4H1 Animal Farm

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4H1 Animal Farm 

Tue 05/01/21

Resources

You are allowed to use your phone to look up information about "Animal Farm" so that you can answer the questions:

Some resource tips

• Smhoop (great English summary website)

• YouTube (you can find many videos that explain Animal Farm and the characters)

• Scholieren.com (this is a great website for many Dutch summaries about Animal Farm

• Google Translate (for the themes; if you don't know what communism is translate the word first; if you still don't know what it means you can google its meaning and find examples of communism on the internet

Animal Farm

George Orwell                                                  Film

1945 (written during WWII)                       1954

not about a real farm                                   animated drama film

"Animal Farm is an allegory, which is a story in which concrete and specific characters and situations stand for other characters and situations (real life) so as to make a point about them. The main action of Animal Farm stands for the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the early years of the Soviet Union."

Website

https://www.shmoop.com/animal-farm/

Characters in Animal Farm

Napoleon = Yari

Snowball = Bjarne

Squealer = Thomas

The Nine Dogs = Sara

Boxer = Joeri

Mollie = Sena

Benjamin = Romy G.

Old Major = Ninian

Clover = Heleen

Moses = Jur

Mr. and Mrs. Jones = Sharon

Bluebell = Giedo

Jessie = Rahim

Pincher = Mac

The Sheep = Thom

Mr. Pilkington = Bink

Mr. Frederick = Mike

Mr. Whymper  = Rosa

Themes

Power: Leadership and Corruption = Duncan and Kay

Communism vs. Totalitarianism  = Kay and Duncan

Lies and Deceit = Tim

Plot: What is Animal Farm about? = Dune and Romy S.

Religion = Ties

Violence = Cami

Dreams, Hopes and Plans = Marijn

Characters

Animal Farm

Socialism, Communism, Capitalism

Animal Farm

The power of language

For whom did George Orwell write Animal Farm?

What does the simple language in Animal Farm symbolize?

What does the simple language in Animal Farm symbolise?

How is propaganda used in Animal Farm?

-watch Prezi

-make notes

What parallels do you see between the Russian Revolution and Animal Farm?

Could a totalitarian government limit our ability to think about the concept of freedom by removing the word from our collective vocabulary?

A

Yes

B

No

C

D

Pick students to explain their answer.

Give examples of irony in Animal Farm

Website

https://prezi.com/incu3_oa4gba/irony-in-animal-farm/

Link Russian rev. & Animal Farm?

Check for understanding

Focus:

What are the paralles between the russian revolution and 

'Animal Farm'?

One of Orwell's central concerns in Animal Farm, is the way in which language can be manipulated as an instrument of control. HOW DOES THIS BECOME CLEAR IN THE NOVEL?

who do the characters in 'Animal farm' represent?

Major: karl marx en vladimir lenin

Snowball: leontrotsky

Napoleon: jozef stalin

Squealer: vjatsjeslav molotov

Mr.Jones: czar nicholas

Mr.Frederick: hitler

Clover: werkende huis vrouw

Benjamin: de ouderen

Boxer: werkende man

Mr.Pilkington: de regering van de gegalieerden

Moses: orthodoxe kerk

Molly: de eidele mensen en hield van mr jones

George Orwell 1903 - 1950

real name: Eric Blair

Born in a middle-class family in colonial India

Joined the Imperial Police in Burma, but his growing dislike of imperialism caused him to resign after 5 years

Most popular works : Animal Farm & 1984

Both are pessimistic satires on the threat of political tyranny

Why George Orwell is as relevant today as ever

• He is perhaps the most influential British author of the 20th century

• He contributed memorable phrases to the English language

• His greatest influence beyond his two classic novels (Animal Farm & 1984) was as a prose stylist.

• 1984 is a reminder of the threat to democracy posed by those with power who proclaim ‘alternative facts’ and deny objective truths. 

Animal Farm is an allegory

• An allegory is a story in which simple characters are made to represent ideas or the ways particular types of people might behave in the real world;

• They are often simple stories or fairy tales;

• It is like an extended metaphor – one subject representing another; 

• For an allegory to be effective it must be subtle yet obvious to the reader what the object of writing is. 

• Learn the paralles between the russian revolution and Animal Farm

What parallels do you see between the Russian Revolution and Animal Farm?

How is propaganda used in Animal Farm?

-watch Prezi

-make notes

Link Russian rev. & Animal Farm?

Check for understanding

What does the simple language in Animal Farm symbolise?