PPT-Animal Farm By George Orwell

Background and Important Terms Animal Farm s Author Author George Orwell Orwell was a political writer who wrote about the social ills of the strict class structure of England He was a socialist believing in total equality for all citizens. He wrote it as a Fable Political Satire Allegory Fable A short tale that is passed on by word of mouth that h as animal characters with human qualities that teaches readers a moral andor lesson Animal Farm as a Fable Characters are animals each with Characters. Original owner of Manor Farm. Farm suffers under his incompetence. The last of the Czars (old government). Mr. Jones. Pure-bred pig. Grandfatherly. Philosopher of Change. INSPIRES the rebellion. Mrs. . Etsell. Animal Farm- George Orwell. Totalitarianism . centralized control by an autocratic . authority .  . the . political concept that the citizen should be . totally. subject to an absolute state authority . Animal Farm. and . The Russian Revolution. … One day I saw a little boy, perhaps ten years old, driving a huge cart-horse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn. It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat. . Animal Farm. Orwell characterizes Napoleon, Snowball, and Squealer as three different types of leaders, each with positive and negative traits. Provide two outstanding positive traits and two negative ones that characterize each pig. Then, next to the traits, cite an incident, action, or speech that illustrates each characteristic.. Professor sabine mendes moura. 2. 2015 – . sabine@uva.br. . http://sabinemendesmoura.wordpress.com. . Trying to define which perspectives.... Take cultural perspectives, for example.... . C. ulture versus . Discuss what . you already . know (if anything) about:. Marrakech. George Orwell. George Orwell. Born Eric Blair (George Orwell was his pen-name) in a British colony in India. Moved to England aged 1 and went on to study at Eton. in Nineteen. . Eighty-Four. . . “. The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. Russian Society. Russia was in an appalling state of poverty while the Czar lived in luxury. There was tremendous dissatisfaction.. . Czar Nicholas II. A poor leader at best, compared to western leaders. About the book. George Orwell (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950). 8. th. June 1949. Dystopian Novel. Totalitarian State based on Soviet Union & Nazi Germany. Based in England. The Party – thought police, 2 Minutes of Hate. Shelby . Crum. 11 November 2015. PSC 394-001. Political Dissent. The . expression of discontent or resistance to those in power or the policies they put in . place. Opposition to systematic oppression or corruption. The Tortoise & the Hare. The Tortoise & The Hare is a childrens story about how you should take your time, don’t brag and try your hardest. It relates differently to different ages but it gets the point across.. Revolution. Animal Farm. Written by George Orwell. Published in 1945. Immediate success-translated into many languages. An allegory written to expose the Stalin regime and destroy the “Soviet Myth” that their socialist society was good. English Literature in the second half of the twentieth century „…the impotence of capitalist government in the face of Fascism combined with economic dislocation to turn the majority of young intellectuals (and not only intellectuals) in the 1930s to the political left. The 1930s were the so-called red decade, because only the left seemed to offer any solution in various forms of socialism, communism, and left liberalism.” Norton