Animal Farm Theme Symbols Motifs

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ANIMAL FARM Themes, Motifs & Symbols "The flag was green, Snowball explained, to represent the green fields of Englan...

Themes <ul><li>Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. </li></ul>

The Corruption of Socialist Ideals in the Soviet Union <ul><li>Retelling the story of the emergence and development of Sov...

Animal Farm is most famous in the West as a stinging critique of the history and rhetoric of the Russian Revolution.

Snowball vs. Napoleon <ul><li>The struggle for a leadership position between Leon Trotsky and Stalin emerges in the rivalr...

Trotsky vs. Stalin

<ul><li>The purges and show trials with which Stalin eliminated his enemies and solidified his political base find express...

FROM PIGS TO MEN <ul><li>The pigs have become more human day by day. </li></ul><ul><li>By the end of the story, the pigs ...

Stalin, allegedly signing a death warrant.

WHAT ORWELL THOUGHT <ul><li>Although Orwell believed strongly in socialist ideals, he felt that the Soviet Union realized ...

MEET GEORGE

<ul><li>The gradual changing and perversion of the Seven Commandments illustrates this hypocrisy with vivid force, as do S...

THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS <ul><li>The Seven Commandments are: 1) Whatever goes on two legs is the enemy. 2) Whatever goes ...

The Societal Tendency Toward Class Levels <ul><li>Animal Farm offers commentary on the development of class tyranny and t...

<ul><li>The novella illustrates how classes that are initially unified in the face of a common enemy, as the animals are a...

MAN IS OUR ENEMY! <ul><li>In either case, the novella points to the force of this tendency toward class levels in many com...

The Danger of a Naïve Working Class <ul><li>One of the novella’s most impressive accomplishments is its portrayal not just...

<ul><li>Gullible, loyal, and hardworking, these animals give Orwell a chance to sketch how situations of oppression arise ...

THE HARD WORK

The Abuse of Language as Instrumental to the Abuse of Power <ul><li>One of Orwell’s central concerns, in Animal Farm, is...

<ul><li>As a result, the other animals seem unable to oppose the pigs without also opposing the ideals of the Rebellion. <...

The Commandments are slowly rewritten one by one until the last one reads: "All animals are equal, but some animals ...

<ul><li>This outrageous abuse of the word “equal” and of the ideal of equality in general typifies the pigs’ method, which...

Motifs <ul><li>Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the t...

Songs <ul><li>Animal Farm is filled with songs, poems, and slogans, including Major’s stirring “Beasts of England,” Minim...

All of these songs serve as propaganda, one of the major conduits of social control.

State Ritual <ul><li>As Animal Farm shifts gears from its early revolutionary fervor to a phase of consolidation of powe...

Military awards, large parades, and new songs all increase as the state attempts to reinforce the loyalty of the animals.

Symbols <ul><li>Symbols are objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts. </li><...

Animal Farm <ul><li>Animal Farm, known at the beginning and the end of the novel as the Manor Farm, symbolizes Russia and ...

Manor Farm, symbolizes Russia and the Soviet Union under Communist Party rule

The Barn <ul><li>The barn at Animal Farm, on whose outside walls the pigs paint the Seven Commandments and, later, their r...

The barn represents the collective memory of a modern nation

The Windmill <ul><li>The great windmill symbolizes the pigs’ manipulation of the other animals for their own gain. </li></...

The great windmill symbolizes the pigs’ manipulation of the other animals for their own gain. From an allegorical point ...

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