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In this novel, the author purpose is simply described by
Geoge Orwell. He wanted to create a simulation story of human being in a
country and it is simulated by animal character in Animal Farm. By doing this,
George Orwell hoped this story would amuse and edudcate reader. From the ten
chapter in the novel, he described as well what the animals do to force their
right. He also described that in life, there would be many different character
of creature. Not all animals are clever because they have different capacity.
And so, not all human are clever because they also have different capacity. The
most important thing is to work hard to reach our dreams.
In the other side,“Animal Farm is an animal satire
through which Orwell indirectly attacks on the Russian Communism [and its
leaders]”. George Orwell did not like or agree with the way that the Russian
government was running the country. His goal in writing Animal Farm was to
speak out against Russian Communism and show that the rulers were ruling
cruelly. Animal Farm also opposed the
Russian leaders because it depicted what would happen if those rulers were
approved. George Orwell degraded the Russian dictators, Stalin and Trotsky, by
having pigs represent them. He also satirized Stalin and Trotsky by having
Napoleon and Snowball, the pigs that represent Stalin and Trotsky, lead the working
animals selfishly and deviously. While George Orwell wanted to relate the
message that the Russian rulers were unacceptable, he also wrote Animal Farm as
a satire so it would be received and enjoyed.
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The content author purpose from the animal farm is that George Orwell want to convey to the reader his aspiration, like
The content author purpose from the animal farm is that George Orwell want to convey to the reader his aspiration, like
1. he
wants to tell as that the communism is not god, why I say like that? Because as
we know in communism the government is absolute, without doing a discussion
which one in this case people can’t expression their aspiration, in other way
the society aspiration can’t influence the government decision. Like in this story napoleon drive out snowball from
their place because napoleon is not agree with the snowball argument.
2. He
want to tell as about loyalty, that I mean over loyalty here I can see that he
want to tell that over loyalty can company as to the death, because in this
story have clear that boxer must be died
because his over loyalty to the napoleon
3.
The writer want to tell
as that communism can makes grow up the individualism, for example in this
story ,the donkey didn’t tell the other animal that napoleon is not good for
their leader. But because he afraid will be have the situation that same like
snowball, so he didn’t tell the other animals about the napoleon wiliness
B.
Moral Message
In every good story, there should be some moral values
that the reader can get. By giving moral values, hopely literary works can
change someone mind, in this case it change someone from don’t know to know.
1.
Don’t be a corruptor, because corruption can
only make country become worse and poor
2.
Loyalty is needed in developing
a country. But over loyalty is not good too
3.
If we unite, we can be stronger
than before
4.
Don’t be a dictator leader
because it can make publics become poor.
5.
Comunism is not good in a
country’s life.
In the story, the early chapters tells how strong and
compact the animal to force their right and make their own decision in the
farm. In this case we can conclude that to be strong, we must be compact and
work hard. Planning our future firstly should we do, so we can know where we
will do and what we will do. Our decision should be reasonable.
If we become a leader, we must think of our people. Don’t
just think about ourselves as a leader. Like Napoleon in the story, he is so
selfish and he doesn’t want another good opinion, except his opinion. He is not
responsible and wise. He just blame Snowball in any damages in the farm. He is
very tricky. We musn’t follow this personality because it isn’t good and can
make trouble to people.
From this story also, tell about loyalty and sacrifice.
It’s good to be loyal and making sacrifice. But it doesn’t mean anything if
those personality is not balance with our knowledge. We mustn’t too loyal
because it will destroy ourselves. Like what Boxer do in sacrificing himself to
work in the windmill. He was overwork and at the end he collapsed.
C.
Event chronological
Plot
Raising :
One night the prize boar, Old Major,
tells all the other farm animals he has realized that the misery of their daily
lives is all due to the tyranny of human beings, and that if they work to
overthrow the humans their lives will become easy and comfortable.
