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    Animal Farm: Jaroslav Bouda

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    The document provides background information on George Orwell's allegorical novella "Animal Farm". It summarizes that the story is a dystopian animal fable and political satire about the abuse of power and corruption. It takes allegorical inspiration from the Russian Revolution, with the animals representing the working classes and the pigs representing the Bolsheviks who eventually become the new oppressors. Key characters like Napoleon, Snowball, and Boxer are introduced. The document also asks comprehension questions about simplifying the commandments for the less intelligent animals and why the birds initially objected.

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    The document provides background information on George Orwell's allegorical novella "Animal Farm". It summarizes that the story is a dystopian animal fable and political satire about the abuse of power and corruption. It takes allegorical inspiration from the Russian Revolution, with the animals representing the working classes and the pigs representing the Bolsheviks who eventually become the new oppressors. Key characters like Napoleon, Snowball, and Boxer are introduced. The document also asks comprehension questions about simplifying the commandments for the less intelligent animals and why the birds initially objected.

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    The document provides background information on George Orwell's allegorical novella "Animal Farm". It summarizes that the story is a dystopian animal fable and political satire about the abuse of power and corruption. It takes allegorical inspiration from the Russian Revolution, with the animals representing the working classes and the pigs representing the Bolsheviks who eventually become the new oppressors. Key characters like Napoleon, Snowball, and Boxer are introduced. The document also asks comprehension questions about simplifying the commandments for the less intelligent animals and why the birds initially objected.

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    Animal Farm: Jaroslav Bouda

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    The document provides background information on George Orwell's allegorical novella "Animal Farm". It summarizes that the story is a dystopian animal fable and political satire about the abuse of power and corruption. It takes allegorical inspiration from the Russian Revolution, with the animals representing the working classes and the pigs representing the Bolsheviks who eventually become the new oppressors. Key characters like Napoleon, Snowball, and Boxer are introduced. The document also asks comprehension questions about simplifying the commandments for the less intelligent animals and why the birds initially objected.

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    ANIMAL

    FARM
    J A R O S L AV B O U D A
    KEY FACTS
    • Allegorical Novella
    • Author: George Orwell
    • Genre: Dystopian animal fable, political satire
    • Written: United Kingdom, November 1943 – February 1944
    • Themes: Abuse of power, political corruption, naïveté,
    • oppresion of working classes
    • “Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not
    lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is
    lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will
    prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. Our labour tills the soil, our dung
    fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin.
    • And even the miserable lives we lead are not allowed to reach their natural span. For myself I
    do not grumble, for I am one of the lucky ones. I am twelve years old and have had over four
    hundred children. Such is the natural life of a pig. But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the
    end. To that horror we all must come — cows, pigs, hens, sheep, everyone.

    1) Whole novella is based on 1917 Russian Revolution. Given this fact, who does the man
    represent? And who are the animals in this scenario?

    2) Find a metaphor in the second paragraph


    THE MORE MAIN CHARACTERS THAN
    THE OTHER MAIN CHARACTERS Boxer
    Very strong and
    Napoleon hard-working.
    Snowball
    Allows pigs to
    The pig in charge. Battles with Napoleon govern his life.
    Cruel, uses force (9 for leadership. „Napoleon is
    dogs) to establish Passionate and always right“
    leadership over intelligent. Great orator. „I have to work
    other animals. Based on Trotsky. harder“
    Based on Stalin
    Mr. Jones
    Old Major Drunkard.
    His animals lack
    Squealer Prize-winning
    food while he
    boar.
    Propagandist for indulges himself.
    Has an socialist
    his comrades pigs. Based on
    utopia vision.
    Justifies actions Tsar Nicholas II.
    Soon after he dies.
    taken against other Based on Marx
    animals. and Lenin.
    Twists the truth.
    • None of the other animals on the farm could get further than the letter A. It was also found that
    the stupider animals, such as the sheep, hens, and ducks, were unable to learn the Seven
    Commandments by heart. After much thought Snowball declared that the Seven
    Commandments could in effect be reduced to a single maxim, namely: “Four legs good, two
    legs bad.” This, he said, contained the essential principle of Animalism. Whoever had
    thoroughly grasped it would be safe from human influences. The birds at first objected, since it
    seemed to them that they also had two legs, but Snowball proved to them that this was not so.
    “A bird’s wing, comrades,” he said, “is an organ of propulsion and not of manipulation. It
    should therefore be regarded as a leg. The distinguishing mark of man is the HAND, the
    instrument with which he does all his mischief.”

    3) Why were the Seven Commandments simplified?

    4) Why did the birds object?


    GEORGE ORWELL

    • Real name: Eric Arthur Blaire


    • Born: June 25, 1903, Motihari, India
    • Died: January 21, 1950, London, England
    • Won scholarships to Eton and Wellington
    • attended Eton 1917-1921
    • 1922 Moved to Burma
    • Started working as a colonial police officer
    SOURCES

    • https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Orwell
    • ww.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm

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