l Chapter 7 Discussion Notes
“bitter winter” humans waiting for them to fail,
rallying source of pride for animals, READ FROM PHOTOCOPY ABOUT RUSSIAN WINTER
-7, -15 with the windchill
SADS - seasonal affective depression disorder
SADS - seasonal affective depression disorder
humans believe Snowball not cause, walls too thin
scapegoat (n)(v)- someone who you can blame for your problems
Carla's brother is her scapegoat for all of her problems.
She scapegoats her brother.
rebuild windmill “cruel work” (49)
January rations short, starvation looms
root cellar - natural refrigerator
Napoleon proposes campaign to impress outsiders
Napoleon appears in “ceremonial manner” (50) escorted
by dogs
Q5
hens to surrender eggs for sale
hens stage rebellion
hens starved out, capitulate, rebellion hushed up
Q6
all misdeeds/mishaps attributed to Snowball
Snowball causing trouble, cows “milked... in their
sleep” (52)
Napoleon frightens animals with bogeyman of Snowball
Snowball and Jones not enemies “in league” (53)
scapegoat
Q7
Propaganda- Snowball in league with Mr. Jones from
beginning
Squealer retells Battle
Boxer disbelieving but then convinced (54, top of 55)
Squealer appeals to authority (55)
Logical fallacies.
Good ways to trick people in an argument, as used by
Squealer:
The
Appeal to Authority is a fallacy with the following form:
Person
A is (claimed to be) an authority on subject S.
Person
A makes claim C about subject S.
Therefore,
C is true.
The
Appeal to Fear is a fallacy with the following pattern:
Y
is presented (a claim that is intended to produce fear).
Therefore
claim X is true (a claim that is generally, but need not be, related to Y in
some manner).
The
Relativist Fallacy is committed when a person rejects a claim by asserting that
the claim might be true for others but is not for him/her. This sort of
"reasoning" has the following form:
Claim
X is presented.
Person
A asserts that X may be true for others but is not true for him/her.
Therefore
A is justified in rejecting X.
"Do as I say, not as I do."
The Appeal to Emotion is a fallacy with the following structure:
"Do as I say, not as I do."
The Appeal to Emotion is a fallacy with the following structure:
Favorable
emotions are associated with X.
Therefore,
X is true.
This
fallacy is committed when someone manipulates peoples' emotions in order to get
them to accept a claim as being true. More formally, this sort of
"reasoning" involves the substitution of various means of producing
strong emotions in place of evidence for a claim. If the favorable emotions
associated with X influence the person to accept X as true because they
"feel good about X," then he has fallen prey to the fallacy.
Squealer spreads paranoia among animals “we have
reason to think that some of Snowball's secret agents are lurking among us at
the moment” (55)
Q9
Napoleon with medals begins first purge (55)
pigs killed
Pigs, hens, goose, sheep give false confessions and
are slaughtered
Why?
false confessions, by police coercion, threats, torture
animals shaken “bloodshed... happening among them”
(57)
after meeting Boxer wants to solve problem by working
harder (57)- still loyal
BIG QUESTION
“Why do the animals admit to crimes they haven't committed?
Section on false confessions, false confessions to
crimes common phenomena
Convictions based on false confessions in Japan https://californiainnocenceproject.org/2013/01/japan-concerned-over-false-confessions/
■ “Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale”
teach from doc
Question 10
Boxer- Boxer shakes off dogs, looks to Napoleon, still
loyal
Discuss Clover’s thoughts (pp58-59)
Discuss point
Clover “this was not what they had aimed at” (58)
READ PASSAGE pp58-59
compare to pp13-14
turning point, pivotal moment in story
the dream is lost, the farm is not theirs
sang
“BoE” mournfully, Napoleon banishes song- better society realized
l animals on knoll overlooking farm “clear spring
evening” (58)
Animal Farm “desirable... place”
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