Thursday, February 19, 2015

Animal Farm Commandments

My Y11 class were working on Animal Farm today, discussing the commandments that were made and then broken by the animals. Animism was a theory created by Old Major (Karl Marx) that was subverted and perverted by the pigs as they became a ruling elite.



We came up with some commandments of our own:

  • No one must be treated differently because they are different, everyone is the same.
  • Survival of the fittest.
  • No living human being shall be on the streets. They should be living in a house.
  • Love your enemies.
  • No animal shall be killed except pigs.
  • We are allowed to eat whenever we want to / wish.
  • No murder.
  • No unconfortable shoes.
  • Do no steal or desire what does not belong to you.
  • Obey your parents and then you'll have an every lasting life.
  • Love each other.
  • Everyone to be treated equally.
  • Free WIFI.
Obviously we have a range of ideologies (and levels of seriousness) in class.

We have also been looking at propaganda as part of our novel study.

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