ANIMAL FARM
REVISION
Chapter 2
 Old Major dies
 Revolution – animals chase Mr Jones and his men off the
farm.
 Animal Farm sign
 Seven Commandments on barn wall
 Milk disappears
CAPITALISM
COMMUNISM
Mr Jones
Pigs (animals)
Chapter 3
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THEME:
Pigs supervise the labour in the fields. Power-struggles
Propaganda
Biggest harvest
Tyranny
 Sunday rest
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flag-raising ceremony
planning next week’s work programme
“Beasts of England”
Snowball and Napoleon disagree, struggle for power
Committees
Reduces Seven Commandments to single saying – “Four legs
good, two legs bad”
Pigs take milk for their diet, “brainwork”
TROTSKY
=
SNOWBALL
RUSSIA
=
ANIMAL
FARM
STALIN
=
NAPOLEON
Chapter 4
 Animals on other farms become more rebellious.
 Jones and neighbouring farms’ men launch an assault on AF
 Snowball organises the defence
 SB, Boxer and sheep that died receive medals for bravery.
 Battle of the Cowshed
 Mr Jones’ gun set against flagpole
 Fired on anniversary of battle and Rebellion
THEME:
Use of
propaganda
SATIRE
=
Celebrations, medals and
honours on AF
Strategy used by Russian revolutionary
leaders to control Russians
Chapter 5
 Mollie runs away and returns to the world of the humans
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(enemy)
SB wins support during meetings because of his brilliant
speeches.
Napoleon and SB can’t agree on farm policies.
SB –WINDMILL
NAPOLEON – FOOD PRODUCTION
Napoleon urinates on windmill plans.
SB wins support with a brilliant speech.
Napoleon puts the nine dogs he has been training on SB,
chase him off farm
 Napoleon announces Sunday debates and meetings will end,
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only salute the flag and sing “Beasts of England”.
Special committee of pigs with him as leader make decisions.
Squealer – Napoleon is always right.
Animals file past Old Major’s skull.
Napoleon – build windmill AFTERALL!!! Actually his
“idea”…
THEME:
Power and
corruption
Rivalry between leaders CLIMAX
Outcomes of a terrible
tyrant in charge:
• Stops group-planning
• He and his supporters use
propaganda and fear to
manipulate evidence
SNOWBALL
was the enemy
NAPOLEON
becoming
worse than Mr
Jones
Orwell’s satirical purpose:
Napoleon’s takeover stands for Stalin’s
ruthless rise to power in Russia.
Chapter 6
 Animals believe all the hard work is for their benefit.
 “Voluntary” Sunday-work –
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THEME:
only half food ration.
Use and misuse of
Harvest not as good.
language
Windmill difficulties
(“voluntary”)
Boxer: “I will work harder”
Trade with neighbouring farms.
Former rules against trade, contact with humans –
dogs silence protests.
Pigs move into farmhouse and sleep in beds.
“No animal shall sleep in a bed WITH SHEETS.”
Half-built windmill blown down during a storm – Snowball’s
fault…
Misuse of the media:
Squealer is a “spin
doctor”
Keep masses
busy with
work and
celebrations.
Prevents them
from comparing
conditions with
what they had
before
Scapegoat =
SNOWBALL
Typical strategy of a
dictator is to change history
and people’s memories of
the past to suite his needs.
Napoleon’s building of the
windmill
Stalin’s Five-year
Plan for Communist
Russia