Textured Text Project by Brooke Little

bl1202319 — 2025-10-14 14:43:47 UTC

This film is based on George Orwell's 1945 book, Animal Farm. John Stephenson directed this live-action and puppetry movie. This film is not exactly like book-- it has very many dissimilarities. This also isn't the most recent remake of this book, but it still give a good main idea of what the book and the theme of the book is about.

This movie still includes all of the animals mentioned, did a good representation of the humans of the book, and had a lot of the same lines word-for-word.

bl1202319 — 2025-10-14 15:12:39 UTC

Summery:

Animal farm is a dystopian book about a society or

community were all animals went equality-- especially the Manor Farm. These animals want a utopian (perfect, no mistakes) society, and freedom. Mr. Jones owned this farm, and he was an alcoholic. The Pigs in the farm are in charge and are the highest form of "branch" of this farm. Old Major was the oldest pig, and was in control of everything and everyone. He told the farm that he was getting old and would die off soon, so he gave specific instructions for the farm when he is gone. Three nights later, the Major died. Since the Major was gone, they were inspired to take over Mr. Jones and the farm. Once they did, they renamed the farm, "Animal Farm". They Then made these seven commandments:

" 1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal. "

(Orwell, 24-25)

They followed these rules. Napolean and Snowball were the two boars on the farm, and they constantly argued. They both wanted to lead the farm, but Napolean wanted to lead it by himself so he used the dogs in the barn to chase him away. Napolean then started to blame outrageous things on Snowball so others will hate him too. This continued for a long time while they work hard at the farm to make windmills, even though they kept getting destroyed. Napolean became like a tyrant and started changing the seven commandments, and killing off the animals who didn't listen. At the end, the animals slowly started becoming almost human-like as they got older when the worked. Then slowly just kept violating those commandments until they become friends with animals again.

bl1202319 — 2025-10-15 15:11:39 UTC

Fahrenheit 451 is another dystopian book where everyone in this society wants everyone to be equal no matter what. The main character, Guy Montag, is a firefighter. However, firefighters in this society are not your normal firefighters-- instead of putting out fires, they're the ones who causes them. This society believes that books are horrible for them. This do not benefit anyone and it makes everything unequal. So, these "firefighters" set books on fire, so everyone will be equal. After being a firefighter for a while, Montag starts to rethink how this society really is, especially after meeting a girl named Clarisse. After his first, and last, interaction with her, everything in his life started changing. He witnessed a women refusing to leave her books when they were already burning, and he was then asking himself why books are so important to her that she rather die with them instead of just leaving them to burn? Montag decides to steal a book, that happens to be a Bible, from the lady's house who he had burned. His captain, Beatty, saw this and told him to burn it himself to learn a lesson. He burns it, then kills Beatty. Along with Beatty gone, his wife, Mildred also had left him a little earlier. Montag got scared and started running, even after he's getting chased by the police, and have been attacked several times. He ends up finding people like him, and talks to them about everything and they agree and run away while the city he lived in started up In flames after being bombed.

bl1202319 — 2025-10-15 16:37:00 UTC

Between these two books, I think they're really similar.

Murder
- In animal farm, these animals were to follow the Seven Commandments that were made for them by their leaders. If they weren't to follow them, they would be killed. Where as to Fahrenheit 451, if they read or possessed books, which were against the law, they would be punished by having their house and books burnt down.
War
- When the animals weren't being treated right or fed, they chased out the farmers which made news and caused a lot of chaos. The also had the battle of the windmill, and the battle of the cowshed. Where both resulted in either humans or animals dying. In Fahrenheit 451, there weren't really many details about the war, however, it was made clear that near the end of the book there was bombings happening in the city they lived in.
They both are dystopian
They both are examples of totalitarianism and tyranny

bl1202319 — 2025-10-15 17:31:38 UTC

Theme: Greed, Corruption of Power, the idea of "Revolution" or "War"

Explanation: In this book we see the idea of "Revolution" with seeing these animals in the Manor Farm get angry at the humans and with each other. We especially see this with Napolean-- He acts out of control when others don't listen to him or the rules he has set for the farm. This is where the idea of Corruption of Power and Greed takes place. We also see that after the Old Major dies, both Napolean and Snowball want to step up and be in charge of the farm. Napolean wanted it so bad to himself that he had the dogs that he trained in the barn chase Snowball out of there, and made sure he never came back. Napolean became a tyrant, and started killing off everyone who disobeys his wishes and don't follow the commandments, which is ironic because he does not follow most of them himself.

Textual evidence: "The three hens who had been the ringleaders in the attempted rebellion over the eggs now came forward and stated that Snowball had appeared to them in a dream and incited them to disobey Napolean's orders. They, too, were slaughtered." (Orwell, 84)

bl1202319 — 2025-10-16 00:09:56 UTC

bl1202319 — 2025-10-16 00:31:30 UTC

This is "The Beast of England" song that was sung in the book as their way of expressing how they felt.

bl1202319 — 2025-10-16 00:34:37 UTC

This is a k-pop song that repeats "Burning up, fire" throughout the song. Like in Fahrenheit 415 they have burn up all books they see people reading.

bl1202319 — 2025-10-16 01:02:50 UTC

This is the scene where Montag is forced to burn his own books by Beatty. Although this version is a little different, the idea of this scene in the movie and in the book are the same.

bl1202319 — 2025-10-16 01:08:32 UTC

In this clip, it implies that Snowball was killed by those dogs- however, in the book, snowball was not killed whatsoever. But the idea of the dogs chasing out Snowball is similar.

bl1202319 — 2025-10-16 01:28:40 UTC

This painting could have many different meanings.

This painting is of Jesus, and his sheep.
- His sheep is us and we follow him
- Even if we toggle of the path, Jesus and God will come help us find our way again.

Relating to Animal Farm, it could be seen that the sheep (the farm animals) are following their leader (Nepolean).
Either way, the sheep, and farm animals, always stick together. Even though some go off the path sometimes.