Summarization of animal farm chapters 1-10
CHAPTER 1 In the opening chapter of the book, Mr. Jones of Manor Farm is shown as a careless, irresponsible farm owner who cares more for a glass of beer than for his animals and the farm. He is often drunk, and his resulting carelessness causes the farm animals to protest and rebel against him. A 12-year-old middle white boar 'Old Major', who lately grown stout and majestic looking pig with a wise benevolent appearance had called a meeting in the barn about a dream he had the previous night. First arrived the dogs; Bluebell, Jessie and Pitcher and then the pigs came in with the hens and pigeons that flew on top. Soon the sheep's, cows and the carthorses Boxer and Clover had came into the barn. Then came Muriel the white goat and Benjamin the donkey, who was the oldest animal on the farm. Ducklings came in with Mollie the foolish, pretty white mare. Only one left was Moses the tame raven. Old Major started his speech on how the animals were treated and were being used. He said, 'the farm was in a terrible condition and there is not much money for a good lifestyles. In addition the farm only has 12 horses, 20 cows and 100's of sheep. The problem was that man exists. Man consumes without producing. Old Major talked about what happened to the babies of the animals. There was a message in all of this 'whatever goes on two legs is an enemy, but whatever is upon
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Draft During chapters 7-10 Orwell goes to great lengths to show sympathy for the animals in animal farm. He achieves this by using different techniques which I am going to show you. George Orwell based Animal Farm on the Russian revolution which occurred many years beforehand. Orwell tries to make us feel pathos for the animals to show what the Russian revolution was like for the people affected by it. In chapters seven to ten the animals have to work harder than ever and one wrong move would take them to the chopping board. One quote which stands out for classical satire of the Russian revolution is "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS." (Chapter 10, pg. 112) This quote makes people feel pathos for the animals because they would think that they were only on the farm to serve Napoleon and build windmills whilst the pigs whop were obviously better off just lazed around or did less of the work. The animals blamed their faulty memories for forgetting the commandment. At this point the animals would probably feel that they were hard done by in the reign of napoleon. Orwell has done well to create pity for the animals here. "The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally" (Chapter 10, pg. 107) this quote is written by the pigs who lived the best lives whilst doing the exact opposite, the animals would feel that they would
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Level 2 Access/GCSE Communications Animal Farm Chose three chapters in the fable where you think the author's use of satire helps us to: * Understand the writers purpose * Understand what is happening in the novel * Understand and appreciate the 'characters' more fully * Appreciate the writers skill * Understand why he used a fable form rather than a novel Animal Farm was written by George Orwell in 1943, yet due to political sensitivity, not published until 1945. The novel is written as an allegory of communist Russia. In consideration of Russia being an ally of the British at this time one can understand the reluctance of many publishers to participate in its distribution. The story is set on an English farm and the animals on the farm are used as characters intended to represent prominent figures in the Soviet Union. The story centres around a revolution undertaken by the animals in order to oust the farmer, Mr Jones, and gain freedom from oppression and hardship. How the story unfolds relates directly to Orwell's profound disillusionment with revolutionary politics, human nature and our overwhelming need to dominate and suppress. The principle characters in this book are Napoleon, Squealer, Snowball and the pig population. Napoleon represents Stalin and remains the most powerful force through out the story. Squealer is used as a means of propaganda directed
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"Animal Farm" Theme and Background The story of "Animal Farm" has an immediate impact. It witnesses how good intentions, self sacrifice and idealism can fall prey to viciousness. It is a story if idealism crushed and betrayed, but alone all it is a story of disillusionment. With the assumption of authority Napoleon & Snowball goes an assumption of greater power. The pattern continues throughout the story until finally Napoleon, who has become a brutal and callous dictator, usurps all power and privilege, and the other animals become fearful & deprived nonentities. The moral of the story at this level is the old saying that power corrupts and that absolute power corrupts absolutely everything. If we look at "Animal Farm" at another level Fredericks: Stands for Hitler. There has also been an arrangement and secret deals. (Allusion to Fritz.) Foxwood: Foxwood farm represents England. Pinchfield: Pinchfield symbolises Germany. Destruction of the Windmill: This destruction is a symbol for the failure of the Five Year Plan. Protagonist · There is no clear central character in the novel, but Napoleon, the dictatorial pig, is the figure who drives and ties together most of the action. Farmhouse: The Jones' farmhouse represents in many ways the very place where greed and lust dominate. Unlike the barn, which is the fortress of the common man, the genuine concept of
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Animal Farm Context George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair, a British political novelist and essayist whose pointed criticisms of political oppression propelled him into prominence toward the middle of the twentieth century. Born in 1903 to British colonists in Bengal, India, Orwell received his education at a series of private schools, including Eton, an elite school in England. His painful experiences with snobbishness and social elitism at Eton, as well as his intimate familiarity with the reality of British imperialism in India, made him deeply suspicious of the entrenched class system in English society. As a young man, Orwell became a socialist, speaking openly against the excesses of governments east and west and fighting briefly for the socialist cause during the Spanish Civil War, which lasted from 1936 to 1939. Unlike many British socialists in the 1930s and 1940s, Orwell was not enamored of the Soviet Union and its policies, nor did he consider the Soviet Union a positive representation of the possibilities of socialist society. He could not turn a blind eye to the cruelties and hypocrisies of Soviet Communist Party, which had overturned the semifeudal system of the tsars only to replace it with the dictatorial reign of Joseph Stalin. Orwell became a sharp critic of both capitalism and communism, and is remembered chiefly as an advocate of freedom and a
