Characters in Animal Farm

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 5

Characters in Animal Farm

Objectives

At the end of this lesson:

• You will know what an allegory is
• You will know who the characters represent in history

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Describe the characters

Week 3, Lesson 2

Relate to a real-life person, organisation, political party or concept

Mr Jones?

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. 

Old Major?

Napoleon?

Snowball?

Squealer

Benjamin