Animal Farm

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   gbeatty Teacher
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   The flag was made from "an old green tablecloth of Mrs Jones's" upon which Snowball " had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white."

   That sounds kind of generic, until you start to visualize it. Then the images fit together to become something very close to the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union. Creating the flag was a sign that the animals had become ever more like what they hated (the ruling class, the humans, etc.). Historically, the flag symbolizes the Soviet betrayal of the workers, and the distortion of their ideals.

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   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalism_(Animal_Farm)

   http://flagspot.net/flags/fic_anfa.html

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   Posted by gbeatty on Thursday October 9, 2008 at 4:40 PM
   
   

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