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Topic: Old Major (Animal Farm)

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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.
		Old Major proposes a solution to the animals' desperate plight under the Jones "administration" when he inspires a rebellion of sorts among the animals.
		Many animals consider her a trader when she is seen being petted by a human from a neighboring farm.
	www.novelguide.com /animalfarm/characterprofiles.html (3706 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Animal Farm by George Orwell
		In the novel's opening scene, Old Major, the "prized Middle White Boar," and the oldest and wisest of all beasts on Manor Farm, gathers the animals and tells them of a vision that came to him in a dream.
		Led by two of the farm's pigs, Napoleon and Snowball (for the pigs soon prove the cleverest of all the animals on the farm), the animals mount a successful attack, rid themselves of Jones and his human counterparts, and take control of the farm.
		Under the leadership of the pigs, farm labor is organized and divided among the animals, and a list of seven commandments is established - deemed unalterable - under which all animals on the farm would adhere.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/animal_farm1.asp (1490 words)

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		Old Major (so he was always called, though the name under which he had been exhibited was Willingdon Beauty) was so highly regarded on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose an hour's sleep in order to hear what he had to say.
		Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered.
		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.
	gutenberg.net.au /ebooks01/0100011.txt (24162 words)

	Essay: Power in Animal Farm - Coursework.Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Old Major, who is a respected animal on the farm, had given a speech to stir the animals emotion into rebellion.
		“Old Major was so highly regarded on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose an hour’s sleep in order to hear what he had to say” (Orwell 15).
		Old Major’s dream was for the earth to be ruled by animals.
	www.coursework.info /GCSE/English_Literature/Novels_&_Short_Stories/By_Author/George_Orwell/Animal_Farm/Power_in_Animal_Farm_L76836.html (300 words)

	--= Animal Farm =--
		Animal farm skips the short rule of Lenin, and has Napoleon leading the farm from the beginning of the revolution.
		All three are mentioned as being present at old major's meeting, but Pincher is never mentioned again (except in the 'epilogue', when it is mentioned that all three dogs are dead) - Jesse and Bluebell are the mothers of the 'pups' which serve as Napoleon's bodyguards (and I assume Pincher is the father).
		In the morning the animals came out of their stalls to find that the flagstaff had been blown down and an elm tree at the foot of the orchard had been plucked up like a radish.
	www.newspeakdictionary.com /go-animal_farm.html (3140 words)

	Animal Farm (Essay 1)
		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.
		Old major tells the animals that the source of the problem is man, they must overthrow man to abolish tyranny and hunger.
	www.studyworld.com /literature/novels/animal_farm_essay_1.htm (794 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.
		Pilkingtons, the animals meet in the barn to hear an oration delivered by the show pig, Old Major.
		The animals begin to grumble that the pigs are breaking the commandments of animalism: living in the house and sleeping in beds.
	www.turnerlearning.com /tntlearning/animalfarm/afscript.html (826 words)

	Characters
		She perhaps understands the ideals of animalism better than Boxer, and she remains loyal to these doctrines with the hope that Old Major’s dream will eventually be fulfilled.
		She does agree that making the animals literate is a good idea, and attempts to persuade the sparrows to learn how to read.
		The farm is a means for supporting his drunkenness and he puts very little effort into the farm, treating his livestock cruelly.
	www.bookwolf.com /Free_Booknotes/Animal_Farm_by_George_Orwell/Characters_-_Animal_Farm_/characters_-_animal_farm_.html (1181 words)

	Animal Farm: Utopia
		Animal Farm: Utopia The definition of Utopia is "no place." A Utopia is an ideal society in which the social, political, and economic evils afflicting human kind have been wiped out.
		Old Major explains his dreams and ideas to all the animals before he dies.
		Old Major explains his ideas to all the animals: Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
	www.radessays.com /viewpaper/55963/Animal_Farm:_Utopia.html (193 words)

	NovelGuide: Animal Farm: Novel Summary: Chapter 1
		Obviously most of the chapter is intended to spark pity and a sense of sympathy for the poor, suffering farm animals, but the old Major's words are very telling.
		Perhaps even the old sow himself is too caught up in emotion to understand the complexities of the solution he submits.
		Toward the end of the section the animals vote on whether wild animals, like rats and rabbits, are going to be considered their friends or foes.
	www.novelguide.com /animalfarm/novelsummary.html (479 words)

