Dystopia Animal Farm

The Good, the Bad, the Third Period

National Anthem

What is a Utopia

Utopian ideals are mentioned as early as Socrates. The term became famous in Sir Thomas More's book Utopia about an island off of the coast of the New World that was perfect. In all case, a utopia refers to a perfect society.

Welcome to my nation of plenty.

Where my land is always free.

A place where we are all prefect, a place where my Government is king.

We do not fight, we do not flee.

We are all under one nation. Where we are free.

I am your friend.

I am not the enemy.

In order to be a truly perfect society, the inhabitants of a utopia are generally beyond need. All of their needs are provided for easily, so bad traits such as greed, jealousy and violence are also eliminated.

In a dystopia, the goal of a better society is not

achieved through a lack of need, but through fear and control.

Analysis:

The flags colors ironically represent the

color of blood, and also the color of the planet

itself. The people of the society only know of

the flags coloring representing the color of mars.

Their blood is power.

A dystopia is created by a society trying to reach control rather than the lack of need. Dystopias can be characterized by the following things:

Society is generally under heavy control. People have been taught to conform, and any act at being superior is highly regulated. This can be seen in such stories as Harrison Bergeron and Fahrenheit 451.

What is a Dystopia

A major part of dystopian literature is control from the government. This control is supposed to be for the protection of the people, but it is often perverted into one group reigning over all others. You can see this in The Matrix or Hunger Games.

Karl Marx

Marx was a Prussian philosopher who believed that class conflict occurred due to the financial and social discrepancy between the higher and lower classes. He is credited with being the major influence in socialist and communist movements.

Background

Animal Farm

Vladimir Lenin

Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik revolution

in Russia in 1917. He used Marx's teachings to create the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He was later the head of the communist party, and was succeeded by Joseph Stalin.

D.O.M. Report

Propoganda

Leon Trotsky

During both the rule of Lenin and Stalin, propoganda, or the use of misleading or biased information, was rampant. It was in all facets of life.

Trotsky was a political and social theorist who became a major political and social leader in the communist party after the 1917 revolution. His views were much more in line with Marx than Stalins were. When Stalin came to power he had Trotsky exiled and then eventually executed.

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin succeeded Lenin as leader

of the Russia. Under Stalin, there was the creation of the USSR, rapid industrialization, famine due to prioritizing industrialization over agriculture, mass imprisonment and death.

More food rationing:

• Government orders a food ration
• from four loaves of bread to two every two weeks
• Government is really only giving a loave and half
• "Many witeness have told our reports that while getting their bread they only recieved a loaf and a half."

Soccer Game Being Held at the M.A,R. Celebration (team try outs):

• M.A.R. Holds a celebration in honor of the the dragon queen
• Team Try outs are on Saturday
• "Team try outs will be held on saturday between 2 and 5"

Cover up of section three:

• Government blows up section
• governnment says its an accident.
• real reason was an attack on the sections people
• "Due to the M.A.R. Police the investigation has been terminated and the recovery of the survivors is the main focus."

Characters

Allegory

Allegory is a literary device in which characters or events in a literary, visual, or musical art form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts.

Old Major

Squealer

Napolean

Snowball

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