, he fought to become a dictator himself
• The first thing he did when he won the revolution on the farm was to take away the animals milk and give it to the PIGS
• Stalin set up the KGB to force his rule
  
  • On the farm Snowball stole 9 puppies to train as killer dogs and force confessions
• He gained further loyalty by setting himself up as an idealist working for change
  
  • On the farm Napoleon gained control under the guise of improving animals lives
• Stalin introduced a 5 year plan to improve industry and agriculture
  
  • On the farm Napoleon tried to build a windmill to make the animals lives easier
• Stalin ordered lenins body to be placed in tomb
  
  • On the farm Napoleon unearthed Old Majors skull
• Stalin introduced the order of Lenin
  
  • On the farm Napoleon introduced the order of the Green banner, thanks in part to animals like Boxer who swallowed all of the dictators lies
• Stalins biggest crime was the fact he became more like Tsar Nicholas II/Jones and perhaps worse, sleeping, eating and living like he did in the palace

Question 4

Other points on Stalin which are reflected in the book

Answer 4

• Civil war after 1917
  
  • Battle of Cowshed
• WWI
  
  • Frederick acts as Adolf Hitler
  • Forges and alliance with Stalin
  • But then found himself fighting his army in 1941
  • On the farm the forged banknotes reflect the deceipt
• In 1921 the sailors
  
  • Reflect the hen uprising
• WWII - most notably the Battle of Stalingrad where Stalin defeated Hitlers forces
  
  • Reflected in the battle of windmill
• The Theran conference
  
  • UK, Russia and USA come together, to decide how to have a lasting peace after the war
  • At the end of the Novel there is a card game where Pilkington and Napoleon flatter each other before drawing the Ace of Spades both cheating