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Animal Farm
(pub.1945)
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ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.
When the animals take over the farm, they think it is the start of a better life. Their dreams is of a world where all animals are equal and all property is shared. But soon the pigs take control and one of them, Napoleon, becomes the leader of all the animals. One by one the principles of the revolution are abandoned, until the animals have even less freedom than before.
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Animal Farm is a classic work by George Orwell and a noted piece of literature, which, of course, may help the reader to catapult the imagination beyond the horizons of dogmatic adherence to idealistic or Utopian thoughts. It however, represents human characteristics in an analogy of animal instincts, but it really gives insight into the Russian Revolution of 1917. It also mimics the doomsday of a precipitated change, brought by a modicum of bureaucratic class called as Bolsheviks.
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Chap. 8 Analysis Help me!
Hello, I've been reading Animal Farm and I think this book is actuallty interesting. although I like reading this book, when it comes to analyzing I'm not doing very good. I need to analyze Chapter 8 for the class I have tomorrow... Please HELP ME!!
Posted By Sae at Wed 18 Jun 2008, 12:53 PM in Animal Farm || 1 Reply
help-political satire
Hi, I have been searching through my finals topics and I found a question about political satire..I am supposed to retell the plot of one and I chose The Animal Farm by Orwell. However I am not sure whether I will be able to talk about the history of political satire?! Can any of you please suggest any of these, typical for each period? It would be good with the author as well... please...thanx ;)
Posted By Veva at Fri 18 Apr 2008, 12:34 PM in Animal Farm || 2 Replies
Animal Farm
Hi there, My name is Eduard and I am from Germany. In about a week I have to give a presentation about "Animal Farm". I thought it would be nice to discuss maybe the important part of the fable if you like. I am not sure how the structure my presentation but of course I will start with Old Majors speech. This speech should give them a reality check. He tries to persuade them to start a rebellion. You can see that Old Major represents the communism because he calls them as "Comrades". He points all the negative aspects out like Man is the only creature who does not produce something he only consumes. Some day later he dies. Snowball, Napoleon and Squealer are now pushing the movement on. By and by Napoleon gets rid of Snowball and becomes the Leader of Animal Farm. A general question. It is said that Animal Farm is a comparison between different systems. The first system was a dictatorship because Jones was the only one who gave orders. The second one is a democracy. All animal are equal, at least for a short period. The third is a republic. The power was transfered to the representatives of the farm, the pigs. An the last one is again a dictatorship through the pigs. Is this right?
Posted By Eduard at Wed 16 Apr 2008, 8:13 AM in Animal Farm || 10 Replies
Stuck in an Animal Farm research paper. HELP PLEASE!
in Animal Farm, what are two things that each of the 3 pigs, Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer do to show power as a form of corruption. and i will maybeneed help later writing an intro and conclusion paragraph.
Posted By thebird1324 at Mon 24 Mar 2008, 5:22 PM in Animal Farm || 0 Replies
i need help in writing a paragraph
hi everyone Read the following topic sentence. Then, with unity in mind, find examples or details from the novel to support a paragraph based on the topic sentence. Boxer always tries to do his duty *support *support *support Can u help me in this? thnx :yawnb:
Posted By ward at Sat 1 Mar 2008, 2:55 PM in Animal Farm || 2 Replies
ques on animal farm >><>
hi everyone :) i hv a question on the animal farm >>> i hope that somebody can help me in it what is the cause of the revolution on manor farm ? write a clear topic sentence and support it with three different examples from the text . i wanna some ideas :)
Posted By ward at Sun 10 Feb 2008, 10:22 AM in Animal Farm || 1 Reply
Help finding sources
Hey everyone, I have a research paper coming up and I decided to make my topic the symbolism in Animal Farm (how Napolean is Stalin etc.) and my teacher requires we have six sources. I have two reference and two online but I'm having a hard time finding two nonrefence sources. Any suggestions as to where I could find any nonreference would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance =]
Posted By MandaPanda at Thu 7 Feb 2008, 8:05 PM in Animal Farm || 1 Reply
The Need for Literacy
How does the theme, The Need for Literacy, apply towards Animal Farm? Why do the animals need to be good readers or critical thinkers in order to succeed?
Posted By asdfghjklucy at Thu 10 Jan 2008, 7:44 PM in Animal Farm || 1 Reply
What really happend to Snowball?
Though I do not belive any of the lies/stories Napolean told about Snowball's wherabouts and activities, I could not help but to wonder, what really did happen to Snowball? Was Snowball ever really hiding somewhere on either the Foxwood and Pitchfeild farm? Did he just take off to some unkown location and more or less dissapear. Or was he infact killed, but Napolean, just lead the other animals to belive he was still alive, so he could use Snowball as a way to keep them in fear and intimidated and as part of his stratagy with dealing with the two farms.
Posted By Dark Muse at Wed 9 Jan 2008, 3:14 PM in Animal Farm || 2 Replies
My Thoughts and Questions
I just finnished reading Animal Farm and it was pretty good, particuarly after the 3rd chapter. When I first started reading I was a bit concenred at first as the begining of the book and the 1st chapter in particular, seemed as if Orwell just took the Communist Manifesto and put it into story form, there were parts of the book that seemed almost word for word from the Manifesto, and though I can understand why he set it up like this, it would be a bit wearisome of the whole book was just a rewrite of the Manifesto, but the story did in fact get much better along the way. One of the things I could not help but to notice was the simillarites to 1984 so many of the same elments were incoperated into Animal Farm. In particular the way in which, once the pigs began to gain more power, they began rewriting history, or altering the rules, while convincing the other animals that such is the way it had always been from the start, and any was mistaken if they thought otherwise. The other thing was the conflict between the Pitchfield and Foxwood farms, and how Animal Farm always seemed to go back and forth between the two, while Napoloan convinved them they were always from the beginning with just one side or the other. This reminded me of the war in 1984 in which they were always changing sides and yet insisting it was the same enemey they faught all the time. Though there were a couple of questions which were raised in my mind of a few things which somewaht confussed me or I did not fully understand within the book. The first was, I did not completely understand why certain animals, had voluentarily made confessions of their so called crimes, after they already knew that the consequences for such would be death. The other thing, if the pigs were all suppose to be so intelligent, then how come none of them ever tried to challenge Napolean? I would think if they were indeed so intelligent, they would start to grow ambitions of thier own and not be content to just follow and obey him, but they would start to have thier own ideas of want power for themselves. I would think they would be able to see the way there was growing unease among the other animals and rally them against Napoloean.
Posted By Dark Muse at Wed 9 Jan 2008, 3:08 PM in Animal Farm || 6 Replies