Textual analysis

            My textual analysis is related to Chapter five. First of all it is talking about Mollie, the female horse on the farm, she becomes an increasing burden on Animal Farm: she arrives late for work, accepts treats from men associated with nearby farms, and generally behaves contrary to the rules of animal farm. She is very changeable with her behavior. It is different from the other animals on Animal Farm. Mollie didn’t like and want to  get rid of the revolution because she desires to get attention from humans. Eventually she disappears, she was lured away by a fat, red-faced man who stroked her coat and fed her sugar; now she pulls his carriage. None of the other animals ever mentions her name again.

          This part of the book fits into the novel because there this is pretty similar to Russian Revolution, Mollie compares to traitors who will revolt. Mollie disappearing from the farm is a small comparison to the Russian Revolution but it still indicates the fact of going after what you want and leaving the rest behind.

         In chapter Five, the passage mainly focuses on animals meeting. It’s about the disagreement between Snowball and Napoleon. Snowball can prove a better speaker and debater, but Napoleon can better canvass for support in between meetings. Snowball’s idea is to build a windmill, with which the animals could generate electricity and automate many farming tasks, bringing new comforts to the animals’ lives. But Napoleon contends that the animals should attend to their current needs rather than plan for future. Napoleon gives a strange whimper, nine enormous dogs charge into the barn, attack Snowball, and chase him off the farm. The other animals return to Napoleon’s side. Squealer explains to them that Napoleon is making a great sacrifice in taking the leadership responsibility. These statements placate the animals Squealer explains that Snowball was a traitor and a criminal. Eventually, the animals come to accept this event and snow ball was banished from the farm, however, Napoleon finally takes snowball’s idea and announce that he used his apparent opposition as a maneuver to oust the wicked Snowball. So the animals accept his explanation without question.

            This chapter mainly illustrates Napoleon’s corrupt and power-hungry motivations. He openly seizes power for himself, banishes Snowball with no justification, the similar situation with policies of Russia, Stalin forced Trotsky from Russia and seized control of the country after Lenin’s death. Orwell’s Trotsky was eventually murdered in Mexico, but Stalin continued to evoke him as a phantom threat, the symbol of all enemy forces, I think this is the best symbol to describe these two leaders.

       This chapter in some ways represent the climax of the tension that has been building from the beginning. Since the animals’ initial victory over Mr. Jones, we have suspected the motives of the pig intelligentsia and Napoleon in particular: Now, when Napoleon sets his dogs on Snowball, he proves that his socialist rhetoric about the common good is quite empty. Napoleon has been deliberating his seizure of power ever since he first took control of the dogs’ training, Thus,the banishment of Snowball constitutes the culmination of long-held resentments and aspirations and climactically justifies our feelings of uneasiness about Napoleon.

Propaganda

propaganda is a form of communication aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. Propaganda in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. There are many examples of propaganda in Animal Farm. Such as Seven Commandments from Napolearn. Or the pig use “Beasts of England” as their propaganda to persuade the other animals to believe their life will be better than their previous life. On the other hand, Napolean tries to use the fall of windmill, creating a fake story and spreading around information, convince the other animal to critique and misunderstood snowball, the other leader.

 In today’s society, human beings have a lot of similar examples of Propaganda, we can make a list on that 1. Media report ( Includes TV, Radio ,and magazines and newspaper) 2. Preach religious belief 3. Meeting and lecture (class) 4. Rumors and scandals

character list for Animal Farm

Napoleon 

The pig who emerges as the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. Based on Joseph Stalin, Napoleon uses military force to threat the other animals and restate his power. In his supreme craftiness, Napoleon proves more irresponsible than his counterpart, Snowball.(class note: depth of characte)

Snowball 

 The pig who challenges Napoleon for control of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. Based on Leon Trotsky, Snowball is smart, passionate, persuavsive, and less subtle and devious than his counterpart, Napoleon. Snowball seems to win the loyalty of the other animals and cement his power(class note: in change of different reads, ambitious smart)

Boxer 

 Boxer shows much devotion to Animal Farm’s ideals but little ability to think about them independently. He naïvely trusts the pigs to make all his decisions for him. His two mottoes are “I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right.”

