Animal Farm

Question 1

What are your selected 9 quotes for squealer?

Answer 1

1. Jones would come back!
2. Absolutely necessary for the well-being of a pig.
3. Snowball… was no better than a criminal.
4. The windmill was, in fact, Napoleons own creation.
5. He cast a very ugly look at boxer
6. He had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was some very persuasive.
7. Squealer… was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint brush, and an overturned pot of paint.
8. No animal shall drink alcohol to excess

(Propaganda)

Question 2

What are your selected 9 quotes for boxer?

Answer 2

1. As strong as two ordinary horses put together
2. Fetched the small straw hat… to keep the flies out of his ears, and flung it into the fire.
3. I will work Harder!
4. Napoleon is always right.
5. Rearing up on his hind legs, and striking out with his great iron-shod hooves like a stallion.
6. I have no with to take life, not even human life.
7. Boxer was the admiration of everybody.
8. We have won back what we had before.
9. Squealer made excellent speeches… but the animals found more inspiration in boxers strength.

(Working class)

Question 3

What are your selected 10 quotes for Napoleon?

Answer 3

1. Never mind the milk comrades
2. Sunday morning speeches would come to an end.
3. From now onwards animal farm will engage in trade with the neighbouring farms
4. A pile of corpses lying before Napoleons feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood.
5. The gun was to be fired on Napoleons birthday.
6. Ate from the crown derby dinner service
7. Wearing an old hat of Mr Jones.
8. Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gambolling round him.
9. He carried a whip in his trotter
10. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but it was already impossible to say which was which.

(Stalin)
(Cyclical structure, full circle)

Question 4

Look over the practice questions on unseen prose

Answer 4

Ok.

Question 5

List some notes for Snowball.

Answer 5

Nomenclature: Snowball- clean and pure (most of the time) but doesn’t last for long. Snowball has good intentions

Allegorical to Leon Trotsky,

Question 6

List some notes on squealer

Answer 6

Nomenclature- unpleasant sound. Someone who informs someone in authority about other people

Represents propaganda in the animal farm allegory

Physiognomy- “small fat pig” not threatening

Question 7

List some notes on Boxer

Answer 7

Nomenclature- loyal and hard working, like a boxer (dog breed). Trained to be obedient.

Represents the Russian working class. Easily manipulated.

Physiognomy- a white stripe on his face gave him a “somewhat stupid appearance”

Question 8

List some notes on Napoleon

Answer 8

Nomenclature- Napoleon syndrome, the need to seek power to compensate for a perceived handicap or disadvantage

Represents Stalin in the animal farm allegory

Physiognomy- large, fierce looking berkshire boar. The only one on the farm (importance)