Animal Farm Quiz 1 Answer these questions in writing. Answers need to be only as long as it takes to answer the question. 1. What is an allegory? Why is Animal Farm an allegory? An allegory is a literary piece that represents a greater and hidden idea. Animal Farm is an allegory because it represents all the revolutions that have resulted in people's freedom, such as the civil rights movement and the Arab spring. Furthermore, Animal Farm paints a picture of how animals are treated horribly until they cannot work anymore, at which point they get killed or sold. This also is an allegory that represents the Holocaust. 2. Identify Major’s heroic qualities. In what way does he approximate an ancient Greek hero? Major is a highly respected boar who took time before he died to unite the animals of the farm with a common cause. His age and respectability inspired the animals to work for the solution to their problems. Major is like an ancient Greek hero because of his "noble" standing; he is Mr. Jones's prize pig. The animals in the farm look up to him as their leader, which is one of the qu...
Old Major is Mr. Jones’s prize winning white boar. In the beginning of the story he ignites new ideas about the way the animals are treated during his speech he says “No animal in England
Old Major, a eminent pig on the Jones farm, is regarded as the wise superior by the other animals. He has had a strange dream and calls the other animals together to talk about their disastrous situation. Old major declares: ';Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious and short';. He declares in Marxist terms that Man is the problem: ';Only get rid of the Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. Almost overnight we could be rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you, comrades. Rebellion!';
In Animal Farm there are many important characters. Some of the characters that played a role in this book are Old Major, Snowball, Napoleon, Mr. Jones and Boxer. Old Major was an old boar that dreamed of a better life and incites the animals to overthrow man. He was an inspiring
Religious freedom worldwide is being threatened as a whole, but not by you. If not by you, then by who? Your government is the answer. We all have different points of views on how well we believe our government runs our country, but are they over stepping their power? In a similar way that Napoleon destroyed the philosophy of animalism in Animal Farm, Governments in other countries are doing the same to their own people’s beliefs today.
An allegory is a story, picture, or poem that can be construed to express a hidden meaning. Cinderella is a story about a girl who was forced into a life of cruelness and hardship. She is a kind a gentle soul who cares for everyone she comes across. This movie can be seen as an allegory for many different reasons. First of all, Cinderella’s parents represent Adam and Eve and the fall of man. When they died, the same way Adam and Eve died spiritually, Ella was forced into an awful life. Ella’s stepmother locks her out of her own family home the same way Adam and Eve were locked out of heaven. Also, the stag that Ella encounters in the woods represents Christ and Ella also comes across the Prince who, too, represents Jesus Christ. He brought her into his kingdom the way Jesus brought us into his kingdom, the Kingdom of Heaven. Ella shows kindness to her tyrannical stepmother the same way Jesus taught us to be kind to all life. Cinderella is a wonderful allegory for the Catholic Church’s beliefs. Ella is also a symbol of humanity. Humanity is good and pure, as she is. She realized how cruel the world was in an abrupt way. She suffered at the hands of her evil stepmother for a long time. Even those who cause chaos and destruction in our world usually feel like they are doing the right
An allegory is defined as a complete story, which involves characters, and events that stand for an abstract idea or an event.
An allegory is the “of symbols in a story, picture… to convey a hidden or ulterior meaning” (OED). In the novel, an egg cup
Old Major, a boar, and the farm animals dream of the Rebellion and new changes in their lives. Old Major inspires hope of a better
Major is a white boar, he is old and wise. He was the driving force that made all the other animals want to rebel against their humans. The elderly boar tells the animals that they must remove man from their midst to abolish tyranny and hunger. He treated the other animals with respect and they did the same to him. Just days after Major tells everyone what they must do he dies. He is almost like an orator to all the other animals and his character is believable.
Orwell’s Animal Farm is an allegory because it has a very hypocritical meaning to it. At the very beginning of the story the animals had a problem with the abusive farmer. He would mistreat them, use them completely for their resources, and would kill them for their meat with no remorse. The famer never showed love to these innocent little creatures. The Wise pigs then held a meeting, and all the animals attended. They developed a plan to drive the abusive farmer out, and finally live free. When they did succeed things were great, well at first they were. The pig Snowball led in their operations and the animals built a pretty safe haven for themselves. Rules were applied, and measures of security were taken for their tight little community. There would be animals on the lookout for intruders trying to disturb there peace. It was like the animals had their own little nation. When the farmers did attack eventually the animals were able to make them retreat in war. Even though some of their friends had passed, such as the dog of the farmer. She had died leaving
curriculars you have after school. You have so much work to be done, there are people counting on you, and you’ve so many goals and aspirations you don’t know what to do with them. Sound familiar? Sometimes too many goals or too much ambition can lead you into a downward spiral. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the animals of Manor Farm work to rebel against the humans’ neglect, starting a Rebellion called Animal Farm. The main character, a pig named Napoleon, is so focused on his power that comes with being the leader of Animal Farm that he starts to become corrupt, changing the morals of the Rebellion. This describes the main theme of the book, saying that “too much ambition leads to greed and downfall”.
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm symbolism, repetition, and visual imagery are present as Napoleon transforms into a tyrant. Throughout Napoleon’s rule, he became increasingly altered from his experience with humanity. The beginning of his rule is riddled with apparent symbolism to Joesef Stalin. As his rule progresses, he is exposed to humanity and develops habits of lying and cheating the system that he had set up. Finally, Napoleon has reached the point of no return. He changes from the mindset of the only good human is a dead one, to not only a sympathizer but takes the pro humanity stance. Throughout the novel Napoleon has been undergoing a transformation of character from an inexperienced leader of Animal Farm to a seasoned ruler treated as the god of Manor Farm.
Old Major chose a poor time to launch a rebellion. The dogs showed little care for the outcome of their pups’ upbringing. The hens’ independence could be seen as a bad action to the taking over of the farm. If the sheep were genetically smarter the story’s course could have been changed. Boxer’s tolerance of the pigs could have been a factor leading to his death. Benjamin’s negligence could have been the downfall of the farm. Lastly the remaining pigs selfishness is a contribution leading to the worse then average life of the farm animals. All these animals were responsible for the pigs’ dictatorship.
Everyone has encountered Aesop's fables at some point in their life. Aesop is the most renowned author of fables; a fable can be any “short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters” (“Fable”). For example, Animal Farm by George Orwell can be considered a fable. In this novel, the animals on Manor Farm rebel against their oppressive dictator, Mr. Jones, forming Animal Farm. However, after the rebellion, the animals allow the pigs to take over, who become the oppressive dictators who abuse the animals; Animal Farm has come full circle. It is rather obvious that the characters and events in Animal Farm are parallels to the rise and revolution of Communism in Russia. But why would Orwell write a fable instead of a political novel? One reason is prominent among many. By writing a fable, Orwell is able to incorporate traditional morals from well-known fables into his novel, Animal Farm; The morals from “The Ass and the Old Shepherd,” “The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons,” and “The Lion’s Share.”
Traditional fables are moral stories that usually feature animals. Aesop's Fables, which are probably the most well known, tell tales about animals that have clearly human characteristics, like the sly fox, the patient crow and the selfish dog. Since Aesop's stories have been told for over 2,500 years, they are clearly a form well suited to telling a universal truth in a way that is accessible to children and memorable for adults. In writing Animal Farm, Orwell wanted to express a particular set of ideas about revolutions - ideas that he thought were more or less universal. The success of the book since its publication would seem to indicate that he had the right idea.