1、George Orwell,His real name is Eric Arthur Blair .,Early life -Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903 to British parents in Motihari(印度的一个城镇 ), Bengal Presidency(孟加拉管辖区 ), British India(英属印度 ). There, Blairs father, Richard Walmesley Blair, worked for the Opium(鸦片） Department of the Civil Servic
2、e. His mother, Ida Mabel Blair (born Limouzin), brought him to England at the age of one.,He did not see his father again until 1907, when Richard visited England for three months before leaving again. Eric had an older sister named Marjorie, and a younger sister named Avril. He would later describe
3、 his familys background as “lower-upper-middle class“.,At the age of six, Blair was sent to a small Anglican parish school（圣公会教区学校 ）in Henley-on-Thames, which his sister had attended before him. After Blair finished his studies at Eton, his family could not pay for university and he had no prospect
4、of winning a scholarship, so In 1922 he joined the Indian Imperial Police（ 印度帝国警察 ）， serving at Katha（缅甸城市） and Moulmein（缅甸港口） in Burma.,He came to hate imperialism（帝国主义）, and when he returned to England in 1927， he decided to resign and become a writer. He later used his Burmese experiences for the
5、 novel Burmese Days 缅甸岁月(1934) and in such essays as A Hanging (1931), and Shooting an Elephant (1936).,Question,Do you know any other works of him?1933 巴黎伦敦落魄记（Down And OutI In Paris And London） 1935 牧师的女儿（A Clergymans Daughter） 1936 让叶兰在风中飞舞（Keep The Aspidistra Flying）（另译为保持叶兰繁茂） 1938 向加泰罗尼亚致敬（Hom
6、age to Catalonia） 1939 上来透口气（Coming Up For Air） 1940 鲸鱼之中（Inside the Whale） 1941 狮子与独角兽（The Lion and The Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius） 1945 民族主义的基本特征（Notes on Nationalism）、动物庄园（Animal Farm） 1946 穷人之死（How the Poor Die） 1949 甘地的思考（Reflections on Gandhi） 1950 一九八四（Nineteen Eighty-Four）,198
7、4 is one of Anti-Utopia Trilogy （反乌托邦三部曲） （two others are Brave New World and We),All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. 所有动物一律平等，但有些动物比其他动物更平等。,Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. 谁控制了过去，谁就控制了未来；谁控制了现在，谁就控制了过去。,Freedom i
8、s the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows. 所谓自由就是可以说二加二等于四的自由。承认这一点，其他一切就迎刃而解。,In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. 在一个欺骗的时代，说真话是一种革命行为。,quotes,Old Major died peacefully in his sleep. His body was buried at the foot of the orchar
9、d. This was early in March. During the next three months there was much secret activity. Majors speech had given to the more intelligent animals on the farm a completely new outlook on life. They did not know when the Rebellion predicted by Major would take place, they had no reason for thinking tha
10、t it would be within their own lifetime, but they saw clearly that it was their duty to prepare for it. Excerpted from CHAPTER II of Animal Farm,Animal Farm,Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novel by George Orwell, published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book refle
11、cts events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into theStalin era in the Soviet Union.1,Orwell was inspired to write Animal Farm in part by his experiences in a Trotskyist group during the Spanish Civil War. Though Animal Farm was written as an attack on a specific government, i
12、ts general themes of oppression, suffering, and injustice have far broader application; modern readers have come to see Orwells book as a powerful attack on any political, rhetorical, or military power that seeks to control human beings unjustly.,Reputation,Time magazine chose the book as one of the
13、 100 best English-language novels (1923-2005). It also places at No. 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996 and is also included in the Great Books of the Western World.,Main idea,AnimalFarm is a political allegory novel, it portrayed the
14、 premeditation,developement and ending.Animal farm is a novel which satires the revolution of Soviet Union. In the novel, the author use vivid words to depict the insurgence in manor farm and the process from original peace and happiness to a serious class society.,Question,Have you ever read Animal
15、 Farm? Do you know any characters of this book ?,Who is Who and What is What,Mankind Mr. Jones Czar Nicholas II Mrs. Jones Alexandra (Nicholass wife) Mr. Pilkington Leader of England Mr. Frederick Leader of Germany (many references to Hitler) Mr. Whymper Capitalist who did business with the Soviet U
16、nion.,Who is Who and What is What,Animals Napoleon Joseph Stalin Squealer Russian Media Snowball Leon Trotsky Old Major Karl Marx/Vladimir Lenin Boxer Working Class Mollie Upper Class Dogs Military/Police Moses Russian Orthodox Church Hens Peasant Farmers Sheep Masses following Stalin,Who is Who and
17、 What is What,Places Animal Farm The Soviet Union Manor Farm Russia Foxwood England Pinchfield Germany Willingdon Europe England Represents the entire world Farmhouse The Kremlin Sugarcandy Mountain - Heaven,Who is Who and What is What,Things and Events Animalism Communism Animal Committees Soviet C
18、ommittees Beast of England Ideology of Communism Windmill Stalins Five Year Plans The Animal Revolt Russian Revolution Battle of Cowshed Red October The Hens revolt Ukrainian peasants bitter resistance to collective farming. Destruction of the Windmill Failure of Stalins plans Selling of the wood to
19、 Frederick Nazi-Soviet pact Battle of the Windmill Battle of Stalingrad (German invasion of Russia during World War II),Theme,the rebellion of animals symbolizes the revolution of Soviet Union and all the animals in the novel represent the proletariat(无产阶级)human beings represent the bourgeoisie（资产阶级
20、）.the success of these animals is the symbol of success of proletariat in soviet.,At the end of the story, the pigs dominated the farm and the farm ultimately becomes a autocratic class society, which actually satires the corruption of the governors in soviet and their life in the farm after the rev
21、olution.,Brief Comment,In this master piece, the author described a totalitarianism society and characterized a horrible future. He detailed the descriptions to nature of the totalitarianism. Snowball persuade the animals to drive their master away-At that moment Marx and Engels wrote the draft of t
22、he “Communism Theory” and it influence the first communist.,Napoleon betrayed his original intention and became more atrocity then before-Stalin and hid Great Purge. The modified disciplineAll animals are equal ,but some animals are more equal than others-Orwell thought that under the appearance of the Communism, we can only find the legitimationof the exploitation.,The end Thank you,高捷 奚佳雯 仇祯英,
