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Animal Farm: The Peppa Allegory
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ANIMAL FARM: THE PEPPA ALLEGORY
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.
"Son, when you grow up
Would you be the savior of the broken
The beaten, and the damned?"
By Major
Steven Chapa
Old George Orwell (Eric Blair)
ORWELL
- Was born into a family with a degree of social class movement (low, mid, and high) in India.
- Due to his exceptional intelligence, attended elite boarding schools Saint Cyprien and later Eton College (high school for the UK).
- Despite is work, he hated boarding school. One can argue his residual hatred of authority from school leaked into his political views.
- He skipped University and worked as British Imperial Policeman in Burma. He despised this job as he felt it was an unfair system holding down others (against his nature).
Major George Orwell
(Eric Blair) Part II
DYSTOPIA
- Living in London during the Second World War, he kept chickens in the backyard (his wife, Eileen, rather resented getting up at dawn, after a night of air-raid alarms to feed them). He kept chickens, goats and geese (a fowl he particularly liked).
- Due to his upbringing between (1903-1950) he was born in the time of Great Dictators (Hitler and Stalin). This generated a true hatred of political structure undermining the people in favor of power.
- Thus, the term Orwellian Thought can be defined as: (1) actions that are purposely destructive to the welfare of a functioning society, (2) government surveillance to gather misinformation on it's citizens, (3) self serving propaganda, and (4) the unperson, or erasing people or moments from history to better your own position.
DYSTOPIA
- Dystopia: A futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, political, technological, or moral control.
- Usually written in an exaggerated worst-case scenario to make a criticism about a current trend, societal norm, or political system.
- Information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted.
- A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society.
- Citizens have a fear of the outside world.
- Citizens live in a dehumanized state.
- Citizens conform to uniform expectations. Individuality and dissent are bad.
ALLEGORY
ALLEGORY
- Allegory is a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events. It can be employed in prose and poetry to tell a story, with a purpose of teaching or explaining an idea or a principle. The objective of its use is to teach some kind of a moral lesson.
- An allegory is a complete narrative that involves characters and events that stand for an abstract idea or event. A symbol, on the other hand, is an object that stands for another object, giving it a particular meaning.
- Similar to a Parable, which is a short story to tell a lesson, but Allegory is mostly made of SYMBOLISM.
LEAVE YOUR MARX
- One of Orwell's goals in writing Animal Farm was to portray the Russian (or Bolshevik) Revolution of 1917 as one that resulted in a government more oppressive, totalitarian, and deadly than the one it overthrew...communism (Marxism).
- Marxism, a philosophy by Karl Marx, believed that the means of production in society controlled the society—whoever owned the factories “owned” the culture. From his point of view, the means of production (i.e., the basis of society) would be placed in the hands of the masses who actually operated production, not in the hands those few who owned it.
- V. I. Lenin (1870-1924), the leader of the Bolshevik Party that seized control in the 1917 Revolution that was heavy into Communism. Lenin was responsible for changing Russia into the U.S.S.R.
- Communism argues that a "communal" way of life will allow all people to live lives of economic equality.
- Cult of Personality: is when a country's leader of individual – uses the techniques of mass media, propaganda, the big lie, spectacle, the arts, patriotism, and government-organized demonstrations and rallies to create an idealized, heroic, and worshipful image of a leader, often through unquestioning flattery and praise
LEAVE YOUR MARX
SATIRE
- The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
- By nature, satire is a strong sense of irony and sarcasm combined to purposely hyperbolize or juxtapose things from society, people, etc. Due to this, it is often seen as upsetting, controversial, and occasionally too far and rude.
- Satire does not necessarily mean funny, some is meant to be serious to make you think and understand just how wrong our world really is.
SATIRE
CLASSISM
CLASSISM
- Classism is differential treatment based on social class or perceived social class. Classism is the systematic oppression of subordinated class groups to advantage and strengthen the dominant class groups.
- The Public vs The Private: Usually, novels like this explored the outer person vs the inner person and how they change for society.
- The story is told from the perspective of the common animals as a whole. Gullible, loyal, and hardworking, these animals give Orwell a chance to sketch how situations of oppression arise from the motives and tactics of the oppressors, and also from the naïveté of the oppressed.
- They are oppressed due to the inability or unwillingness to question authority, and condemn themselves to be pawns for the high class.
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