KQ: What is an allegory?

KQ: What is an allegory?

Spot the Difference…

The Seven Commandments

1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy

2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend

3. No animal shall wear clothes

4. No animal shall sleep in a bed

5. No animal shall drink alcohol

6. No animal shall kill any other animal

7. All animals are equal

KQ: Can you rewrite the past?

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who

controls the present controls the past.”

George Orwell, 1984

Massacre of the Innocents, Pieter Bruegel the ElderThis painting

represents the killing of innocent children

when King Herod learned the son of

God had been born and would take

power from him.

Yet there are no dead

bodies…

only sacks of grain, food

parcels and

animals…

How strange…

Philip II had the

images of massacred

children painted

out

…

It reminded him and others of how he

had brutally

supressed the Dutch

people.

Can you see the

child’s feet

behind the

goat?

KQ: What happens when you achieve too much power?

Find at least one fact about the following:

1) The Gulags

2) The Great Purge / Stalinist terror

3) Soviet propaganda

KQ: What is Propaganda?

KQ: How has the Dream changed?

Dream:

Reality:

KQ: What key image or symbol would we

use to represent

this novel?