Animal Farm By George Orwell
Animal Farm Major Symbol
Author: George Orwell
Page: 36
Topic: Identify a major symbol (or what you think will become a major symbol) within your novel. Explain its significance.
Major Symbol: Pigs
Quotes:
1) “The pigs had set aside the harness-room as a headquarters for themselves. Here, in the evenings, they studied blacksmithing, carpentering, and other necessary arts from books which they had brought out of the farmhouse” (Orwell 31)
2) “As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly” (Orwell 32)
3) “It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples” (Orwell 36)
Significance:
Soon after the humans lost control of the farm, the intelligent animals assumed a higher position of authority over the other animals. …show more content…
The pigs represent russian leaders, for example, Napoleon would be Joseph Stalin, second leader of the soviet union, and Snowball represents the first, Leo Trotsky, who was expelled from the politburo in 1925 by Stalin as he rose in power. This is similar to how Snowball was chased away from the farm by Napoleon as he became stronger.
"If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak... Instead - she did not know why - they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes." (Orwell …show more content…
Copy the passage and explain its effectiveness.
Quotes:
1) “WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”(Orwell 6)
2) "The past was dead, the future was unimaginable”(Orwell 28)
Significance (1st quote):
At first, these quotes were really confusing to me, but then I did a little research and it became more clear what the author was trying to convey in these three sentences. The Party made the people think that knowing your enemy unites your community as one, and that is peace. When “freedom is slavery”, a man with free will cannot be destined to win, the Party guides all of its people so they will not fail in their trust in Big Brother. And finally, “ignorance is strength”, if people do not know the manipulation the Party uses on the minds of civilians in order to change the past, if people do not ask why things are the way they are, then the Party has ultimate strength and Oceania can thrive.
Significance (2nd
Author: George Orwell
Page: 36
Topic: Identify a major symbol (or what you think will become a major symbol) within your novel. Explain its significance.
Major Symbol: Pigs
Quotes:
1) “The pigs had set aside the harness-room as a headquarters for themselves. Here, in the evenings, they studied blacksmithing, carpentering, and other necessary arts from books which they had brought out of the farmhouse” (Orwell 31)
2) “As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly” (Orwell 32)
3) “It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples” (Orwell 36)
Significance:
Soon after the humans lost control of the farm, the intelligent animals assumed a higher position of authority over the other animals. …show more content…
The pigs represent russian leaders, for example, Napoleon would be Joseph Stalin, second leader of the soviet union, and Snowball represents the first, Leo Trotsky, who was expelled from the politburo in 1925 by Stalin as he rose in power. This is similar to how Snowball was chased away from the farm by Napoleon as he became stronger.
"If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak... Instead - she did not know why - they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes." (Orwell …show more content…
Copy the passage and explain its effectiveness.
Quotes:
1) “WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”(Orwell 6)
2) "The past was dead, the future was unimaginable”(Orwell 28)
Significance (1st quote):
At first, these quotes were really confusing to me, but then I did a little research and it became more clear what the author was trying to convey in these three sentences. The Party made the people think that knowing your enemy unites your community as one, and that is peace. When “freedom is slavery”, a man with free will cannot be destined to win, the Party guides all of its people so they will not fail in their trust in Big Brother. And finally, “ignorance is strength”, if people do not know the manipulation the Party uses on the minds of civilians in order to change the past, if people do not ask why things are the way they are, then the Party has ultimate strength and Oceania can thrive.
Significance (2nd