Animal Farm Allegories and Propaganda

The Allegory: 

Match the character to who they most likely represent in Soviet History.

Czar Nicholas II

A drunken leader who treats the workers like garbage.  The Russians eventually rebel against him to form the Soviet Union.

• Napoleon

• Old Major

• Farmer Jones

• Snowball

The Allegory: 

Match the character to who they most likely represent in Soviet History.

The KGB - Stalin's secret police who acted as bodyguards and carried out his executions

• Mollie

• Boxer and Clover

• Benjamin

• The dogs

The Allegory: 

Match the character to who they most likely represent in Soviet History.

Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin

The man who created the idea of Communism and the man who brought the ideas back to Russia.  In other words, the inspirations for the Russian Revolution

• Napoleon

• Old Major

• Farmer Jones

• Snowball

The Allegory: 

Match the character to who they most likely represent in Soviet History.

The true believers of Communism.  They were loyal and worked hard to make the Soviet Union succeed and were treated like garbage by their leaders.  

• Mollie

• Boxer and Clover

• Benjamin

• The dogs

The Allegory: 

Match the character to who they most likely represent in Soviet History.

Leon Trotsky

Stalin's rival who eventually got exiled (run out of) the Soviet Union by Stalin.

• Napoleon

• Old Major

• Farmer Jones

• Snowball

The Allegory: 

Match the character to who they most likely represent in Soviet History.

The really smart people and very old people of the Soviet Union.  They understood exactly what was happening the entire time, but felt powerless to stop it.  So they just let it happen.

• Mollie

• Boxer and Clover

• Benjamin

• The dogs

The Allegory: 

Match the character to who they most likely represent in Soviet History.

Joseph Stalin

The ruthless dictator of the Soviet Union who murdered his opponents / enemies and took advantage of those who believed in Communism

• Napoleon

• Old Major

• Farmer Jones

• Snowball

The Allegory: 

Match the character to who they most likely represent in Soviet History.

The wealthy people who had it really good before the Revolution, didn't want the Revolution, and left to go to another country soon after the Revolution

• Mollie

• Boxer and Clover

• Benjamin

• The dogs

What kind of Propaganda is this?

… You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?

• Rhetorical Question and Plain Folk

• Bandwagon

• Testimonial

• Rhetorical Question and Glittering Generalities

What kind of Propaganda is this?

Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science,

comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig.

• Rhetorical Question and Plain Folk

• Bandwagon

• Facts and Figures

• Rhetorical Question and Finger Pointing