Animal Farm ch. 3-4

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Animal Farm

Chapters 3 and 4

Homework check

Comprehension exercises of chapters 3 and 4

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

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

Important characters

of the Russian Revolution

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

Karl Marx

Publisher of Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (1848)

 

Famous for theories about capitalism and communism

Died before the Russian Revolution took place

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)

Joseph Stalin

Premier of the Soviet State

Dictatorially ruled the Soviet Union

Used lots of propaganda to gain power

Leon Trotsky

Karl Marx

Czar Nicholas II

Religion

Snowball

Old Major

Mr Jones

Moses the Raven

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

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

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