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George Orwell's Animal Farm (Orwell's background (Raised in…
George Orwell's Animal Farm
Orwell's background
Raised in England
Won Scholarship to Eton
"Hated" colonoalism
Worked as a policman for the Empire in India for 5 years after school
Born Eric Blair
In Burma (British India)(1903)
Sraddled economic class
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
Dies early, represents the foundation of Animal Farm.
Snowball / Leon Trotsky
Chased away from the farm by Napoleon
Napoleon / Stalin
Tyrants and dictators
Abuse of political power
Opportunist, works with humans
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