Nations Flashcards
Mr. Pilkington owns….
Foxwood farm
Mr.Frederick owns….
Pinchfield farm
Foxwood represents…
Britain
Pinchfield represents…
Germany
“Mr. Pilkington was an easy-going gentleman farmer”
Allegorical reflection of calm and easy going Britain with references to gentlemen to signify British popular culture at the tine
“Mr. Frederick, a tough, shrewd man”
Representation of Germany’s unfriendly reputation at the time
“both thoroughly frightened by the rebellion on Animal Farm”
ADVERB INTENSIFIER, thoroughly, to show the extent to which leaders and royalty in other countries were concerned about the security of their positions in the face of growing communist and socialist beliefs
“very anxious to prevent their own animals from learning too much about it”
Represents how when people are (politically) informed, they can stand up to corrupt leaders and dictators succeed over uneducated masses.
Discussed hyperbolic beliefs of what was going on on animal farm as a result of communism
EXAGGERATED REPRESENTATION of largely baseless claims of the negatives of communism by nations abroad at the time in order to deter their people from it (Trying to control what people know because if they are properly informed, they can rebel against them)
“This was what came of rebelling against the laws of nature”, they said
Other nations were afraid of the loss of the natural way things dominantly were- Where there was capitalism, disguised dictatorship, royalty and class systems.
Flogged animals who sang Beasts of England
Nations abroad put in great efforts to curb the hope that communism was giving its people
“both thoroughly….
…frightened by the rebellion on Animal
Farm”
“very anxious to….
… prevent their own animals from learning too much about it”
