Animal Farm Questions

1)What is your reaction to the animals revolution? Explain.

My reaction was good as I felt that the humans were treating bad the animals and not as they deserve, because of that I think the revolution was a good idea as it was the time to stop the suffer.

2) Do you sympathize with the animals complaints and goals? Why? Why not?

Yes I do, as their complaints and goals seemed to be fair enough compared with what the humans did with them.

3) Describe how the rebellion takes place? How does the animals behaviuor during the rebellion suggest human characteristics?

The rebellion takes place when the animals got together and started a fight against the humans to finally get rid of them to start their own farm. The behaviour of the animals during the rebellion suggest human characteristics as they start doing human actions such us "Reading, Writing, Drinking, Sleeping in beds, trading animals products for their own benefits, etc.

4) How do the pigs gain the rights to the cows milk? Why do the other animals allow this? What does this event suggest about power hierarchy on the farm?

The pigs gain the rights to the cow's milk by telling the other animals that it was for the "benefit of the farm". The other animals allowed it because they thought that the pigs were the most capable of leading the farm and also because they tought they were doing it for good purposes.  This event suggest about power hierarchy on the farm that it belongs to the pings and not to all the animals.

5) What was your reaction to Snowball´s expulsion from Animal farm? Explain.
I felt bad as Snowball was a good leader but because of Napoleon he died. Also i felt bad because Napoleon was evil and this had its consequences.

6) Identify three ways that Napoleon tries to solidify his leadership position on the farm. How does the process of decision making on the farm change under Napoleon´s leadership?

Napoleon tried to solidify his leadership by: - Getting rid of his opponent in the leadership, Snowball.
-By controlling everything that happened in the farm with his guards. And by showing that he wast the best and those who were against him, were traitors and must die. The process of decision making changed under Napoleon's leadership because Napoleon turned it into a Tyranny, all the decisions were taken by him and some pigs, they dind't followed the rules and the opinion of the other animals were worthless.

7)Why do the executions take place? What message do these events send to animals about their role in a future society?

The executions take place to keep the farm controlled as it made the animals feel fear so that will make them behave. This events sent the animals a message of tyranny by the pigs so their role in a future society will be to do everything the pigs want them to do.

8) Do you think it´s fair that those who are more educated or more skilled - like the pigs in animal farm- have more influence in the decision making? Who makes the decisions in your family, community and nation?

I think it's fair because if they are more educated or more skilled that means they are more prepared to make decisions than whose that are not educated or skilled. In my family usually my parents makes the decisions but most of the times they ask me and my brother for our opinion on which decision to take. In the case of my community, the decisions are made by the Headmaster and in my nation the President takes the decisions.

9) By the end of the film it can be suggested that the pigs and human political leaders are interchangeable. How might power change those who have it?

Power doesn't change those who have it, it just show us who really they are, as Lincoln said "Give a man power and you will reveal his true character". 

10)In your opinion are the pigs in Animal Farm more intelligent than all the other animals? What qualities enabled them to lead the others? Provide examples that support your answer.

In my opinion, pigs were more intelligent than the other animals because of that they became the leaders. Also because of their ability to control others, "leadership", and their knowledge on the farm issues enabled them to lead others. An example of this is can be seen when they started by making a list of rules/laws and also when they start giving ideas to improve the farm by the build of a windmill ,etc.

OLD MAJOR'S SPEECH

 Select at least 20 phrases where the idea of language and power are present, or that represent an appropiate to appeal the audience. Explain 5 of them. Explain how the ideas help motivate the rest of the animals,  make reference to the films when necessary. Add a picture related.

1) I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom.

2) Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours?

3) Our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

4) We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength.

5) The soil of England is fertile, its climate is good, its is capable of affording food in abundance to an enormously greater number of animal that now inhabit it.

6) No animal in Englad knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old.

7) No animal in England is free.

8) This single farm of ours would supper a donzer horses, twenty cows, hundereds of sheep-- and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining.

9) Why then do we continue in this miserable condition?

10) Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits.

11) And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this last year, and how many of those eggs ever hatched into chickens? The rest have all gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his men.

12) You cows that I see before me, how many thousands of gallons of milk have you given during this last year? ... Every drop of it has gone down the throats of our enemies

13) Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.

14) Almost overnight we could become rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race!

15) Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own.

16) The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

17) That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!

18) Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle.

19) All men are enemies.

20) All animals are comrades.

Explanations:

16) "The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth."

In this phrase Old Major starts by giving an statement that the life of an animal is horrible, just misery and slavery, so they must do something.

9) "Why then do we continue in this miserable condition?"

In this sentence, we can see that Old Major tries to incentivate the animals to take action on the fight humans so they can start living in the way they deserve.

10) "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits."

This sentence explains the animals that man is worthless, it just consumes and do nothing so its no fair that man rules them as the animals do all the work.

13)  "Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever."

This is a key sentence as Old Major tell the animals the answer to all of their problems, to remove the man.

17) "That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!"

This sentence concludes Old Major's ideas, it gives the animals the way to remove man, by rebellion.


By all these ideas, the Old Major changes the mind of the animals, now they can realize that they have being suffering and this must stop, its time to take action.