George Orwell's Animal Farm

Orwell's background

Raised in England

"Hated" colonoalism

Born Eric Blair

Sraddled economic class

In Burma (British India)(1903)

Won Scholarship to Eton

Worked as a policman for the Empire in India for 5 years after school

GO a pen name ides from 1933 to separate his family from his journalism

Allegory of the Soviet Union

The Revolution

Main Characters

Old Major / Lenin

Snowball / Leon Trotsky

Napoleon / Stalin

Tyrants and dictators

Abuse of political power

Opportunist, works with humans

Dies early, represents the foundation of Animal Farm.

Chased away from the farm by Napoleon

Boxer / The working people of the USSR

Gets sold off to the butcher, symbolic

Less important characters

The Raven Moses

Represents Religion in the USSR

Molly (?) The White female horse

Represents the rich that fled after the revolution

Every character / event represents something within the USSR early history. Allegory = Story that can be interpreted with a hidden meaning

Major events

Windmill

Five-Year plan / The hard work of the population resulting in nothing