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  SparkNotes: Animal Farm: Chapter II
Jones, the animals enjoy a double ration of corn and sing “Beasts of England” seven times through, until it is time to sleep.
Jones feeds him represents the bribes with which the Romanov dynasty (in which Nicholas II was the last tsar) manipulated the church elders.
On Animal Farm, however, as was the case in the Russian Revolution, power is quickly consolidated in the hands of those who devise, maintain, and participate in the running of society—the intelligentsia.
www.sparknotes.com /lit/animalfarm/section2.rhtml   (1316 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Animal Farm: Plot Overview
Jones in a battle, running him off the land.
Jones reappears to take back his farm, the animals defeat him again, in what comes to be known as the Battle of the Cowshed, and take the farmer’s abandoned gun as a token of their victory.
Eventually, the seven principles of Animalism, known as the Seven Commandments and inscribed on the side of the barn, become reduced to a single principle reading “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Napoleon entertains a human farmer named Mr.
www.sparknotes.com /lit/animalfarm/summary.html   (854 words)

  
 ANIMAL FARM Guide: Introductory - Edited Script
Jones is the negligent and drunken owner of Manor Farm, and the farm animals bear the brunt of his cruelty.
The animals begin to grumble that the pigs are breaking the commandments of animalism: living in the house and sleeping in beds.
In response to this first hint of insurrection, the animals are shown a newsreel-style film documenting the executions of animals found guilty of treason.
www.turnerlearning.com /tntlearning/animalfarm/afscript.html   (826 words)

  
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Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered.
Jones and all his men, with half a dozen others from Foxwood and Pinchfield, had entered the five-barred gate and were coming up the cart-track that led to the farm.
Most of Animal Farm was within their view--the long pasture stretching down to the main road, the hayfield, the spinney, the drinking pool, the ploughed fields where the young wheat was thick and green, and the red roofs of the farm buildings with the smoke curling from the chimneys.
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 ANIMAL FARM Guide: Literary Elements - Characters
Jones' neighbor, he finds a way to profit from Animal Farm by forming an alliance with the pigs.
The most cynical of all the animals, the farm's donkey doubts the leadership of the pigs but is faithfully devoted to Boxer.
The farm's sheepdog, she keeps tabs on the pigs and is among the first to suspect that something is wrong at Animal Farm.
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 Animal Farm
The overworked animals often suffer from hunger and cold; however, they never lose sight of the truth that they are members of Animal Farm, the only farm owned and run by animals.
Napoleon announces that he is abolishing several practices at the farm such as the use of the "Comrade," Sunday marches, and the horn and hoof symbols on the flag.
As the animals peek in the farmhouse windows, to their amazement they can no longer tell who are the pigs and who are the humans.
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 Animal Farm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It is a tribute to the actors that they bring life to their animal characters, even when they are almost crawling on their knees and their faces are hidden by the masks.
After the animals take over, the pigs subtly begin to impose their will on the others, with the claim that they are smarter and know better how to protect the rest..
The animals make up a sort of constitution, professing "animalism", a sort of communism, and every thing is great at first, but as time goes by, slight disagreements emerge and the pigs begin to argue with each other.
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 NovelGuide: Animal Farm: Character Profiles
The parallels between crop failure of the farm and the depression in the 1930's are clear.
Jones first used Moses to keep the animals working, and he was successful in many ways before the rebellion.
Many animals consider her a trader when she is seen being petted by a human from a neighboring farm.
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 Animal Farm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Animal Farm is a satire that uses its characters to symbolize leaders of the Russian Revolution.
Led by the pigs, the farm animals continue to do their work, only with more pride, knowing that they are working for themselves, as opposed to working for their human master, Farmer Jones.
The working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their work.
essay.studyarea.com /Old_Essay/english/a_farm.html   (780 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Animal Farm: Books: George Orwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This element of Animal Farm instills a sense of doubt in the reader that maybe the history that has been taught to him during his entire lifetime is simply a biased or cleverly fabricated story created by the corrupt leaders of the past.
All the newly liberated animals were filled with joy and jubilation as well as optimism and they managed to organize themselves very effectively and worked very hard to produce a bumper harvest in their first year of self-rule.
The animals came up with seven commandments to ensure that all animals adhere to a high moral and ethical standard in conformity with the egalitarian principles of fraternity, equality and justice for all.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451526341?v=glance   (3161 words)

  
 Animal Farm: Mr. Jones
Jones represents the old government, the last of the Czars.
So Jones and the old government are successfully uprooted by the animals.
From the start of the novel, Mr Jones is seen as an unfit manager of the farm.
www.animal-farm.8k.com /mrjones.htm   (193 words)

  
 Animal Farm
It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine".
This is a simple and tragic fable, telling of what happens when animals drive out Mr Jones and attempt to run their farm themselves.
Compare and contrast the novel you have chosen with "Animal Farm".
www.geocities.com /farzu_2000/animalfarm.htm   (412 words)

  
 Animal Farm
Jones is seen by the animals on his farm as a very cruel owner.
They rename it "Animal Farm" and set about proving they can do a better job of governing than the humans.
Jones' favorite pet, later to become the pet of the pigs.
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 George Orwell's Animal Farm: Lessons for Today
The farm animals who inhabit the Manor Farm are mistreated and abused by Farmer Jones.
They enlist the farm's dogs as enforcers to put down any dissent, and they teach the sheep (rank and file) to speak the party line on demand.
As time passes, the Seven Commandments (Animal Farm's Constitution) undergoes subtle changes as the pigs rewrite it to suit their own agenda.
www.stentorian.com /animfarm.html   (2367 words)

  
 Animal Farm
Interestingly, there are many similarities between the history of communist governance in the Soviet Union and with the events of George Orwell's Animal Farm.
For those that still do not believe George Orwell's novel Animal Farm was a criticism of communist governance, this page is for you.
The famous phrase "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others," is not directed at the contemporary capitalist state.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/7795/animalfarm.html   (200 words)

  
 Study Guide-Animal farm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
  After the humans had left, describe the actions of the animals.
  What were some of the benefits of the animals running the farm that summer?
  Describe the retirement plans for Animal Farm.
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