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Animal Farm

&

The Russian

RevolutionSlide2

Animal Farm

Written by George Orwell

Published in 1945Immediate success-translated into many languagesAn allegory written to expose the Stalin regime and destroy the “Soviet Myth” that their socialist society was goodSlide3

The Russian Revolution

1859—Marx publishes The Communist Manifesto

1917—Czar Nicholas II abdicates1918—Communist Party established1918-1920—Civil War, Reds (poor) vs. Whites (rich)

1920—85% of Russian population (peasants) flee

1922—Secret Police established by Stalin

1924—Lenin dies, Stalin & Trotsky

takes over the BolsheviksSlide4

The Russian Revolution

1925—Trotsky exiled to Mexico

1926—The Russian propaganda newspaper The Pravda

(truth for young pioneers) was founded

1928—Stalin crushed revolt of farmers

1932—Massive famine, lower class still works hard for the country

1933—Soviets begin limited trading with the west

1934-38—The Great Purge—Stalin uses KGB to eliminate opposition Slide5

The Russian Revolution

1939—Russia sign Non-Aggression pact with Hitler

1941—Germans invade Russia1945—Western leaders, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet with Stalin at the Yalta Conference

The word Soviet means “council”Slide6

Many of the Characters and Events Parallel People and Events in Russian History

The story of

Animal Farm is an allegory of the events that took place in the early 1900s. Orwell wrote it to enlighten the western societies to what was actually happening behind the Iron Curtain.Slide7

Parallel People/Characters and in Russian

History

Mr. Jones

I

rresponsible

to his animals (lets them starve)

S

ometimes

cruel - beats them with whip

S

ometimes

kind - mixes milk in animal mash

Czar Nicholas II

A poor leader at best, compared to western kings

Cruel—sometimes brutal with opponents

Sometimes kind—hired students as spies to earn income Slide8

Parallel People/Characters in Russian History

Old Major

T

aught

Animalism

W

orkers

do the work, rich keep the $, animals revolt

Dies

before revolution

Karl Marx

/

Lenin

Invented

Communism “Workers of the world unite", take over

gov't

Dies before Russian Revolution Slide9

Parallel People/Characters in Russian History

Animalism

No

owners, no rich, but no poor

Workers

get a better life, all animals equal

Everyone

owns the farm

Communism

S

ame

as above

All

people equal

Gov't

owns everything, people own gov'tSlide10

Parallel People/Characters in Russian History

Snowball

Y

oung

, smart, good speaker, idealistic

Really

wants to make life better for all

O

ne

of leaders of revolution

C

hased

away into exile by Napoleon's dogs

Leon Trotsky

O

ther leader of "October Revolution"

Pure

communist, followed Marx

W

anted to improve life for all in Russia Chased

away by Lenin's KGB Eventually killed because Stalin thought he was too powerful-best leader

Slide11

Parallel People/Characters in Russian History

Napoleon

N

ot

a good speaker, not

clever as

Snowball

C

ruel

, brutal, selfish, devious, corrupt

H

is

ambition is for power, killed opponents

U

sed

dogs, Moses, and Squealer to control

animals

Joseph Stalin

Not

a good speaker, not educated like Trotsky

S

ame

as Napoleon, didn't follow Marx's

ideas

C

ared

for power, killed all that opposed

him

U

sed

KGB, allowed church, and propagandized Stalin Means “Man of Steel”Slide12

Parallel People/Characters in Russian History

Squealer

B

ig mouth;

talks a lot

C

onvinces

animals to believe and follow Napoleon

C

hanges

and manipulates the commandments

Propaganda department of Lenin's/Stalin’s government

W

orked

for Stalin to support his image

Used

any lie to convince the people to follow Stalin

B

enefited from the fact that education was controlled Slide13

Parallel People/Characters in Russian

History

The Dogs

A

private army that used fear to force animals to work

K

illed

or intimidated any opponent of Napoleon

Another

part of Napoleon's strategy to control animals

KGB - Secret Police

N

ot

really police, but forced support for Stalin U

sed force, often killed entire families for disobedience Totally

loyal, part of Lenin's power, even over army Slide14

Parallel People/Characters in Russian History

Moses the Raven

Speaks of Sugar

Candy

Mountain – Heaven, where animals go if they work hard

Snowball and

Old Major

were against him

T

hey

thought Heaven was a lie to make animals work

Napoleon let him stay because he taught animals to work and not complain

Religion

Marx said "Opiate of the people" a lie

U

sed

to make people not complain and do their work

Religion was tolerated because people would work

Stalin knew religion would stop violent revolutions

*Note: Some believe Moses is RasputinSlide15

Parallel People/Characters in Russian History

Mollie

Vain

- loved her beauty and self

D

idn't

think about the animal farm

W

ent

with anyone who gave her what she wanted

Vain, selfish people in Russia and world

S

ome

people didn't care about revolution

Only thought about themselves W

ent to other countries that offered more for them Slide16

Parallel People/Characters in Russian History

Boxer

S

trong

, hard working horse, believes in Animal Farm

"Napoleon is always right", "I must work harder"