	ANIMAL FARM
		ANIMAL FARM was filmed in and around a specially built studio in the Luggala Valley, on the Guinness Estate in County Wicklow, Ireland, a one-hour drive south of Dublin.
		At Jim Henson's Creature Shop in London, 14 animals were built to represent the animals of ANIMAL FARM: four pigs (Old Major, Napoleon, Snowball, Squealer), two horses (Boxer and Mollie), Jessie the sheepdog, Benjamin the donkey, Muriel the goat, Moses the raven, a sheep, a rat, a chicken and a duck.
		Old Major, the grandfatherly philosopher of change in ANIMAL FARM, is generally regarded to have been modeled on Karl Marx.
	alt.tnt.tv /movies/tntoriginals/animalfarm/bts/prodfacts.html (875 words)

	LininmajoNapol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Orwell’s first character’s name, Old Major, is similar to one of Lenin’s nicknames, "the old one." In Animal Farm Old Major initiated the idea that the animals’ rebellion was inevitable.
		Old Major portrayed the young Lenin before he had actual control of the running of the government.
		Also in Animal Farm Napoleon adopted a group of puppies that he later used as his own secret police; Lenin too was the first to organize his own secret police, the Cheka, shortly after the Whites tried to assassinate him.
	www.milford.k12.il.us /MHSsite/students/studentproj/animal/allegoricalsymbolism/vilininmajnap.htm (301 words)

	Animal Farm
		Animal Farm is the only one of his books that shows not the least sign of having been sweated over, flowing absolutely clear from start to finish, as though the author had needed to do nothing but copy it out.
		Animal Farm is conceived and written in the classic tradition of satire, the tradition of receding planes, which gives it precisely the depth of every reader.
		The final scene when the bewildered animals look from their ruling pigs to the neighbouring men cannot tell which is which, is already inherent in the opening where the old boar Major talks of a glories revolutionary animal Utopia to come.
	www.aroigui.com /aroigui/AnimalFarm.html (1690 words)

	SparkNotes: Animal Farm: Plot Overview
		Old Major, a prize-winning boar, gathers the animals of the Manor Farm for a meeting in the big barn.
		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 (863 words)

	Animal Farm Character Profiles - Charles' George Orwell Links
		Old Major: Old Major is the first major character described by Orwell in Animal Farm.
		Napoleon: Napoleon is Orwell's chief villain in Animal Farm.
		Later, the dogs do even more dastardly things when they are instructed to kill the animals labelled "disloyal." Stalin, too, had his own special force of "helpers." Really there are followers loyal to any politician or government leader, but Stalin in particular needed a special police force to eliminate his opponents.
	www.netcharles.com /orwell/articles/col-afcp.htm (3721 words)

	Amazon.com: Animal Farm (1999) (1999) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The politics of "Animalism" are initially effective, ousting enemy humans according to rules ordained by Old Major, the barnyard pig whose death sets the stage for the corruptive influence of the pig Napoleon, who cites superior intelligence as his right to superiority.
		Orwell's "Animal Farm" was a thinly disguised allegory for the failure of the Russian Revolution.
		Remember that Animal Farm was at least partially based on the Soviet Union, and when this movie was made (1999) the soviet union had fallen and it looked as if we had new hope for a democratic russia under the leadership of borris yeltsin.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000365DR?v=glance (2018 words)

	Quotes from George Orwell's Animal Farm - Charles' George Orwell Links
		No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal.
		But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?" The classic hypocrisy seen here is too hard to miss.
		Of course, Squealer's mission is to keep everything subjective in the minds of the animals.
	www.netcharles.com /orwell/articles/col-afquotes.htm (428 words)

	Animal Farm: A Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The animals greet Old Major's vision with great enthusiasm.
		They rename the property Animal Farm and dedicate themselves to achieving Old Major's dream.
		The cart-horse Boxer devotes himself to the cause with particular zeal, committing his great strength to the prosperity of the farm and adopting as a personal maxim the affirmation "I will work harder." At first, Animal Farm prospers.
	www.radessays.com /link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=10050 (261 words)

	Animal Farm
		Jones is seen by the animals on his farm as a very cruel owner.
		Spurred on by the words of the sage pig, Old Major, the animals stage a successful rebellion to drive Mr.
		Peter Vaughan as Old Major: For Old Major's voice, the pig who starts everything with his philosophy, I wanted someone who sounded like a grandfather type, but with a really strong voice.
	www.mindspring.com /~widgett/html/animal_farm.html (1222 words)

	Animal Farm (1999) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Plot Outline: The animals of a farm successfully revolt against its human owner, only to slide into a more brutal tyranny among themselves.
		Orwell never repudiates Old Major's message, as does this movie.
		The movie shows that all the animals need is the right master, and everything will be happy.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0204824 (315 words)

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