Animal Farm Symbolism Timeline
Category: Other
Updated: 8 Oct 2018
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Created byCOLTON CLARK
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Founding of Animal Farm
" Then Snowball (for it was Snowball who was best at
writing) took a brush between the two knuckles of his trotter,
painted out MANOR FARM from the top bar of the gate and in
its place painted ANIMAL FARM" (Orwell 8)
Soviet Union FormedOld Major tells farm animals of Animalism
"'Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because nearly
the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings.
There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single
word−Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, ]
and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever'" (Orwell 2)
Karl Marx publishes the Communist ManifestoOld Major dies
"Three nights later old Major died peacefully in his sleep.
His body was buried at the foot of the orchard" (Orwell 5).
Karl Marx diesAnimal Farm renamed Manor Farm
" the name "Animal Farm" had been abolished. Henceforward the
farm was to be known as "The Manor Farm"−which, he believed, was its
correct and original name" (Orwell 42)
Soviet Union dissolved and renamed Russia
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