Animal Farm presentation

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Animal Farm

George Orwell

Presented by : Simone Manzoni

George Orwell

• George Orwell, pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, was born in 1903 in India and spent his childhood in England.
• Orwell's school experiences were troubled.
• Orwell conducted social experiments living in the poorest areas of London and working as a writer in Paris.
• In 1936, he went to Spain to participate in the civil war, joining the Marxist Workers' Party of Unity (POUM)
• Orwell worked for the BBC and the Tribune newspaper
• Orwell suffered from tuberculosis and died in 1950

Works

• "Such, Such Were the Joys"

• "Down and Out in Paris and London"

• "Homage to Catalonia"

• "Animal Farm"

• "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Animal Farm

Plot

In "Animal Farm," Old Major, a respected boar, inspires the animals of Manor Farm with his vision of a society free from human oppression. The animals successfully overthrow Mr. Jones and establish Animal Farm, led by pigs Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer. Initially prosperous, internal power struggles arise, leading to Napoleon's dictatorship. Under his rule, the farm deteriorates, with propaganda, purges, and exploitation rampant. Despite hardships, the animals continue working, especially Boxer, until his tragic end. Over time, the pigs adopt human-like behaviors and align with neighboring farmers, betraying the revolution's ideals. Eventually, they become indistinguishable from their former oppressors.

Ending:

• “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Main characters

The pig who challenges Napoleon for control of Animal snowball: Farm after the Rebellion. Based on Leon Trotsky

Napoleon: The pig who emerges as the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. Based on Joseph Stalin

Other characters

queler: a pig who spreads Napoleon’s propaganda among the other animals

Old major: a boar whose vision of a socialist utopia serves as the inspiration for the Rebellion

Benjamin: a donkey who failed the opposition of rebelion

Boxer: A horse that have all godd quality of working classes, but he have an inability to recognize corruption

The major themes in Animal Farm

• The Corruption

• Abuse of power
• The Societal Tendency Toward Class Stratification

• violence

Symbols

• farm: it's the simbol of URSS under the domain of comunism. But we can interpret farm as every state

• windmill: it symbolizes the pigs’ manipulation of the other animals for their own gain.

• Whiskey represents corruption. When Animalism is founded, one of the commandments is ‛No animal shall drink alcohol.’

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