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Research Paper Graphic Org - Animal Farm
Research Paper Graphic Org - Animal Farm
You cant begin a quality essay without establishing a guiding statement from which all ideas extend.
Within the statement name the character, his beginning personality and/or behaviors, changes and ending traits in broad terms. Those
three things will be the foundation of your body paragraphs.
You MUST use phrases and key words from the prompt or assignment.
Thesis
Claim
Statement /
Orwell takes Napoleons terrible leadership to demonstrate how too much power can lead to corruption.
Your response in each row should contain ONE SENTENCE. You will combine the sentences later to create a
cohesive analytical paragraph.
Introduction
1. Make a general
comment about the
subject matter of your
thesis stmt / claim
4. Explain why it is
essential that this
character be analyzed
along with this theme.
Psychological, emotional,
physical results, etc. Be
broad but specific to your
chosen character
Leaders will strive with honesty and commitment, but will fail with too much control.
George Orwell, an English writer, illustrates how too much leadership can lead to
corruption in his novel, Animal Farm.
Napoleon started out as an uneducated pig who took footsteps of a leader, but he soon
turns into the leader and gets taken over by power and corruption.
After the death of Old Major, Napoleon had to take place as leader and the animals trusted
him but that trust quickly faded away.
Napoleon takes his place as the next great leader of the farm and tries to make the farm
thrive; However, his selfishness and careless attitude tears the farm apart.
Orwell takes Napoleons terrible leadership to demonstrate how too much power can lead
to corruption.
6. Thesis Statement / Claim
Topic Sentence
Make a statement
about what this
paragraph will
contain.
2.
3.
Include a primary
source quote to
support your analysis
4.
Napoleon used his power to satisfy his own wants, disregarding the well-being of the other
animals.
Napoleon was characterized as incredibly selfish and greedy throughout the entire story.
When he realized the farm had a storage of food, Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly.
He ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as
a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death (Orwell n. pag.).
Napoleon didnt care about the hens starving or losing another animal off the farm, the
only thing that mattered was having food for himself.
Critics Gillespie and Naden state that Napoleon becomes better and better at satisfying
his own goals and needs and in duping the other animals into believing that he is doing it
all for them. Each new project that takes all their energy keeps them from questioning
whether their lives are truly improved (n. pag.).
6. Why is this
statement important
to include in your
analysis? What
further insight does it
provide? How does it
relate to your topic?
7. Describe /
summarize the
characters
personality,
behaviors, etc. as
you have analyzed it
from the first several
chapters of the
novel.
Napoleon takes advantage of the fact that the animals are not very educated and tricks
them into believing all of his avaricious actions are for the welfare of the animals on the
farm.
Napoleon uses heartless tactics that eventually makes the farm the same thing they
revolted from.
Topic Sentence
Make a statement
about what this
paragraph will
contain.
9.
Napoleon will do anything to become the absolute leader of the farm and will not let
anyone stand in his way.
Napoleon is a ruthless and selfish pig who enforces fear on the other animals to get what he wants
on Animal Manor.
After the animals see what Napoleon did, they become more afraid of him and they realize
they should not contradict anything he says.
The dogs Napoleon trained dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place
just in time to escape their snapping jaws. In a moment he was out of the door and they
were after him (Orwell n. pag.).
Brockington analyses Napoleon: He is cynical, brutal, and above all pragmatic. Once in
power, he will do whatever is necessary to keep his position. The propaganda and lies, the
whip, and the vicious dogs are all part of the corruption of the dream. Ultimately, the
animals have even less than before (n. pag.).
Napoleon takes on the same characteristics as a dictator and ruins the dream for all of the
other animals who worked so hard to get that far.
14. Describe /
summarize the
characters
personality,
behaviors, etc. as
you have analyzed it
from the first several
chapters of the
novel.
Napoleon only cares about his own well-being and the power he gets out of this rebellion
rather than the welfare of the others.
Conclusion
1.
2.
Include a secondary
source quote to
support your overall
ideas of character
development and
change within the
novel.
Napoleon makes evident that absolute power will ruin the unity and trust within the
environment.
One critic says Lies and terror now rule "Animal Farm." In the ultimate reversal of Old
Major's words, "all animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than
others." One form of repression has been replaced by another (Byrne n. pag.).
Napoleon was covetous and did everything to make sure he was always the most powerful
on the farm, even if it was cold-blooded.
3.
4. Describe /
summarize the
characters
personality,
behaviors, etc. as
you have analyzed it
in this essay.
Describe what the
result is from the
characters transition
or changes. What
happens to him in
the end?
Napoleon was so caught up in the idea of autocratic power that he let the farm revert back
to what the animals worked so hard to purge, Manor Farm.
Ideas to Consider
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Finding Motivation
Everyone wants something, especially a character in a literary work. Whether a hero desperate to complete a quest, a villain
determined to stop him or a minor character along for the ride, each character in a story will have identifiable wants and needs.
Quite often, though, what a character wants is in direct opposition to what he really needs. For example, a man longing for the
attention of a woman out of his league might need to realize that hell only find true love when he sees his female sidekick in a
romantic light. At the college level, character analysis essays should go beyond simply identifying the wants and needs
motivating the characters; they should also address how the characters affect one another.
Describe the physical appearance of the character and explain what the appearance reveals about the person.
Discuss the language that the character uses throughout the work. Does the character use the same language throughout or
does his or her choice of language change from the introduction to the conclusion?
If provided, include details about the background of the character (some of these details may have to be inferred).
Where/when was the character born and raised? What kind of education does the character have? How does the character's
past experience influence what he or she does or says?
Write about the personality of the character. Does the character act on emotions or reason? What values does the character
exhibit through words or actions? Does the character have goals or ambitions?
Describe and analyze the relationships that the character has with others in the story. Does the character lead or follow
others in the story? Does the character have close friends and family?
Explain the struggle or conflict that the character faces beyond the obvious what are the internal struggles as well as the
external conflicts.
Describe the important actions of the character. What do these actions tell the reader about the character and how the
character faces the conflict?