Animal Farm
Chapters 6-8
Sophomore English
November - 2010
Chapter 6
Page 73 - what is Napoleon’s
announcement?
What is happening around Animal
Farm?
How have the 7 Commandments of
Animalism changed?
What is happening with the windmill?
Manipulation
Despite “backbreaking” work - rations
are cut - why?
Are the animals suffering more than
under Jones’ rule?
Who is Mr. Whymper?
How is Snowball continued to be
depicted throughout this chapter?
The Windmill
What actually happens the first time the
windmill falls?
What causes it to topple?
Who is blamed?
How does this make Napoleon look to the
other animals?
The windmill represents the pigs’ continued
manipulation of the common animals. They
not only force the animals to work at a
backbreaking pace to build the windmill, but
play on their fear of being re-enslaved to get
what they want and hide their misgivings.
Long Live Animal Farm
Here is what the pigs are doing:
Overworking the laboring class
Justifying the luxuries of the ruling class
Spreading propaganda to cover up government
failure or ineffectiveness
This mirrors not only communist Russia, but
governments throughout the world needing to
oppress their people in order to consolidate
their power.
Tyranny
Orwell had the idea that tyranny worked itself
in a cycle.
As the pigs gain power they become increasingly
corrupt.
With the pigs move into the farmhouse to sleep in
the farmer’s beds, Orwell remarks upon the way
that supreme power corrupts all who possess it,
transforming all dictators into ruthless, selfserving, and power-hungry entities that exist only
by oppressing others.
Chapter 7
The animals work through bitter winter
to rebuild the windmill.
The humans mock the real source of
the collapse of the windmill.
Who do the animals truly find their
inspiration from - it’s not Squealer.
How has Napoleon become a hero?
Slaughter
What do the commandments say?
Why is Napoleon “slaughtering” other
animals on the farm?
“Beast of England…” No more?
Who is Minimus?
Why would the humans be relieved to see the
windmill fall?
The shortage of food that winter represents
Stalin’s “Five Year Plan” for Agriculture - in
which millions in Russia starved - and
industrial production lagged FAR behind the
capitalist West.
Focus on violent tactics employed by
oppressive governments - through the
behavior of the pigs - to obtain obedience despite further corruption.
Leads to massive class division - on Animal Farm
and in Russia as well.
Snowball
Napoleon’s transformation of the exiled
Snowball into an enemy mirror’s Stalin’s
abuse of the exiled Trotsky.
Those who oppose Napoleon meet a
swift death.
How do you think Animal Farm would
be under Snowball’s leadership?
Fear
How does fear play a large role in
Napoleon’s success?
How does fear play a role in today’s
21st century societies?
Chapter 8
“No animal shall kill any other animal…
without cause?”
The animals blame their faulty memories.
Squealer’s Stats
What are Napoleon’s new “titles?”
What is now on the barn next to the
commandments?
Pilkington vs. Frederick
Who do we hate?
Why do we hate them?
Where is Snowball?
Who buys the timber afterall?
Cash only?
Battle of the Windmill
Frederick attacks Animal Farm…
The men blow up the windmill…
Enraged at this the animals attack and
drive the men away….
But not without sustaining injuries…
Several killed
Boxer injured
Disheartened
Rain is a good thing…
The pigs find whiskey…what does this
lead to?
Napoleon is dying?
What happened to Squealer near the
barn?
“No animal shall drink alcohol…to
excess?”
Napoleon & Squealer
Duplicity
These two have systematically perverted
the truth so much that the animals cannot
even recognize it when they witness it
directly.
Minimus patronizes Napoleon through
his poetry and the animals just accept it
and allow it to speak for them.
Why is this poem a true piece of satire?
Predictions?