Animal farm
Study Guide
Novel Genres
allegory
Animal Fable
A short tale to teach a moral lesson
Satire
Chapter summary
Chapter 1
1) That Mr. Jones just abandons the animals and doesn't feed them
2) the Beast of England song becomes their anthem
3) They run the humans off
4) They have more freedom now that the humans aren't there anymore
Chapter 2
1) Major Dies
2) They began to prepare for the rebellion
3) They drive the humans from the farm
4) They created The Seven Commandments
Chapter 3
2) they create their flag
3) The animals have to do everything on the farm
4) they get there motto " i will work harder"
Chapter 4
1) they have the battle of cowshed
2) The farmers feel bad for not caring about the animals
3) they began singing Beast of England
4) Mr. Frederick of Pinchfield attempt to take over the farm
Chapter 5
2) Napoleon says that they need to focus on how they are going to get food
3) Napoleon's dogs chase Snowball from the farm
4) Napoleon tells everyone that SNowball was a criminal
Chapter 6
1) Animals worked really hard to finish the windmill
2) Napoleon says that they will be trading with other farms
3) That means that napoleon's has broken one of the commandments
4) the pigs begin to sleep in the house which break another commandment "no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets
Chapter 7
2) Napoleon tells the animals to confess who has been going to the farm with Snowballs
3) if they did not confess they would get ripped apart by his nine dogs
4) when the animals heard that they started to sing the beast of england song
5) Napoleon then banned the Beast of England song
Chapter 8
1) the animals then check the commandments and it says" no animals shall kill any other animals without cause "
2) Napoleon begins to bargain with Mr.Pilkington but the animals don't like him
3) Napoleon does not bargain with him he bargains with Mr. Fredrick
4) Mr. Pilkington is now that enemy
5) After the windmill was destroyed and the animals won the battle they went into the basement and started to drink which was in violation of one of the 7 commandments
6) They next day they said that Napoleon was near death
Chapter 9
2) they have to go into town for a hospital
3) When the van pulls up the van belonged to a slaughter house
4) But then Squealer then said that the vet bought the van
Chapter 10
2) the commandments were changed to 2 legs good four legs bad
3) they look back at the commandment and they have all been erased the only one that was left up there was " all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
4) after all of that the pigs started to wear cloths and when they were having a meeting some of the animals looked in the window and couldn't tell the difference between a man and an animal
Character Symbolize
Characters
Snowball-(pig) Leon Trotsky( is a progressive politician and aims to improve Animal Farm with a windmill and other technological advances)
Napoleon- (boar)Joseph Stalin
Old Major-(pig)Karl Marx
Mollie-(vane white mare) members of the working class
Benjamin-(donkey) Pete Postlethwaite
Boxer-(cart-horses) different social class
Clover-(cart-horse) capitalist who did business with the Soviet state
Moses- The raven Moses symbolizes the Russian Orthodox Church
Squealer-(pig)Russian media
Muriel-(white goat) revelatory influence
Mr. Jones-(owner of the farm)Tsar Nicholas II
Mr. Frederick- (neighbor)the capitalist governments of England and the United States
Mr. Pilkington-capitalist governments of England and the United States
Mr. Whymper-(neighbor) business with the Soviet state
Sheep- blind loyalty
Dogs- Napoleon loyal attack dogs
Ducklings- working class
Some of the characters
Old Major
Napoleon
Boxer
Benjamin
Squealer
Motifs
Motifs
Songs- Beast of England
Rituals- there meetings that they had