Questions and Answers Chapter 1 & 2

Chapter 1

1. What is significant about how the animals arrange themselves as they gather to hear Major?

Some animlas stick with their herds and others find a spot to stay warm. People are going to stick with their people.

2. According to Major, what is the cause of all animals' problems?

Humans/MAN

3. What motto does Major give the animals?

If you get rid of Jones you will have freedom and happiness.

4. What are the commandments Major gives the animals? Can you think of ways each them could be considered vice?

- Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

- Whatever goes upon four legs or has wings is a friend.

- No animal shall wear clothes.

- No animal shall sleep in a bed.

- No animal shall drink alcohol.

- No animal shall kill any other animal.

- All animals are equal.

They're vices because if animals did that it would be like breaking a law.

5. Why do animals like the song "Beasts of England" so much that they memorizeit on the spot? To what wmotions and needs does it appeal?

The animals like it so much because it talks aboput freedom and what it would be like after the rebellion. Also it makes them feel strong. It appeals happiness, confidence, and excitement.

Chapter 2

6. Ater major's death what happens to the idea of rebelling against man?

They pass the rebellion on to the other pigs (Snowball & Napoleon). They pass it to them because they are the smartest animals on the farm.

7. Why don't the pigs like the pet raven Moses' stories about Sugarcandy Mountain?

B/C they think they're lies, and he never works.

8. What causes the animals to finally rebel against Mr. Jones and his four farmhands?

Mr. Jones would always be drunk and his men would always be doing their own thing and they would always forget to feed the animals.

9. When the humans have been chased from the farm, what do the animals do?

They take over the farm, and celebrate their victory.

10. What do the animals do to the farmhouse?

They get rid of all the knifes, chains and everything that was used to hurt the animals and throw them down the well. They also destroy Jone's belongings, wipe out the last traces of Jone's hated reign and they butned all their clothes or anything that a human would wear.

11. How does the behavior of the pigs foreshadow their eventual leadership?

The pigs take care of the other animlas. They tell them what to do and what no to do.

Character List

• Mr. Jones: Orwell's chief (villain)



• Old Major: first major character



• Moses: most intriguing character..described as "especial pet" because he doesn't work. Only character who doesn't listen to Old Major's speech.



• Snowball: Pig similiar to Napoleon, in the early stages. Wanted a leadership posotion in the "new" economic and political system.



• Napoleon: chief villain. He is a pig and the really central character on the farm.



• Boxer: the name is clevery used. Represent the proletariat.



• Squealer: an intriguing character. described as manipulator and persuader.



• Mollie: Minor character, but she represents something important. Animal who is more opposed to the new government.



• Benjamin: An elderly donkey, most elusive and intriguing characters. Described as rather unchanged since the rebelion.


• Muriel: a goat reads comandments for clover. he represents minority of working class people.


• Frederick: neighbor of Animal Farm. becomes an enemy.


• Pilkington: another neighbor


• Pigs: surround and support Napoleon. symbolize communist party loyalists and the friends of Stalin.


• Rats: represent opposition to the Bolsheciks.included in the rebellion.


• Dogs: represent the KGB bodyguards of Stalin. arch-defenders


• Pigeons: symbolize Soviet propaganda to other countries not Russia.

George Orwell

George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair, was b0rn on June 25 1903 and died in 1950. He was a journalist, political author and english novelist. George orwell wrote Animal Farm in 1945 and Nineteen Eighty four in 1949. George was born in Motihari, Bengal, India. He was the second child. George's dad, Richard Walmesley Blair, was a civil servant, and his mother, Ida Mabel Limonzin, was the daughter of a tea-merchant in Burma. Orwell attended Eton. His first writings were published in college periodicals. Orwell was educated in England.1930's he baegan to consider himself a socialist. During 1941 and 1943 Orwell worked on propogonda for the BBC. Orwell's health was deteriorating and he died of Tuberculosis on January 21 1950.