Blog Post #18 Maya Lyatunovskiy P3 03/ 12/2020

Aim-  how can a comparison of speeches reflect the continued relevance of ideas held in society today

Today we cleaned up the work from yesterday and continued and finished analyzing from the Old Major’s speech as well as Martin Luther’s speech. 

Group team work: Today we analyzed the Martin Luther speech as well as analyzed these Spe aches by comparing the art in luther’s speech and the Old Major’s speech from Animal farm. Both motivational speakers held a great role in their societies and hel a very powerful influence over others by their persuasion of their words. 

Our work was plot into three parts. 

We began finishing up the first part; the allegories of the characters in animal park 

What’s in a Name?

Directions: An allegory usually gives characters names that suggest their qualities and the types of people or characters they might be.  The names are sometimes quite obvious: Faith, Temptation, Greed.  Sometimes they are more subtle: Goodman Brown, Beelzy (as in Beelzebub), Simon (as in Simon Peter).

Work collaboratively with your group to analyze the characters’ names, and their descriptions.  Use your findings to identify the qualities that seem to be suggested by the author, and see if you can ascertain what type of character they will be, or represent in the story and or allegorical significance from history.  Use Chapter 1 for assistance, and use Textual Evidence to support your explanations.  You have 15 Minutes to execute the task!

Animal Farm Character Names	Textual Evidence Character Qualities & Type of Character They Might Be, and Allegorical Significance they may hold
Mr. Jones	Mr Jones is portrayed as the enemy for the animals in that he is selfish and a lazy drunk. He barely feeds the animals, forgetting bout them often, and just keeping them around to make money or use them for food or labor.  “ Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.”
Old Major	Old major is an old horse who is very wise and well respected in his community of animals. He is portrayed as Lenin because although he doesn’t show exactly how to get everyone to rebel against the man kind, he motivates and inspires them to establish hatred along the men to succeed in what they want.  “ “ He was twelve years old and had lately grown rather stout, but he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut.”
Clover	Clover is a mane who is gentle and who gave birth to four fouls and is reaching mid age. She is considered verbally kind and although she is skeptical about some ideas, she doesn’t show it because of how everyone else thinks.  “ Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.”
Boxer	Boxer is a mane who is very large and strong and carries on the group “ physically”. Boxer is not very intelligent but still holds respect.  “ Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together. A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in fact he was not of first-rate intelligence, but he was universally respected for his steadiness of character and tremendous powers of work.”
Benjamin	Benjamin is a donkey who seldom talks and usually makes nasty remarks about his life and how his life is worth nothing and that he lives too long. The allegorical significance that he holds represents the lack of care he has for future issues of society and his or anyone else’s life. He would rather be alone but still helps when it is needed  “ Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered. He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark--for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.”
Mollie	Mollie is very gullible and she likes the ribbon she wears, not understanding the real significance of things. Like Benjamin, she does not care what happens but unlike Benjamin, she desires happinesses and finds this in things like sugar or her own pleasures. She isn’t very intelligent but she follows with the group.  “ Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar. She took a place near the front and began flirting her white mane, hoping to draw attention to the red ribbons it was plaited with”
Moses	Moses usually does not talk but when he does, he says things that seem unimaginable like a world far away where all animals are treated with respect, once they die. He represented a biblical figure since he inspires and shows the possibilities of reaching happiness and places that seem unreachable.  “All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the back door.”

Analyzing Political Speeches

PART I: Use this form to help compare the structure of Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech with Old Major’s speech in Chapter One of Animal Farm.  While viewing the film, find “quotes” from Martin Luther King’s speech; that serve as appropriate examples and record them below.  After the viewing, you will work with your groups to complete Old Major’s speech. Remember to: Rephrase all questions as part of your answer!!!

Basic Structure	I Have a Dream	Old Major’s Speech
Describe the present situation According to the speaker, who’s benefiting under the current conditions?	Under Martin Luther King, the people of color are being benefited because thier motivation for equal rights, opportunities, and the civil disobedience against racial segregation is being supported by a huge crowd. HOwever, at this moment, when the situation is present, the whites have more power in government, employment, and economics, while the people of color struggle.	Old Major’s speech benefits the animals but has more aggression against the humans. They believe that the animals are in harsh labor conditions under humans and want the human race to end to prevent any harm and interference with freedom of the animals.
Prove unfairness According to the speaker, who’s suffering under current conditions?	Under these conditions , the people of color are suffering under the racial segregation.	Under these conditions, the animals suffer from poor labor conditions and the inequalities and starvation of the animals under human control.
Provide a vision of a better way What would conditions be like if the conditions were fairer than they are now?	If the conditions were fairer, All people would be treated equally, and civil disobedience would not be necessary for society. ALL people would have equal opportunity and rights	If conditions were better, the animals would not starve and would have breaks to recast form the labor while also benefiting from the crops and baggage that they carry and would get a percentage of that.
Call for Action What must be done to achieve fairer conditions?	To achieve fairer conditions, all of the people should reach out to help give complete equal rights and opportunities. Protests, strikes, and other motivational speeches should be made to exclaim why it is important for society to be treated with equal respect and protection.	To achieve fairer conditions, the animals believe they need to rebel against humans and establish a powerful animal race which is organized and strong.
Ethos, Pathos & Logos Find “1” example of each from the speech.	” the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination” - pathos   “ There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. “- ethos  “Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:” - logos	But is this simply part of the order of nature? Is it because this land of ours is so poor that it cannot afford a decent life to those who dwell upon it?- logos  “Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices. No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade.” - ethos  “The singing of this song threw the animals into the wildest excitement. Almost before Major had reached the end, they had begun singing it for themselves.”- pathos

Reflection -  As seen in Martin Luther’s speech “ I have a dream” and the Old Major’s speech in an animal farm, have many similarities in its way of persuasion and its way of speaking to motivate and inspire others. In both speeches, ethos, pathos , logos, anaphoria, and other literary devices are used similarly in both statements. This activity was given to us to show us how similar animal farm is to many historical events such as different speeches. Also, we completed and analyzed the activity “ What’s in a name “, to analyze all the characters presents in chapter 1 of animal farm. This activity widened our knowledge and found different analogies for the characters, present during Karl Marx’s time. To answer the name, the relevance of ideas now are still being contributed and spread through a variety of motivational speeches, as times in history. This shows how important it is to understand why speeches are brought upon due to motivations which enable societies to stand up and rebel.