intelligent animals have “new outlook on life”
secret activity, duty to prepare
pigs “cleverest of the animals” (9)
Snowball- Trotsky
Napoleon- Stalin
Squealer- Pravda, Propaganda Dep, glib, good talker, silver tongue, tricky
“complete system of thought” Animalism
ism - system communism, capitalism
ist -person communist, capitalist
Victor Maslow - hierarchy of needs
Raven Sugarcandy Mountain (10-11)
black like clergy, Mr. Jones “especial pet” (10)
recall Marx's quotation about religion
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
**Students have this quotation already.**
Boxer and Clover “most faithful disciples” (11)
Mollie in the farmhouse (14)
Mr. Jones weakened, rebellion more easily achieved
animals hungry- most basic need
“Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need”
Put on overhead and discuss if you are familiar with it.
GOOD TIME TO BRING UP
Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisia fruit seller- self-immolation
one person can set off a movement/ revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHw_auqod6Y
show picture? “Mohamedfire”
erase remnants of Mr. Jones reign
READ PASSAGE pp13-14
“But they woke at dawn as usual…”
• For scene when animals are in field after rebellion (pp13-14)
“Choked-up feelings of emotion at liberation are the surest sign that a moment of disillusion and disappointment is at hand.”
Christopher Hitchens. A Long Short War:ThePostponed Liberation of Iraq , Penguin: Toronto, 2003
Snowball and Napoleon equals, working together
Snowball better writer (15), intellectual, learned- renames farm, paints seven commandments
Napoleon steals the milk- corrupt from the outset
commandment - religious word, Biblical, Torah
allusion to The 10 Commandments
You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
7 Commandments miss quite a few of Old Major's ideas
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