The often drunk farmer who runs the  Farm before the animals stage their Rebellion and establish Animal Farm. Mr. Jones is an unkind master who indulges himself while his animals lack food; he thus represents Tsar Nicholas II, whom the Russian Revolution ousted.

Mr. Frederick 

The tough, intelligent operator of Pinchfield, a neighboring farm. Based on Adolf Hitler, the ruler of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, Mr. Frederick proves an untrustworthy neighbor.

 

Mr. Pilkington 

The easygoing gentleman farmer who runs Foxwood, a neighboring farm. Mr. Frederick’s bitter enemy, Mr. Pilkington represents the capitalist governments of England and the USA.

 

Mr. Whymper 

 The human laywer whom Napoleon hires to represent Animal Farm in society. Mr. Whymper’s entry into the Animal Farm community initiates contact between Animal Farm and human society, alarming the common animals.

 

Jessie and Bluebell 

 Two dogs, each of whom gives birth early in the novel. Napoleon takes the puppies in order to “educate” them.

 

Minimus 

The poet pig who writes verse about Napoleon and pens the banal patriotic song “Animal Farm, Animal Farm” to replace the earlier idealistic hymn “Beasts of England,” which Old Major passes on to the others.

Moses

  Moses plays only a small role in Animal Farm, but Orwell uses him to explore how communism exploits religion as something with which to pacify the oppressed. (class note: spy for humans)

 

Mollie -  The vain, flighty mare who pulls Mr. Jones’s carriage. Mollie craves the attention of human beings and loves being groomed and pampered. She has a difficult time with her new life on Animal Farm, as she misses wearing ribbons in her mane and eating sugar cubes. She represents the petit bourgeoisie that fled from Russia a few years after the Russian Revolution.

Revolution

          Revolution occurs when people dissatisfy with their life situation. That’s the reason come up with peoples’ intense desire to change. A lot of revolutions will be violent because it generally divides into two entire different groups, they couldn’t solve the problem on the blob, so it has to end up with violence. A revolution usually promote a change in political policies, and the change starts basically between civilian and governments, for example, the government never changes their economic policies if people are still suffered or lost their basic rights from the policies. A big change will lead people to overthrow the political and economical structure of their lives. The government or leaders need to take care of their citizens and if they don’t then they will lose control over the people because they will take it into their own hands.

            The Cultural Revolution in China started from 1966.5 to 1976.10. this revolution was a large scale political campaign started by the late iron chair man Mao Ze Tong. Afraid of China’s heading for the so-called revisionist road, which was alien to the orthodox Marxist doctrine, Mao gathered thousands of radicals to aid him in his attack on the leadership of the Communist Party. Law-and-order was destroyed. The whole country was in complete upheaval. Good-willed as the intent might seem, however, the CR turned out to be a nightmare and disaster in the history of China’s development. Official Chinese Communist Party documents termed it as a colossal problem which is in no conformity with revolution in any sense of the word. My experience with Cultural Revolution as I remember is that everywhere there were Red Guards, those Mao’s crazy supporters. The feverish RGs went so far as to resort to violence, dragging out government officials, blocking railroad traffic, hampering production in factories, fighting among themselves, destroying cultural relics. Members of the family belonged to and believed in different Red Guards organizations. They argued, debated, and there was no peace at home. At last, they fought with fists. A wrong revolution lead a problem-minded leader made common people suffer. This is the real picture of Cultural Revolution

MLA practise

1.     (1) Newspaper

         (2)   Reagan, Michael D. “Curing the Crisis: Options for America’s Health Care.”

                                            West View Press [Boulder] 1992.Print.

