Questions on Animal Farm

1. What do you find Animal Farm synonymous to, in our lives?

2. What conventional subject would you put Animal Farm into?
3. Find a term for “Beasts of England” and “7 commandments” in management literature.
4. Name one public celebrity or some character in any movie synonymous to the following
characters:
 Major-karl marx
 Nepoleon- joseph stalin
 Mozez- Russian orthodox church
 Molie
 Snowball-Trotsky
 Banjemin
 Boxer
 Clover
 Squler
 Mr. Jones
Also put appropriate adjectives for each of the characters.
5. Are the pigs self-serving from the start, or are they corrupted by their power?
6. What started to give the pigs power over other animals?
7. Compare both Snowwball’s and Nepoleon’s plan for Animal Farm and their distinct
leadership styles.

8. What qualities allow the pigs to gain power in the first place, and what qualities enable
them to keep their power? Are these different?
9. How do you define power, anyway? What does it mean to have power on Animal Farm?
Is it possible for leaders to have this kind of power without abusing it?
10. “the sheep are completely useless”. You agree or disagree with the statement.
11. Do sheep’s have some power?

12. What are the specific tools that Squealer uses to deceive the animals, and why do they
work so well?
13. How is the way the animals use deception different from the way the humans do? Maybe
the motivations are different, or the outcomes, or the style of deception, etc. Or maybe
there is no difference.
14. The animals are dumb, but they're not that dumb. Well, the sheep are. But the rest have
an inclination that something is rotten in the state of Animal Farm. So why don't they do
anything about it?
15. What is the possible way to break and change the rules without resistance by others
accordin to the learnings from Animal Farm?
16. There seem to be some characters that are pretty much always fools (Mollie, the sheep)
and some that are generally wise (Benjamin). Should we handle these differently to get
them our way?
17. What does Benjamin know to be inevitable? Is he right? Might this whole cyclic thing of
power-corruption-rebellion have happened before?
18. The animals are really concerned about controlling the image of their farm in the outside
world. Is this the same kind of manipulation that the pigs perform within the farm? Are
the working class animals then also responsible, in some ways, for the attempted
deception of the outside world?
19. What is the single most important thing the working animals could recognize that would
stop them from being oppressed?
20. How is it that Napoleon executes such extremes of violence, and still has the other
animals convinced he's a good guy?
21. Is pride beneficial or harmful to the animals? For the pigs? For the humans?
22. Karl Marx (Major), Vladimir Lenin (Major), Leon Trotsky (Snowball), Joseph Stalin
(Napoleon), Adolf Hitler (Frederick), the Allies (Pilkington), the peasants (Boxer), the
elite (Mollie), and the church (Moses).