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Animal Farm "All revolutions are failures, but they are not the same failure," (George Orwell). Describe what led up to the rebellion and how it failed. George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) wrote Animal Farm. He was born in India, 1903, educated at Eton. After working with the imperial Police in Burma, he came to Europe to earn his living by writing novels. He was a political writer who wrote of his own times. He was also interested in war and human nature. Animal Farm was published in 1945. It is a political fable but also an allegory based on Joseph Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution. It is set in a farmyard. Throughout this book, he exposed through the animals the human nature and their desires. Orwell's health was deteriorating and he died of tuberculosis in January 1950. George Orwell said 'All revolutions are failures, but they are not the same failure,' failure is an important word because it is the main theme in the book. There are many factors that led the rebellion to fail, such as, misplaced trust, power, greed, lack of education, jealousy. In this essay, I will discuss these factors and the way Orwell explores the failures of revolution, but first I will discuss why the rebellion happened because you cannot rebel without a reason. Old Major's speech is the main source that leads the other animals on the farm to rebel for freedom. His speech is very
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ANIMAL FARM . INTRODUCTION I saw the film of the book and it was quite fascinating, especially the historical and political background. So I thought that it would be very interesting to read the book that the film is based on, which is nearly always better. 2. SUMMARY The story takes place somewhere in England on Manor Farm. The story begins when Old Major, the oldest pig on the farm, calls all the animals together for a secret meeting. He tells them about his dream that animals should not live as slaves of the men, every animal should be free. Three days later, Old Major dies. So the other animals plan a revolution. Those are especially the three pigs Snowball, Napoleon and Squealer. Together they work out the theory of "Animalism". The animals start their revolution after Mr Jones, the farm owner, totally drunk, forgets to feed the animals. His men and he are kicked out of the farm. The farm is no longer called Manor Farm, but ANIMAL FARM. Then Major's most important guidelines are written down in the seven commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill another animal. All animals are equal. Some animals cannot remember the commandments by heart, especially the sheep so they
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Janneza King Mr. Disney / 5 English I MYP 3 Oct 2006 Animal Farm: Analyzing Irony In the allegorical work, by George Orwell, he presents the rise and recession of power in a lifestyle dictated by an overbearing tyrant. The author builds characters' personalities with irony to strengthen the directed ridicule. With Napoleon and Snowball always disagreeing on pointless issues, irony plays a key role in the delivery of each scene. Their endless arguments, hypocritical attitudes, and the figurative beings each of the pigs represented with their motives, enabled readers to fall in the seduction of Orwell's vigorous diction. In George Orwell's Animal Farm, he utilizes different types of irony to expose a truth to world, that in any society, the corruption of power inevitably causes history to repeat itself. As the established commandments are secretly altered to coincide with the pigs' new lifestyle, the animals notice that life commences to "readjust" frequently and some try to recall what life was like before the rebellion. (115) the pigs, namely Napoleon, maniacally begin to experiment with the manner of human ways, and as a result he and his fellow kind are engulfed in the potency of unrestricted control. As the pigs become increasingly authoritative, they abuse power to dictate everyone and everything on the farm. Here Orwell uses dramatic irony to show the naivety of
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. " -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) In the 1st 50 years of the 20th Century, it came to pass that revolutionary upheavals in the name of social progress and the utopian ideal brought humanity to the gates of destruction. Out of the flames of war arose several colossuses that bestrode the globe. One of these, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was founded on the ideals of social equality and sharing. Instead the people of the USSR had a nightmare unleashed on them unrivaled in the annals of human history. Only once in the passing of human fictional literature has the acute horror of this regime been displayed once, much less twice. Only one man has the insight and the genius to portray this regime for what it was, a failed experiment of fatally flawed ideology. Only he understood that in the end, humans cannot defeat human nature, because it is inherit in themselves. To truly understand the role that these two books, 1984, and Animal Farm played in our society, we must first understand the man that penned them. Eric Arthur Blair was born in 1903 in the Indian Village of Motihari, which lies near the border of Nepal in north-eastern India. During this period the Indian sub-continent was part of the British
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Animal Farm How does Orwell convince us that Animal Farm is really about human beings rather than animals? Animal Farm is a book which is really about human beings rather than animals. From the book you can find that different animals represent different kinds of human being, like Benjamin, Napoleon, Snowball and other animals. Also the book is like human politics and roughly the book is about Russian Revolution which happened in early 20th century. From the book different kinds of animals equal different kinds of human beings. Snowball, is a leader whose plans and projects were targeting to improve the quality of Animal Farm. He can represent some leaders who are having plans and good ideas for the benefit of their society. For example, from the book Snowball was having a plan of building the windmill, for the benefits of the farm and all animals. Napoleon is a dictator, who was very selfish and only cares about himself and not other animals. He represents some leaders who misuse their power for their own interest. For example, from the book of Animal Farm he used to execute all who confessed when they go against his leadership. Boxer is a hard working horse who worked hard for the benefits of the farm and all animals. He represents working class people who are working hard for the benefits of their country or society. For example, Boxer was waking up earlier than any