After Old Major dies, the pigs (led by the two boars Snowball and Napoleon)
start teaching his ideas (which they develop into a system of thought called
Animalism) to the other animals. A few months later, Mr. Jones gets drunk and
forgets to feed the animals, who become so hungry that they rebel and drive the
human beings off the farm. They rename the farm 'Animal Farm' and write the
Seven Commandments of Animalism up on the wall of the barn. Jones comes back
with a group of armed men and tries to recapture the farm, but the animals, led
by Snowball, defeat the men.
Climax :
Snowball and Napoleon argue constantly over plans for the future of the
farm, never able to agree - especially over a windmill which Snowball wants to
build to provide the farm with electric power, and which Napoleon ridicules.
Napoleon calls in nine dogs whom he has specially trained and they chase
Snowball off the farm. Squealer, the very persuasive pig who relays most of
Napoleon's decisions to the other animals, tells them that Snowball was a
traitor in league with Jones, and that the windmill was really Napoleon's idea
anyway and will go ahead.
The animals work hard - work on the windmill is slow and they rely heavily
on Boxer the cart-horse, who is very strong and hard-working. Napoleon begins
trading with nearby farms, and the pigs move into the farmhouse and sleep in
the beds there - even though sleeping in beds like humans was forbidden by the
original principles of Animalism.
The winter is difficult - the animals have little food. Napoleon and
Squealer blame Snowball for everything that goes wrong on the farm, from bad
crops to blocked drains. Then Napoleon's dogs attack four pigs, who then
confess to plotting with Snowball and start a series of confessions of various
'crimes' from other animals - all of those who confess are slaughtered by the
dogs, leaving the survivors shaken and miserable.
The windmill is finally completed and to get money to buy the machinery for
it, Napoleon decides to sell a pile of timber - after wavering between the two
neighboring farmers Pilkington and Frederick, he sells it to Frederick only to
discover that he has been paid with worthless forged banknotes. Frederick and
his men then come on to the farm and blow the windmill to pieces with explosives,
although the animals manage to drive them off the farm again after a bloody
battle. A few days later the pigs find a case of whisky in the farmhouse cellar
and get drunk.
Boxer is injured while working on repairs to the windmill, and Benjamin
notices that the van Napoleon calls to send him to the vet, has 'Horse
Slaughterer' painted on the side. After Boxer has 'died in hospital' under care
of the vet, the pigs mysteriously find money to buy another case of whiskey.
Failing :
After many years, life is just as hard as it ever was. The pigs start
walking on two legs. None of the old Commandments are left on the barn wall. A
group of human farmers come to see the farm, they quarrel with the pigs over a
game of cards - and the animals discover they can no longer tell which is human
and which is pig.
D. Character of the story :
The
dogs and their puppies raised to be Napoleon’s guard dogs.
Napoleon
ü
Boar who leads the rebellion against
Farmer Jones
ü
After the rebellion’s success, he
systematically begins to control all aspects of the farm until he is an
undisputed tyrant.
ü
Farmer Jones
ü
The irresponsible owner of the farm
ü
Lets his animals starve and beats them
with a whip
ü
Sometimes shows random kindness
ü
The often drunk owner of Manor Farm,
later expelled by the animals.
Ms. Jones the farmer’s wife who flees from the
farm after the rebellion.
Snowball
ü
A boar, who with Snowball, leads the
rebellion against Jones. He systematically takes over the farm and becomes
undisputed tyrant.
ü
Boar who becomes one of the
rebellion’s most valuable leaders.
After
drawing complicated plans for the construction of a windmill, he is chased off
of the farm forever by Napoleon’s dogs and thereafter used as a scapegoat for
the animals’ troubles. He is a young boar who becomes one of
the rebellion’s most valuable leaders.
He draws complicated plans for the windmill.
Old Major
ü
An old boar whose speech about the evils
perpetrated by humans rouses the animals into rebelling. An old boar whose speech rouses the
animals into rebellion. His philosophy
is called Animalism. He teaches the animals the song of freedom “Beasts of
England.”
ü
His philosophy concerning the tyranny of
Man is named Animalism.
ü
He teaches the animals the song “Beasts
of England”
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Dies before revolution
Squealer
ü
A big mouth pig who becomes Napoleon’s
mouthpiece. Throughout the novel, he displays his ability to manipulate the
animals’ thoughts through the use of hollow, yet convincing rhetoric.