G

ives

his all, is betrayed by Napoleon, who sells him

Dedicated, but tricked communist supporters

P

eople

believed Stalin because he was "Communist"

M

any

stayed loyal after it was obvious Stalin

was a

tyrant

The people of Russia were betrayed by Stalin who ignored and killed them Slide17

Parallel People/Characters in Russian History

Animal Farm Slogan

:

4 legs good, 2 legs

bad

Lenin’s

Slogan:

Peace, Bread, LandSlide18

Parallel Events in Russian History

Battle of the Cowshed parallels the Civil War that occurred after the 1917 Revolution

The confessions and executions of the animals reflect the various purges and “show trials” that Stalin conducted to rid himself of any possible threat of dissention. Slide19

Parallel Events in Russian History

Animal Farm’s Executions

Many animals including pigs, chickens and geese were forced to confess evil deeds. All were executed.

Used by Napoleon get rid of those who may not agree with his tactics and to create control through

fear

The Great Purge

Many Russians were executed after “show trials”

Used by Stalin to get rid of anyone who may have disagreed with his

leadershipSlide20

Parallel Events in Russian History

In 1921, the sailors at the

Kronshdadt military base unsuccessfully rebelled against Communist rule, as the hens attempt to rebel against Napoleon. Slide21

Parallel Events in Russian History

The Battle of the Windmill reflects the U.S.S.R.’s involvement in World War II—specifically the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, when Stalin’s forces defeated Hitler’s (as Napoleon’s defeat Frederick). Slide22

Parallel Events in Russian History

Finally, the card game at the novel’s end parallels the Tehran Conference (November 28–December 1, 1943), where Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt met to discuss the ways to forge a lasting peace after the war—a peace that Orwell mocks by having Napoleon and Pilkington flatter each other and then betray their duplicitous natures by cheating in the card

game.Slide23

Themes in

Animal Farm

Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.

The author places them in the work to teach/warn the reader of something about life.Slide24

Themes in

Animal Farm

The Corruption of Socialist Ideals in the Soviet Union

In the beginning of the Russian Revolution and the Animal Farm revolt the ideas are great—everyone is equal, no one is better than anyone else.Slide25

Themes in

Animal Farm

The Danger of a Naïve Working Class

Sometimes, the working class is so busy working, that they fail to see what their leaders are truly doing.

I will work harder!Slide26

Themes in

Animal Farm

The Abuse of Language as Instrumental to the Abuse of Power

Propaganda defined:

The use of ideas, facts. or allegation spread deliberately to further one’s cause, or to damage

an opposing

causeSlide27

Symbols in

Animal

Farm:The Farm

Animal Farm, known at the beginning and the end of the novel as the

Manor Farm

, symbolizes

Russia

and the Soviet Union under Communist Party rule. But more generally, Animal Farm stands for any human

society

, be it capitalist, socialist, fascist, or communist. It possesses the internal structure of a nation, with a

government (the pigs

), a

police force or army (the dogs),

a

working class (the other animals

), and state holidays and rituals. Its location amid a number of hostile neighboring farms supports its symbolism as a political entity with diplomatic concerns.Slide28

Symbols in

Animal

Farm: The Barn

The barn

at Animal Farm, on whose outside walls the pigs paint the Seven Commandments and, later, their revisions, represents

the collective memory of a modern nation

.

.Slide29

Symbols in

Animal

Farm: The Barn

The

many scenes in which the ruling-class pigs alter the principles of Animalism and in which the working-class animals puzzle

over,

but accept these changes represent the way an institution in power can revise a community’s concept of history to bolster its control. If the working class believes history to lie on the side of their oppressors, they are less likely to question oppressive practices. Slide30

Symbols in

Animal

Farm: The Barn

Moreover, the oppressors, by revising their nation’s conception of its origins and development,

gain control of the nation’s very identity, and the oppressed soon come to depend upon the authorities for their communal sense of self.

.Slide31

Symbols in

Animal

Farm: The Windmill

Despite the immediacy of the need for food and warmth, the pigs exploit Boxer and the other common animals by making them undertake backbreaking labor to build the windmill, which will ultimately earn the pigs more money and thus increase their power. The pigs’ declaration that Snowball is responsible for the windmill’s first collapse constitutes psychological manipulation, as it prevents the common animals from doubting the pigs’ abilities and unites them

against

a supposed enemy. Slide32

Symbols in

Animal

Farm: The Windmill

The

ultimate conversion of the windmill to commercial use is one more sign of the pigs’ betrayal of their fellow animals. From an allegorical point of view, the windmill represents the enormous modernization projects undertaken in Soviet Russia after the Russian Revolution.Slide33

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