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Understanding Allegory
Understanding Allegory
Understanding the allegorical nature of Animal Farm is vital, in order for you to be able to critically analyze the novel. Therefore, this lesson prepares you for unpacking the deeper symbolism of the text.
Understanding the allegorical nature of Animal Farm is vital, in order for you to be able to critically analyze the novel. Therefore, this lesson prepares you for unpacking the deeper symbolism of the text.
Step 1: Watch this short film of Aesop's "The Tortoise and the Hare."
Step 1: Watch this short film of Aesop's "The Tortoise and the Hare."
Step 2: On the doodle sheet of your student workbook, answer the questions:
Step 2: On the doodle sheet of your student workbook, answer the questions:
Who/what does the hare represent? And the tortoise?
Is this just a story for children? Why or why not?
What is the ‘moral’ of the story? (What, indeed, is a moral?)
Why tell a story such as this one? Why not just outline the moral to people
Why use animals and not people?
Step 3: Allegory (Write this down in your notes!)
Step 3: Allegory (Write this down in your notes!)
Allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas, such as charity, greed, or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings: a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
Allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas, such as charity, greed, or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings: a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
Many allegories use animals to represent human characters, vices, types of people, or qualities of human nature.
Many allegories use animals to represent human characters, vices, types of people, or qualities of human nature.
Step 4: Research
Step 4: Research
With your partner, research the allegorical meaning of the animals listed on the document, filling it in as comprehensively as possible.
With your partner, research the allegorical meaning of the animals listed on the document, filling it in as comprehensively as possible.
Level up CHALLENGE: Unpacking Fables
Level up CHALLENGE: Unpacking Fables
Working independently, determine the morals and symbolic meanings of the three fables in your student workbook.
Working independently, determine the morals and symbolic meanings of the three fables in your student workbook.
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