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Animal Farm Study Guide

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What is significant about how the animals arrange themselves as they gather to hear Major? What might this arrangement say about future meetings or events?
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What is significant about how the animals arrange themselves as they gather to hear Major? What might this arrangement say about future meetings or events?
The pigs and dogs sit in the front row. The other animals arrange themselves behind the pigs and dogs. In the future the pigs will be in charge, and the dogs will guard the pigs.
According to Major, what is the cause of all the animals' problems?
Man is the only real enemy. Man is the only animal who produces nothing, but consumes what animals produce. Get rid of man and all of the animals' problems will be solved.
What motto does Major give the animals?
He urges them to remember whatever goes on two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes on four legs or has wings is a friend. He also urges them to refrain from coming to resemble man and lists man's vices.
What are the commandments Major gives the animals? Can you think of ways each of them could be considered a vice?
(a)No animal is ever to live in a house.
~Caring more about possessions
(b)No animal is ever to sleep in a bed.
~Becoming lazy, spending too much time in bed sleeping instead of working, luxury
(c)No animal is ever to wear clothes.
~Pride in appearance
(d)No animal is ever to drink alcohol.
~Drinking to excess, forgetting duties
(e)No animal is ever to smoke tobacco.
~Ruining health, expensive habit
(f)No animal is ever to touch money.
~Money corrupts
(g)No animal is ever to engage in trade.
~Profit making
(h)No animal is ever to tyrannize his own kind.
~Slavery
(i)No animal must ever kill any other animal.
~Murder
(j)All animals are equal.
~Competition is self-serving
Examine the song "Beasts of England" as poetry. What imagery is present? What is the message? Why do the animals like it so much that they memorize it on the spot? To what emotions and needs does it appeal?
The song paints a vivid picture of the day when animals are at last free of man and all the symbols of slavery such as whips and spurs are gone. It appeals to their dreams of a more prosperous future, an abundance of food and the absence of cruelty, and the need for hope to keep an individual from giving up.