Intro to Animal Farm

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Length: 50,000 to 75,000 words

Prose: In paragraph form

Fiction by Nature: Not true

Uses: entertainment, propaganda, and expression of a personalphilosophy
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Its a Genre: Type of Literature

Theme: the main idea of the novel, usually

expressed in one sentence

Setting: the timeand placeof the action of thenovel

Plot: the events in the novelPoint of View: Personal, Objective, Omniscient

Conflict: the struggles in a novel


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Characters: the personalities in a novel

Developing Character (Round): a character whochanges in some way during the course of the story;usually a major character who has several sides ortraits to his personality

Static Character (Flat): a character (usually a minorcharacter) who does not change during the story; thiskind off character generally has only one or twopersonality traits.

Protagonist: a character who is trying to achievesome goal (usually the main character)

Antagonist: a character who is trying to stop the

protagonist


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historical

sentimental,

philosophical

psychological

teen

fantasy

detective

romance
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(1903-1950)
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Real Name: Eric Blair

British Political Novelist

Born: To English parents in India


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After his father

retired, Eric and

his family moved

back to England.


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He was sent to boarding school at

the age ofeight to prepare for

Eton, an exclusive prep school.

Because he had a scholarship, he

was teased and humiliated

frequently.
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At eighteen, he passed the Empires

Civil Service Exam and became a police officerin Burma.
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Returned in Europe


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Socialist: someone

who believes that the

government should

own businesses so that

everyone will be equal
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Most fables have two levels of meaning. On the surface,the fable is about animals. But on a second level, theanimals stand for types of people or ideas. The way theanimals interact and the way the plot unfolds sayssomething about the nature of people or the value of ideas.Any type of fiction that has multiple levels of meaning in

this way is called an allegory.
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A composition making fun ofsomething, usually political.

Animal Farm makes fun of

political society after the

Bolshevik Revolution.


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Russian society in the earlytwentieth century had two social

classes: a tiny minority

(bourgeoisie) controlled the

countrys wealth.The working class was called the

proletariat.


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Communism arose in Russia when the

nations workers & peasants rebelledagainst and overwhelmed the wealthy and

powerful class ofcapitalists & aristocrats.


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Farmer Jones

A drunk and a poor farmer,his cruelty towards the farm animals

inspires their rebellion.


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Snowball

A clever pig with a head for ideas,he becomes one of the mainleaders of Animal Farm and

the author of its central commandments.


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Napoleon

A pig with a gift for techniques of control,he establishes most of thefarms rules and eventually

becomes its sole leader.


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Old MajorAn elderly show pig whoseinstruction to the animals

about "animalism" becomesthe philosophical basis

for the creation of Animal Farm.


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Squealer

A pig with the ability to make any

idea sound reasonable,he is Napoleon's side-kick

and is in charge of communicatingto the animals.


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BoxerA strong and hard-working carthorse,

he shows tremendousfaith in the rebellion and its leaders.

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