ü
Represents the propaganda department
that worked to support Stalin’s image; the members of the department would use
lies to convince the people to follow Stalin.
ü
A porker pig who becomes Napoleon’s
mouthpiece. He uses his ability to
manipulate the animals.
Boxer
ü
A dedicated but dimwitted horse who aids
in the building of the windmill but is sold to a glue-boiler after collapsing
from exhaustion.
ü
Represents the dedicated, but tricked
communist supporters of Stalin. Many
stayed loyal even after it was obvious Stalin was a tyrant. Eventually they were betrayed, ignored, and
even killed by him.
ü
A dedicated and hard worker. He keeps believing that hard work solves all
problems. He is sort of dimwitted
Jessie
ü
The farm's sheepdog, she keeps tabs on
the pigs and is among the first to suspect that something is wrong at Animal
Farm.
ü
Moses
ü
A tame raven and sometimes-pet of Jones
who tells the animals stories about a paradise called Sugarcandy Mountain.
ü
Moses represents religion. Stalin used
religious principles to influence people to work and to avoid revolt.
ü
A tame raven who tells the animals
stories about a paradise called Sugarcandy Mountain
ü
Pilkington Jones' neighbor, he finds a way to profit from Animal Farm by forming an alliance with the pigs.
MurielA goat who believes in the rebellion, she watches as Animal Farm slips away from its founding principles.
MollieA vain horse who resists the animal rebellion because she doesn't want to give up the petting and treats she receives from humans. Mollie represents vain, selfish people in Russia and throughout the world who ignored the revolution and sought residence in more inviting countries. A vain horse who prefers ribbons and sugar over ideas and rebellion. She is eventually lured off the farm
BenjaminThe most cynical of all the animals, the farm's donkey doubts the leadership of the pigs but is faithfully devoted to Boxer. Benjamin represents all the skeptical people in Russia and elsewhere who weren’t sure revolution would change anything. A cynical, pessimistic donkey who continually undercuts the animals’ enthusiasm
The SheepNot tremendously clever, the sheep remind themselves of the principles of animalism by chanting "four legs good, two legs bad."
The Dogs
Napoleon’s
private army that used fear to force the animals to work; they killed any
opponent of Napoleon. The dogs represent
Stalin’s loyal KGB (secret police). The
KGB were not really police, but mercenaries used to force support for Stalin.
Clover
A
motherly horse who tries to take care of Boxer and who silently questions
E. What are something new / Interesting point that we
found
There are some points in this story that is interesting. Those are:
1. The time when the animals learned to sing a song namely ‘Beast of England’.
Some animals had difficulty at first. And step by step, they can remember the
song. Even
the stupidest of them had already picked up the tune and a few of the words,
and as for the clever ones, such as the pigs and dogs, they had the entire song
by heart within a few minutes. Then the
uproar awoke Mr Jones, who sprang out of bed, making sure that there
was a fox in the yard. He seized the gun which always stood in a comer of his
bedroom, and let fly a charge of Number б shot into the darkness. The pellets
buried themselves in the wall of the barn and the meeting broke up hurriedly.
Everyone fled to his own sleeping-place. The birds jumped onto their perches,
the animals settled down in the straw, and the whole farm was asleep in a
moment.
2. When the animals learned alphabet. We got some interesting points of the
animals who learn. Clover learnt the whole alphabet, but could not put words
together. Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C,
D in the dust with his great hoof, and then would stand staring at the letters
with his ears back, sometimes shaking his forelock, trying with all his might
to remember what came next and never succeeding. On several occasions, indeed,
he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them it was always discovered
that he had forgotten A, B, C and D. Finally he decided to be content with the
first four letters, and used to write them out once or twice every day to
refresh his memory. Mollie refused to learn any but the five letters which
spelt her own name. She would form these very neatly out of pieces of twig, and
would then decorate them with a flower or two and walk round them admiring
them.