2.      (1)Journal

           (2) Goldscheider, Frances K, Linda J. White, and Christina Witsberger “Nonfamily

                   Living and the Erosion of Traditional Family Orientations Among Young

                   Adults” American Sociological Review 51. ( 1992): 541-554.Print.

3.      (1) Journal

         (2)  Fisher, Janet H. “Comparing Electronic Journals to Print Journals: Are There Savings?” Technology and Scholarly Communication (1999): 95-101. Print.

4.  (1) Online Newspapers

      (2) Bruggencate, Jan T. “Blues Shark May Be on Road to Recovery.” Honolulu Advertiser. 18 June 2000. Web. 6 Nov. 2000.

 5.      (1) Personal Interview

           (2)  Elliot, Carmen. Personal interview. 10 Oct. 2000

 6.      (1) Website

           (2) Harden, Mark. Picasso the Legend. The Archive. Web. 6 Nov. 2000

The Biblical references

In my personal points of view, the systems of republic of Gilead are based on the Old Testament beliefs from Catholic, inthe Old Testament, one of the original founder, named Moses, he took his people through the land of “Milk and honey” in order to set them free, but this treatment only serves for the important members of the Government .Important meaning all male, the system of republic of Gilead has the similar situation with the Old Testament. The society of Gilead put the Old Testament into new comtexts.“ Blessed be the Fruit” “ May the Lord Open” those greeting are emphasized that what handmaids are there for, which implies that the responsibility for handmaids are toreproduce.

The republic of Gilead utilized biblical quotation to satisfy male’s domination, but it uses them very carefully andoften inaccurately. The author coordinates with biblical references has used a biblical name for the place where the book is set.  The OldTestament states that women are solely child-bearers, they are used for sex in order that they reproduce. It acts thesame way with the women’s situation in republic of Gilead. The fundamentalist for republic of Gilead is named after aplace in the Old Testament, a mountainous region east of Jordan. As a matter of fact, “Gilead “ is a place of evildoers,combines with blood” The evildoers mentioned are robbers and prostitution, and the prostitution obviously allude to Jezebel’s, the local brothel in Gilead. The communal ethics of Gilead are based on the Old Testament, where male’s superiority is justified as the rules of God.

on the other hand, the official vocabulary of Gilead combines regilious terminology and biblical references, servants are called “Marthas” refers to a home character in the New Testament; the local workers  are “Guardians of the Faith”; soldiers are “Angels”; and the Commanders are named “Commanders of the Faithful.” All the stores have biblical names such as “ Loaves and Fishes, All Flesh, Milk and Honey”. Using religious terminology is good  to describe people, ranks in pious language. It reflects that Politics and religion sleep in the same bed in Gilead, where the slogan “God is a National Resource” predominates.

The list of reading response to materials of Handmaid’s Tale

1.The novel emphasizes the constraint and limitation Gilead Imposes, and the narrator’s growing resistance.

2. Reeducation center and handmaid’s small room are two important places of the novel.

3.Feminist dystopias often deal with women’s loss of language.

 4. Narrative is shaped and threatened by political repression and interpretation.

 5. Novel begins – handmaid’s narrative- exploring silence and speech, oppression and resistance. Ends with a male scholar’s narrative—questioning the limits of narrative and interpretation.

6. Birth handmaid’s name are unknown

 7. Offred  creates her subjectivity through her narrative. Marginalized by society.

 8. The story of handmaid’s tale moves by flashback, mediation and present-tense narration

 9. During Offred’s observation, Offred  grows more politically aware and self-conscious

 10. The Color coded, become interchangeable identified only by biological function.

11. The system of republic Gilead makes all handmaid’s Loss of individuality, loss of real name, are labeled as a possession of the commander she serves. Loss of their discourse and speech loss of writing.

12. Brainwashing in which women are required to revise the narratives of their past lives. For political reasons the handmaids are forced to revise the narratives of their previous lives.

13. Gilead replicates American Society’s oppression of women, illustrate censorship and sexual repression. Gilead builds on American foundations