Animal Farm ch. 3-4

Animal Farm
Chapters 3 and 4
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Animal Farm
Chapters 3 and 4

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Homework check
Comprehension exercises of chapters 3 and 4

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Important literary devices
Satire: the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other political issues



Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Fable: a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral


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Communism
A political ideology and type of government in which the state owns the major resources in a society

Everyone shares the benefits of labor equally, and eliminates the class system through redistribution of on income

Adopted in Russia after the Russian Revolution

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Important characters
of the Russian Revolution

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Czar Nicholas II
Tsar from 1895 to 1917

Poor leader at best, compared to western kings

Cruel with opponents, but kind when he saw benefit in people
Killed by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution in 1918

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Karl Marx
Publisher of Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (1848)

 
Famous for theories about capitalism and communism

Died before the Russian Revolution took place

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Leon Trotsky
Communist theorist

A leader in Russia’s October Revolution

Battled for power against Joseph Stalin
Was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929)

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Joseph Stalin
Premier of the Soviet State

Dictatorially ruled the Soviet Union

Used lots of propaganda to gain power

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Leon Trotsky
Karl Marx
Czar Nicholas II
Religion
Snowball
Old Major
Mr Jones
Moses the Raven

Slide 10 - Drag question

What further examples of the difference
between the pigs and the other animals
occur in chapter 3?

Slide 11 - Open question

Who would you say is/are the hero/heroes of the battle? Why?

Slide 12 - Open question

What technique does Orwell use to cast doubt on the likelihood of a successful revolution?

Slide 13 - Open question