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Animal Farm
Throughout Animal Farm, Orwell portrays the events of the Russian Revolution of 1917 that eventually resulted in the totalitarian rule of Joseph Stalin. The pigs in the novella represent and...
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Animal Farm
Moses taught the animals that there was a place called Sugarcandy Mountain, and said that all the animals would go to it after they died and live in paradise. In Sugarcandy Mountain, the animals...
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Animal Farm
At the heart of Orwell's story is the message that the leaders of the Russian Revolution (who are represented by the pigs) treated the people no better than those who came before. In fact, as the...
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Animal Farm
In Chapter 4, news of the rebellion spreads throughout the countryside. Initially, the humans sympathize with Jones but do not offer him much help. Each of the neighboring farmers begins to think...
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Animal Farm
Pathos, ethos and logos are the three pillars of persuasion. It is difficult to be persuasive in writing or speech without using all three. Pathos is the appeal to emotions, ethos is the appeal to...
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Animal Farm
In Chapter 3, Snowball and Napoleon agree that the pigs should rightfully eat the apples and use the milk in their mash instead of equally distributing it among the other animals on the farm....
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Animal Farm
In a general sense, Napoleon's tactics lead to greater productivity on the farm. His insistence that the animals follow instructions and remain loyal guarantees that the animals remain committed...
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Animal Farm
Boxer is a massive horse who is the strongest, most dependable animal on the farm. After hearing about Animalism, Boxer becomes its biggest supporter and plays an important role in the Battle of...
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Animal Farm
At the beginning of the novella, old Major gives an impassioned speech persuading the animals on Manor Farm to revolt against Mr. Jones. Old Major begins his speech by speaking about the nature of...
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Animal Farm
In Chapter Five of Animal Farm, Snowball surveys the farmland and develops an idea to build a windmill. When he announces this idea to the others, his dreams for this project become clear. He talks...
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm is an allegory which means that it can be read on two different levels. Each character or event in an allegory stands for something else. Orwell's purpose then was not just a simple...
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Animal Farm
To understand Squealer's particularity in speech, one should understand his character and also his role and position within the context of the novel. Firstly, as a pig, Squealer was in a privileged...
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Animal Farm
Propaganda is information that a person or group uses to promote its ideology and ideas. Propaganda tends to be biased and/or based upon distortions of the truth. Napoleon uses Squealer to change...
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Animal Farm
When Old Major makes his speech to the animals, he uses repetition in a number of ways. Here are some examples: He repeats the idea that an animal's life is miserable. He states that an animal's...
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Animal Farm
Orwell's novella is an analogy for the events leading up to the Russian Revolution and Stalin's eventual rise to power as leader of the corrupt Soviet Union. Initially, Orwell praises old Major's...
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Animal Farm
Yes, the animals are more or less behaving like humans. This is because Orwell wrote the story to illustrate in very simple terms, term that the average person could grasp, how political movements...
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Animal Farm
In Chapter One, the only animal who did not attend old Major's meeting in the barn was Moses, the raven, who "slept on a perch behind the back door." Accordingly, old Major had a dream that he...
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Animal Farm
The author of the novel, George Orwell, uses the animals as symbols to represent humans. This technique is used to great effect in fairy tales, fables, and other children's stories. The purpose is...
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Animal Farm
In Chapter 7, Squealer tells the animals that Snowball colluded with Mr. Jones and attempted to sabotage the Battle of Cowshed. Squealer's lie is so fabricated that even Boxer questions it. When...
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Animal Farm
Old Major's instruction is given in chapter one during the meeting in the old barn. All the animals have assembled to hear what he has to stay. The key point of his directive is that the animals...
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Animal Farm
In Animal Farm, Mollie's internal conflict is based on her vanity, laziness and materialism. These traits are clear from her first appearance to the reader in Chapter One when she arrives late to...
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Animal Farm
Snowball is a popular character on the farm until he is attacked by Napoleon in Chapter Five and forced to flee. After this, Snowball becomes unpopular on the farm because he is vilified through...
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Animal Farm
While Napoleon and Snowball have different personalities, they share a number of common characteristics. They both have aspirations of leadership, for example, as we see in Chapter Two when they...
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Animal Farm
Napoleon and Snowball both play important roles in creating Animal Farm, promulgating Animalism, and gaining the support of the other animals on the farm. Both pigs are intelligent and assume...
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Animal Farm
In Animal Farm, there is an external conflict between animals and humans. Orwell introduces this conflict early in the story: in Chapter One, for example, Old Major expresses this conflict when he...
