Animal Farm Chapter 3

Themes

Rhetorical Effectiveness

Foreshadowing

- Cooperation and hard work eventually pays off

- Uneducated people are easy to influence

- Once you have a taste of power, you do anything to stay on top

"Mollie had a way of leaving work early..." (pg 37)

-Foreshadows that she will later leave the farm

"It was noticed that these two were never in agreement." (pg 38)

-Foreshadows that Napoleon and Snowball will have a falling out

"He took them up into a loft...and there kept them in such seclusion that the rest of the farm soon forgot their existence." (pg 41)

-Foreshadows the creation of his own personal, vicious guard dogs

Background to the novel

Rhetorical Effectiveness

-Animal Farm is an allegorical novella written by George Orwell

-published in England on August 17, 1945

-the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union

-Orwell was a sharp critic of both capitalism and communism

-Each of the characters represent a figure during the Russian Revolution

*Hyperbole:

"He had been a hard worker even in Jones's time, but now he seemed more like three horses than one; there were days when the entire work of the farm seemed to rest on his mighty shoulders." (Page 36)

Vocabulary

Commentary & Allegory

*Squealer's rhetorical question:

"Surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones back?" (pg 42)

-To convince the animals that their present lives are significantly better to the ones they had under their old master, Jones

cutter: a small, light sleigh, usually drawn by one horse

whelped: gave birth to. In this chapter, meaning a litter of puppies was born.

windfalls: apples blown down by the wind from trees

cryptic: having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure

indefatigable: persisting tirelessly

Commentary:

• Only the pigs know the basics> sole guardians and interpreters of AF's guiding principles
• Seven Commandment's reduction to one maxim: "Four legs good, two legs bad">propaganda, enables pigs to institute their own oppressive regime

Allegory:

• Boxer's motto, "I will work harder" represents the working class of the RR
• Squealer uses propaganda to control the common animals, RR: the communists used socialist goals to control the people

Side Characters

Boxer rules

Chapter Summary

Boxer:

-hard working horse

-“I will work harder”

-lack of education

-R.R: Russian working class

Mollie:

-vain mare

-lack of education by choice

-R.R: selfish people in Russia

Benjamin:

-old, wise donkey

-suspicious and cryptic

-believes nothing ever changes

-uninterested

-R.R: skeptic people of the Revolution

Animal Farm Chapter 3

By: Andy, Alice, Diana & Ashley

Character Analysis

-The biggest harvest that the farm had ever seen

-"I will work harder!"

-Sunday fun day

-Flag

-Meetings

-"Four legs good, two legs bad."

-Puppies are born

-Pigs took all the milk and apples for themselves

Pigs:

-educated

-gave commands and supervised

-Squealer

-R.R: Propaganda department

Snowball:

-passionate pig

-“Four legs good, two legs bad"

-education for all

-failed committees

-R.R: Leon Trotsky

Napoleon:

-pig & leader

-education of young

-R.R: Joseph Stalin