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Allegory Table

he had the idea of the rebellion || Karl Marx- created the ideas for socialism and communism. People respected him because he believed that people equally share the product of a community if they do the same amount of work. || Obama- he wants equality for all Americans. He also believes that change is needed to accomplish that. || || Tsar Nicholas II- Leader of Russia right before the Russian Revolution. The people ran him out of Russian and into a different country. || Muammar Gaddafi- The abusive leader of Libya. He was hated by the people so they rebelled against him. || || Bourgeois Class- in the long-run, they didn't really contribute anything to the Revolution. If they didn't have to sacrifice anything, they agreed with anything the Bolsheviks said. || The rich- they really control the media and they can sponsor certain people if they want them to do a good job. The upper class people have a lot of power because they have a lot of money, so they just sit back and relax. || || Stalin- Was the leader and made people think that what he was doing was right. He got the secret police to make people listen to him. || One of my teachers- my teacher was really nice when he first came in to replace on of my former teachers. After a while, he started being mean and demanding too much from us because he used to teach high school and is thinking we can do a lot of work. He is also a tough grader since he used to teach high school.
 * ~ Animal Farm Characters/Items/Events ||~ What it symbolized For Orwell ||~ What It Could Symbolize Today ||
 * Old Major- the wise old well respected pig,
 * Mr. Jones- Runs the farm until he is overthrown by the animals. He abused his powers and worked the animals to hard.
 * Mollie- A vain, ditsy horse who contributes very little to the rebellion. She is very unfaithful to Animal Farm and she later runs off and leaves the rebellion completely. Mollie preferred the original farm over the new Animal Farm.
 * Napoleon- a pig that leads after Old Major's death. He is nice at first but then he starts being mean to the animals. Snowball made sure that people listened to him.

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 * Napoleon's Pile of Corpses- In chapter 6, some animals confess to doing things with Snowball even though they didn't. They did this because the animals were tired of being tortured and thought it'd be easy to confess and just be done with it.

|| The Great Purge- people were being tortured by Stalin because they were associating with Trotsky. Many people confessed even if they didn't do anything because they were tired of being tortured and just wanted to be killed. ||  || || Stalin becoming like Tsar Nicolas-Stalin was abusing his power just as Tsar Nicolas had. ||  || || The working class- they worked hard because they were told that everything would be equal. They were hoping for a Utopia. || Working class in the US-they still work really hard. ||
 * The pigs becoming like the men-Napoleon was beginning to become greedy and work the animals too hard just as Jones had done.
 * Boxer- always works really hard and keeps working because he thinks that good things will happen.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 Who was involved: The Soviet Union- Karl Marx- Had the idea of socialism and communism.He believed that if people did an equal amount of work, then they deserved an equal amount of the products or rewards. Bolsheviks- Ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Tsaris Nicholas II- King of Russia during the Revolution. Was a mean ruler Leon Trotsky-

Why it happened: Peasant dissatisfaction, poor leadership, an unpopular monarchy, political movements and war.

Allegory- A story where something represents something other than what it really is. Satire- Use of sarcasm or irony to ridicule or poke fun at someone. Fable- a story that has a moral and uses animals as characters that can speak.