George Orwell

Animal Farm George Orwell

Fable & Allegory

 On the surface, the ______is about ______.

 On a deeper level, the animals stand for ______and ______

 Animal Farm is an ______that represents Orwell’s ______of

communism in the ______

“ All Power to the Soviets”: The Communist Takeover

 Czar ______II was the ______until 1917, when he was taken from

______

 The ______led by Vladimir ______began to take control of

Russia’s lines of ______such as ______and telegraph

______

 Lenin was aided by Leon ______and Joseph ______

 The three ______promised “land, ______, and peace” for

______

 On October 24, 1917, ______and his men took ______to usher in the

first-ever ______

Communism from 1917-1922

 Upon ______, the new______stripped ______from all of the

owners, forbade the holding of ______ The ______were redistributed according to ______and hired ______

was ______.

 Communist ______: ______and peace for ______!

Opposition of Communism

 As with any new ______taking ______, there were those who were

______to the new government

 Lenin, ______, and ______decided to root out and ______

any opposition to the ______government

 Anti-communists were ______

 1918-1921 a ______raged between the communists and their

______

 The “______” (the communists) ______

Change of Power 1922-1940

 Lenin ______in 1922 as a result of three paralyzing ______

 Both Trotsky and ______vied for ______

 Stalin ______out and reigned for ______

Stalin’s Reign

 Stalin maintained ______through political and ______

 Stalin silenced all ______

 High-ranking ______were ______, forced to admit to ______

they did not commit, and then ______

 Stalin died in ______Post-Stalin

 From 1953 to the early 1980’s the ______remained

______

 Internal s______was rampant, and all ______was tightly

______by the communists

 ______that were not communist were considered ______

 As a result, people were ______, ______, or executed for

expressing these ______

 Mikhail Gorbachev took the reigns of ______

 He announced ______and social and political

______

 Ideas were now accepted that were ______

 By _____, the communist government of the Soviet Union admitted

its______

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

How would you define tyranny?

How is governmental power best distributed? Is democracy the best system?

Does the United States have a government that produces perfect equality

among the citizenry?

What amount of inequality or brutality should be tolerated within a

nation?

What different kinds of brutality or inequality can you think of?

Major Characters

Mr. Jones

 Owner of the ______

 Symbolizes Czar ______II, the leader before ______

 The Czar was abdicated in ______

Old Major

 “purebred” ______

 Grand fatherly ______of______

 Represents a metaphor of Karl ______(founder of ______)  Encourages ______under the ruling of ______

 Raven

 Mr. Jones’s especial ______- doesn’t ______

 Represent Orwell’s view of the ______

 To Orwell, the Church is used as a tool by ______to keep the working

class ______and ______

 Orwell is ______of the role of Church

Snowball

 Pig

 Wants ______as much as ______(leader of the pigs)

 Represents ______(Stalin’s ______for leadership)

Napoleon

 Chief ______

 Central ______on the farm

 ______of the pigs

 Represents ______

 Horse

 Represents the unskilled ______

 Lower class drawn to ______(Stalin)  He thinks he will ______most from the new______

Squealer

 Pig

 ______and persuasive

 Represents the ______, the ______newspaper of the 1930’s

 Represents ______

 He is used to ______between Napoleon (Stalin) and the other

______(Russians)

Mollie

 Represents the typical ______-______worker who

suffers from this new communism ______

 She is very ______and only cares about her ______

 She is now considered to be ______because of the design of

communism (everyone is ______)

Benjamin

 Elderly ______

 Symbolizes the older ______

 ______of the ______government

 He seems ______than the other animals

Muriel

 Goal  Smart and ______

 Represents the ______of working ______people

 He is ______by Napoleon (Stalin)

 Surround and ______Napoleon

 Symbolize ______party ______

 Live in l______and enjoy the ______of the society they

______

 The animals ______and the pigs make the ______!

 Represents the ______(police force of the______)

 Bodyguards of ______

 Dedicated and ______