1. ANIMAL FARM Themes, Motifs & Symbols "The flag was green, Snowball explained, to represent the green fields of England, while the horn and the hoof signified the future Republic of the Animals which would arise when the human race had finally been overthrown."

4. Animal Farm is most famous in the West as a stinging critique of the history and rhetoric of the Russian Revolution.

6. Trotsky vs. Stalin

9. Stalin, allegedly signing a death warrant.

11. MEET GEORGE

20. THE HARD WORK

23. The Commandments are slowly rewritten one by one until the last one reads: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

27. All of these songs serve as propaganda, one of the major conduits of social control.

29. Military awards, large parades, and new songs all increase as the state attempts to reinforce the loyalty of the animals.

32. Manor Farm, symbolizes Russia and the Soviet Union under Communist Party rule

34. The barn represents the collective memory of a modern nation

36. The great windmill symbolizes the pigs’ manipulation of the other animals for their own gain. From an allegorical point of view, the windmill represents the enormous modernization projects undertaken in Soviet Russia after the Russian Revolution.

37. THE END