3. Interesting point also we get from the making of windmill, where the
windmill itself had controversy between the animals there. In the long pasture,
not far from the farm buildings, there was a small knoll which was the highest
point on the farm. After surveying the ground Snowball declared that this was
just the place for a windmill, which could be made to operate a dynamo and supply
the farm with electrical power. This would light the stalls and warm them in
winter, and would also run a circular saw, a chaff-cutter, a mangel-slicer and
an electric milking machine. The animals had never heard of anything of this
kind before (for the farm was an old-fashioned one and had only the most
primitive machinery), and they listened in astonishment while Snowball conjured
up pictures of fantastic machines which would do their work for them while they
grazed at their ease in the fields or improved their minds with reading and
conversation. But actually Napoleon didn’t agree with Snowball’s plans of
windmill. Benjamin
was the only animal who did not side with either faction. He refused to believe
either that food would become more plentiful or that the windmill would save
work. Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone
on — that is, badly.
Surprising thing happened when Napoleon immediately agreed
with the windmill project. He at first totally againts the plan, but after
Snowball went out, he made such Snowball was very worst in everything.
II. What we have learned from
Animal Farm story?
1. Valuable lesson about how
political and governmental organizations often work.
With the Animal Farm, Orwell wan to tell about Russian Revolution, as an
example of how a revolutionary government could be worse than it’s monarchist
predecessor. The main lesson is that the organization’s bosses often manipulate
the organization for their own benefit, and end up being as bad.
2. Animal Farm is filled with
irony and symbolism.
One example would be the name of the bad pig, Napoleon. It’s named based of
Napoleon Bonaparte, as a dictator. We can find it a good example of symbolism
since Napoleon first fought to end the tyranny of the aristocracy and in the
end, he became the very tyrant which he was supposed to fight.
3. Power or authority can
corrupt people.
If someone as Napoleon has power, he can make all the animals in the farm
belief and obedient with him. So, we can understand that power can change
behavior of his self and corrupt people/ change the other people.
4. Actually, all of the human
being has the same of right and obligation.
In the story, “pigs” are cleverer animals than the other, they can read,
study the new thing and easy to adaptation. Life is hard for another animals,
the pig has big control and give special right for their selves. It’s the
picture that pigs have different right than the other animals.
5. Although
some human has different class but they have to control with their own
obedience to the government.
Other problem that caused the animal farm to fall into despotism was that
the fact that not many of animals were well educated. For example is Boxer. Who
represent the working class of Animal Farm, worked harder than anyone
else. However, he had no political views
of his own and took whatever Napoleon said to be truth. That eventually led to
his death at the hands of Napoleon and his complies. We can learnt that the
naivety of the working class, and how they were willing to question authority,
acted as fuel to flame the ruling class’ oppression.
New vocabularies that we found:
These
Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form
an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever
after.
carve, cut, or etch into
a material or surface
In
return for your four confinements and all your labour in the fields, what have
you ever had except your bare rations and a stall?
the food allowance for
one day (especially for service personnel)
At
one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ensconced
on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam.
fix firmly
But
they woke at dawn as usual, and suddenly remembering the glorious thing that
had happened, they all raced out into the pasture together.
a field covered with
grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
A
little way down the pasture there was a knoll that commanded a view of
most of the farm.
a small natural hill
garden
consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
plant
fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
a
social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
a
person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or
exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
crowd
or draw together
material
consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been
separated from the seeds
play
boisterously
create
by putting components or members together
be
hungry; go without food
too
old to be useful
of
an obscure nature
a
large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin
the
wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
a
saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
perceive
by inhaling through the nose
the
act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances)
(used of conduct or character) deserving or
bringing disgrace or shame
dig
up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
large
deep serving dish with a cover; for serving soups and stews
characterized
by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
carry
out or participate in an activity; be involved in
raise
or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
a
compact mass
work
hard
a
legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued
by a court or judge)
get
by special effort
young
of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf
uncontrollably
noisy
move
or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
of
especially an attitude
not
injured
a
resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
fall
down, as if collapsing
dependable
close
in time; about to occur
lie
in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
vigorous
and animated
something
that is a source of danger
the
production of young from an egg
distribute
loosely
gather
a
special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
speak
out against
financially
ruined
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