Lesson overview: Allegory
View in classroomThis lesson will tell us what an allegory is and how it is related to 'Animal Farm.'
Transcript
24 lessons in Animal Farm:
- Who was George Orwell?
- Orwell's writing
- Allegory
- Animal Farm as an allegory
- Introducing Animal Farm
- Old Major's speech
- Tyranny
- The pigs take charge
- The Rebellion
- Animalism
- Snowball and Napoleon
- Deceit on the farm
- Battle of the Cowshed
- The power struggle
- Snowball's expulsion
- Naivety and manipulation
- Napoleon and the farmhouse
- Squealer's rhetoric
- The executions
- Napoleon's leadership
- Betrayal
- Boxer
- The power of propaganda
- Animals or men?