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Good morning.

We’ll get started at 11.

Today’s agenda:

1. Animal Farm Chapter 1

2. Tomorrow: Sentence combining quiz

3. HW Animal Farm Ch 2, make notes

My courses for November quarter:

P1 8:30-10:45 E6/7/10

P2 11:00-1:15 EF5/6

November classes will be all online, same as this term, except for EF1/2 in the evenings.

MY LECTURE NOTES

Animal Farm Ch1

• Read Old Major's speech (pp3-6)

 foreshadowing in Old Major’s speech

Major foreshadows whole story “we must not come to resemble [Man]… do not adopt his vices” (6)

-this is a hint of what is to come- foreshadowing

• Read last bit of speech. pp5-6

“Marx Excerpts”, p.c.

Compare to Karl Marx quotation

“The immediate aim of the Communists is the... overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, [and] conquest of political power by the proletariat...  [T]he Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things...  They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.  Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.  Proletarians of all countries, unite!”

different translations from German “Workers of the world, unite!”

The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx

Class discuss: Are these ideas similar?  How?

Marx -  proletariat overthrowing the bourgeoisie, calling for unity of all workers

Old Major – animals overthrowing humans, calling for unity between all animals

- equate the character of Old Major with Karl Marx

 Notes for question 9

■ Characters Characteristics

 Mr. Jones farmer, drunkard, violent,

irresponsible, doesn’t care for animals 

properly

 Old Major pig, elder, visionary, respected, “majestic-looking” “benevolent” “stout” (1)

 Bluebell, Jessie, Pincher dogs

 Boxer horse, “enormous” “strong as two

ordinary horses” (2) likes to work “tremendous power of work”, not smart, “steadiness of character”, reliable, honest, naïve

 Clover horse, “stout motherly mare” middle-aged, four foals, gentle to ducks (2)

 Muriel goat, minor character

 Benjamin donkey, oldest, bad-tempered,

“cynical”, “never laughed”,

humourless, wise, “devoted to Boxer” (2)

Boxer and Banjamin are close friends- opposites attract

 Mollie mare, pulled Mr. Jones trap,

“mincing” “lump of sugar” 

(3), flirting mane, ribbons

 Cat lazy, disengaged, spoiled, minor 

character

 Moses raven, tame, major character, 

represents the church, religion

 Rats wild, outcasts