ANIMAL FARM-- COMPULSORY

You can see the film the internet

The first page of the book here


If you read the book here you can find questions, quizzes and answers

ANIMAL FARM
1. THE AUTHOR
George Orwell (whose real name was Eric Blair) was born in 1903. He worked as a schoolteacher. In 1937 he came to Spain to fight for the Republicans and during the Second World War he worked for the BBC. He was a reporter in France and in Germany. He died in 1950. Some of his books are: Down and Out in London and Paris, Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

2. HOW DO THEY CHANGE THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS?
1. WHATEVER GOES UPON TWO LEGS IS AN ENEMY
2. WHATEVER GOES UPON FOUR LEGS OR HAS WINGS IS A FRIEND
3. NO ANIMAL SHALL WEAR CLOTHES
4. NO ANIMAL SHALL SLEEP IN BED
5. NO ANIMAL SHALL DRINK ALCOHOL
6. NO ANIMAL SHALL KILL ANOTHER ANIMAL
7. ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL


3.. WRITE THE CHANGES:
Manor farm >
Snowball. Hero first class >
The owner. Mr Jones >
Four legs good Two legs bad >

5. BOXER´S MOTTO OR MAXIM:





NAPOLEON´S SPEECH


THE BOOK AND THE FILM


THE BOOK HAS MORE DETAILS THAN THE FILM, FOR EXAMPLE...
- The cat went lost for work and appeared at meal times
- The sparrows always kept out of the reach of the cats.
- THE RAVEN (MOSES). Represents the Church and he always preaches about Sugarcandy Mountain in another world
- MOLLIE, the mare, left the revolution and went to live with the humans
- "One day (Napoleon) ... looked closely at every detail of the plans (of the windmill) and snuffed at them once or twice, then stood for a little while contemplating them out of the corner of his eye, then suddenly lift his leg, urinated over the plans, and walked out without uttering a word"
- The van owned by a knacker had been sold to a vet but he had not painted the name out
- END "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig and from man to pig again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
* LITTLE DUCK DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE BOOK (ONLY A PART OF THE FILM)
* THERE IS NO REVOLUTION AT THE END IN THE BOOK


ANIMALS
Pigs
Snowball
Napoleon
Old major
Squealer
Mr Jones
Mr Wihtney
Dogs
Sheep
Donkey (Benjamin)
Horse (Boxer)
Doves
*Barn


THE HISTORY THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Tsar Nicholas II married and a thousand people were crashed to death 1904
The increasing of taxes to support the regime led to Bloody Sunday 1905
During the First World War Nicholas is the Commander Officer and 1914
Tsarina Alexandra Prime Minister (Rasputin was an adviser)
Tsar resigns after many protests 1917
Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, Lenin, was exiled but he kept returning to Russia
Germans help Lenin to come back. He sizes the Winter Palace October 26th 1917
The Bolsheviks, party founded by Lenin, are popular in cities but not in the
country. They get a quarter of votes in the elections but maintain control by
launching the "Red Terror” a campaign of arrests an executions
Russia withdraw from the war 1918
The Soviet guards kill Tsar Nicholas, his wife and five children 1918
Civil War between Red Army and the Whites 1918-1920
The hammer and the sickle represent factory and fields

STALIN
Djugashvili changed his name into Stalin "man of steel". His early career was involved in illegal activities including bank robberies. Lenin had criticized him, but Stalin suppressed the documents and was always careful to associate him with the founder of the revolution. Stalin sized power and threw opponents, Zinoviev, Trotsky and Kamenev out of the party. The faces of other party leaders were removed from photos and replaced by that of Stalin. He relied on newspapers, films and art to promote his policies.
The opposition were the Kulaks "land-owners". Stalin suppressed them as a class by collectivisation. He created the kolkhoz "collective farms" (Millions of farmers resisted in Ukraine and died of starvation in 1932) Lenin had built gulags” prison camps". Stalin overcrowded them with intellectuals, writers and kulaks and had to build more. Stalin executed a third of all the Soviet army officers. It is estimated that Stalin's policies resulted in 15 million deaths. He died in 1953.
His followers: Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yury Andropov, and Chernenko
Mikhail Gorbachev launched the perestroika "restructuring" and encouraged the glasnost "opening". A reformer, Boris Yeltsin, defeated leading communists at midnight on December 31 1991 the USSR ceased to exist.