The neighboring farmers, Mr. Frederick and Mr. Pilkington, worry about the effects of the animal rebellion on their own farms. Special flights of pigeons are sent from Animal Farm to spread news of the rebellion to other farms and teach them the song "Beasts of England". While this motivates some animals on other farms, no similar revolutions take hold. The humans spread propaganda claiming the animals are starving and fighting among themselves on Animal Farm. When Jones and other local farmers attack to retake the farm, the animals led by Snowball are able to defeat them in the Battle of the Cowshed.

1. ANIMAL FARM
Chapter 4
31:30 mins

2. Chapter 4 Summary
 News about the takeover on Animal Farm
spreads through the county
 Special flights of pigeons instructed to go to
other farms
 Spread news of rebellion
 Teach them "Beasts of England"

3. Allegorical Connections
Communist International– The Pigeons
 Abbreviated ―Comintern‖  Flew to other farms
 International organizations  Taught ―Beasts of
for spreading communism England‖—Propaganda
 Believed that “unless  Spread news of rebellion
socialist revolution swept and the success on Animal
Europe, they would be farm
crushed by the military
might of world capitalism”
The news motivates some animals on other
farms to misbehave, but no similar revolution
takes hold.

4. Cover of the
Communist
International
Magazine: 1920

5. Music Motif

6. Chapter 4 Summary
 Neighboring farmers worry what
affect it will have on their farms
 Mr. Frederick of Pinchfield
 Mr. Pilkington of Foxwood
 Bitter enemies

7. Allegorical Connections
 Mr. Frederick - Tough, shrewd, cruel
 Owned Pinchfield farm
 Based on Adolf Hitler, the ruler of Nazi
Germany in the 1930s and 1940s,
 Mr. Frederick proves an untrustworthy
neighbor

8. Allegorical Connections
 Mr.Pilkington - The easygoing
gentleman farmer—Winston Churchill
 Runs Foxwood Farm
 Represents the capitalist government of
England (and the US)

9. Chapter 4 Summary
 Their animals all soon learned the words to “Beasts of
England”
 Feared it was a sign of their doom
 Created rumors of their own, Propaganda, to cloud
outsiders’ understanding of Animal Farm
 “They put it about that the animals…were perpetually fighting
among themselves and rapidly starving to death.”
 "It was given out that the animals there practised
cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes,
and had their females in common. This was what came of
rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington
said.“

10. Chapter 4 Summary
 News of a wonderful farm spread despite the
attempts to stop it
 “Beasts of England” heard everywhere
 Angered the humans
 In early October, Jones, his men, and others
from nearby farms, came back to try and retake
the farm
 Led by Snowball the animals defeat the humans

11. Battle of the Cowshed
 Parallels allied attempts to overthrow the
growing revolutionary government in Russia
 Deemed the October Revolution
 Russians aided by foreign governments fought
the Lenin/Stalin/Trotsky government

12. Propaganda
 Propaganda is the manipulation and
control of language to produce “half-truths”
or flat out lies.
 Transmits more than one message,
depending on what the recipient wishes to
hear or is told to hear.
 An essential ingredient in totalitarianism
 Widespread in every country in the world
 Everything from television commercials to
news broadcasts

13. Music as a Political Tool
 Packet page 34— “Beasts of England”
 Listen to Each and Complete
Corresponding Questions
 In class page 38— “Imagine”
 In class page 36— “Redemption Song”