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Animal Farm
In Chapter Two of Animal Farm, the pigs reveal to the other animals that they have taught themselves to read and write. They did this over the course of three months and using an "old spelling...
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Animal Farm
The Battle of the Cowshed is the first conflict between the animals and Mr. Jones since they have defeated him in the Rebellion. Assuming that a five-paragraph essay will be composed, the student...
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Literature
Even Orwell himself described Animal Farm as a "fairy story." It involves animals who formulate a revolutionary ideology and stage a rebellion in which they steal a farm. They then set up a society...
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Literature
Animal Farm is an unrealistic story because it is about animals that plan and execute a revolutionary rebellion against their human owners/rulers. It is also unrealistic because it has animals...
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Animal Farm
In Animal Farm, the tone of Beasts of England reflects its purpose: it is stirring and enthusiastic, as a means of encouraging the animals to come together and overthrow Man, their sworn enemy....
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Animal Farm
In Chapter 6, the pigs move into Mr. Jones's home, and rumors begin to circulate that the pigs have been sleeping in Mr. Jones's bed. Disturbed, Clover thinks she remembers one of the Seven...
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Animal Farm
In Chapter 10, Napoleon walks around Animal Farm carrying a whip and wearing a black coat, ratcatcher breeches, and leather leggings. Napoleon's appearance is symbolic of his tyrannical rule and...
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Animal Farm
According to eNotes, an allegory is a story in which "the characters and events stand for something else." (See the reference link provided). We see this clearly in Animal Farm: on the one hand, it...
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Animal Farm
Perhaps the animals would have been a little more critical—and therefore willing to resist—many of the pigs' abuses. The pigs' literacy enables them to read Jones's books, some of which give...
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Animal Farm
Lord Acton's belief about the corrupting nature of power can be seen in the political landscape that defines Animal Farm. One of the reasons why Orwell's novel is so powerful is because it is a...
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Animal Farm
Like any good satire or allegory, and almost all of George Orwell's work, Animal Farm is full of social commentary. Though he dismissed the book as a "fairy story," Orwell wanted to show how even...
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Animal Farm
Under the influence of Napoleon, the pigs on the farm use various forms of propaganda to manipulate and control the other animals. From Minimus’s poem to Squealer's various euphemisms, Napoleon's...
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Animal Farm
During old Major's speech, he uses several techniques to propagate his views and ideas. Old Major refers to the animals as comrades which creates a sense of partnership and invokes a close...
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Animal Farm
The animals are certainly not free under Napoleon's rule. As an allegory about Russian Communism, George Orwell's Animal Farm illustrates the ousting of the ideologue Leon Trotsky and the brutal...
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Animal Farm
As was mentioned in the previous post, Snowball and Napoleon have different ways of gathering support from the animals. Snowball is a very eloquent, energetic pig who appeals directly to the...
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Animal Farm
This quote, of course, is from 1984, Orwell's other and equally famous dystopian novel. It is found when O'Brien explains the purpose of power to Winston during his torture and re-education at the...
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Reference
The most important statement that Old Major, an old boar, makes about humankind in Chapter 1 is the following: "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing." Old Major believes that...
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Animal Farm
A major theme in Animal Farm is the idea that power acts as a corrupting influence on certain individuals. Orwell demonstrates this most clearly through the pigs who begin as well-meaning leaders...
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Animal Farm
Napoleon drives Snowball from the farm when the latter is at the height of his popularity and power. He perceives that Snowball is a rival, and wants him out of the way, so he begins to have the...
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Animal Farm
In Chapter Nine of Animal Farm, Orwell uses Boxer's death to present Communism as a betrayal of the working class. This is shown through the murder of Boxer when Boxer (and the other animals)...
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Animal Farm
Orwell describes the animals as exploited by people. In this excerpt, Old Major is describing how human beings take advantage of animals on the farm. Old Major tells the animals that humans are...
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Animal Farm
The statement, "The more corrupt the government, the more numerous the laws," directly reflects the environment created by the pigs after they usurped control of the farm. When the pigs initially...
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Animal Farm
A whip is deemed to be an instrument of dominance, torture, and persecution. Many expressions, such as "crack the whip" and "whip into shape" reflect this connotation. In Animal Farm, Mr. Jones...
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Animal Farm
After the animals overthrow Mr. Jones, their lives change in a number of ways. First of all, as we learn in Chapter Three, Sundays are a day of rest and celebration. The animals do not work, for...
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Animal Farm
In chapter seven of Animal Farm, Orwell is able to create a sense of panic and fear through his description of the pain of starvation and the terror of Napoleon. The opening to chapter seven...