John,+PeterL

__1. Summary__ everyone
(will be verbal)

- Animals represent the various types of people found in a society

 * ======Pigs: smart and educated. ‘ As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly.’ (Pg. 49)======
 * ======Boxer: strong worker. ‘...Boxer with his tremendous muscles…’ (Pg. 46)======
 * ======Old Benjamin: the older generation and this rebellion does not matter to him. ‘…Seemed quite unchanged since the Rebellion.’ (Pg. 47)======

- The Seven Commandments

 * ======Communist ideas======

- Rebellion

 * ======The Rebellion of the animals against the man is just like the Bolshevik revolution, or other Revolutions that occurred in Russia======

- The pigs represent Stalin or Lenin ruling after the czar

 * ======‘The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others.’ (Pg. 45)======

__4. Satire - Joanna__
 * irony - they were all equal but the pigs were acting like the humans from the past (45)
 * hyperbole - None of you has ever seen a dead donkey. (47) - donkeys live for a very long time.
 * hyperbole - The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he he does all his mischief. (51) - absolute terms
 * ridicule - the cat and Mollie would always find an excuse to work less (47) - some people always found a way out but would receive the same amount as others. -> communism.
 * ridicule - On Sundays there was no work... there was a ceremony (48) - things on Sunday - It was like a religious ceremony.

__5. Character change (pigs)__ by Peter Lee -harness-room as a headquarter for themselves, study blacksmithing, carpentering, and other arts. -Snowball organizes committees and Meetings, but on whole, these projects are a failure -directs animals for attack when humans return to recapture the farm
 * the pigs clearly start to take leadership roles:


 * growing rivalry between Napoleon and Snowball
 * milk and apple reserved for pigs alone...in a way broke the rule "all animals are equal"

- The pigs say that they dislike milk and apples, but must eat them to preserve their health. If they do not eat milk and apples, and fail to manage the whole farm, Jones would come back. (pg. 52)

 * ======It is not true that by not eating milk and apples, their health will fail and that Jones would come back once the pigs die.======
 * ======Trying to trick other animals and take all the milk and apples======

__7. Propaganda and doublespeak - Joanna__ __8. Abuse of power - joanna__
 * repetition - I will work harder (47) - Boxer's motto: it was like a brainwash to work harder.
 * slogan - Four legs good, two legs bad. (50)
 * it was like, people bad, animals good
 * oversimplification - Four legs good, two legs bad. (50) They made the matter very simple by calling birds four legged.
 * scapegoat - The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he he does all his mischief. (51). They say every man has a hand and they all do bad things with it. - this makes all men bad and all animals good.
 * The pigs just make others work. They say that they supervise because they are smart but they are acting like Mr. Jones in the past. (45).
 * Mollie and the cat just ran away from work but wasn't punished (47).

__9. Questions__ by Peter Lee

1. On page 45 it says "With their superior knowledge it was natural that they (as in pigs) should assume the leadership." Why is this the case? 2. Animalism's essential principle is "four legs good, two legs bad." How do you see aspects of propaganda in here?

3. Refer to Squealer's speech on page 52. How do you see aspects of propaganda here?

4. What do you think is the purpose of spreading the revolution? Is it a quest for power? or for the betterment of the animals? Is this an allegory to an actual event?

5. The pigs attempt to teach the animals how to read and write, but they prove to be unable or unwilling. What potential problem can this pose?