Animal Farm Quotes

Question 1

Napoleon

Right

Answer 1

“Napoleon is always right”
Repetition
Used as a slogan by Boxer

Question 2

Napoleon

Decisions

Answer 2

“Sometimes you might make the wrong decisions comrades and then where should we be?”
Rhetorical question
Said by snowball as propaganda

Question 3

Napoleon

Dogs

Answer 3

“They wagged their tails to him in the same was as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr Jones”
Foreshadowing
Compares Napoleon to Mr Jones

Question 4

Snowball

Good human

Answer 4

“The only good human being is a dead one”
Said by snowball after a battle, trying to reassure Boxer
Shows that he has very strong views similar to Old Major’s

Question 5

Snowball

Writing

Answer 5

“It was snowball who was best at writing”

Shows him to be smart

Question 6

Snowball

Eloquence

Answer 6

“In a moment, snowball’s eloquence carried them away”

Shows him to be persuasive and intelligent, unlike Napoleon

Question 7

Old Major

Friends

Answer 7

“Comrades”
Inclusive language
Is persuasive

Question 8

Old Major

Resemble

Answer 8

“We must not come to resemble them”
Foreshadowing
Shows him being clever but also as naive for thinking that his plan could work

Question 9

Old Major

Nature?

Answer 9

“But is this simply part of the order of nature?”
Rhetorical question
Persuasive

Question 10

Squealer

Black

Answer 10

“He could turn black into white”
Metaphor
To show how powerful squealer’s techniques are and how dangerous propaganda is

Question 11

Squealer

Jones

Answer 11

“Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?”
Rhetorical question
Alienates animals who are doubting creates fear to go against what is being said

Question 12

Squealer

Apples

Answer 12

“you do not imagine,I hope that we pigs are doing this out of selfishness or privilege, many of us actually dislike milk and apples”

Addresses the other animals thoughts by ridiculing them. The reader sees it to be obviously a lie but shows how easily squealer can manipulate the other animals.

Question 13

Boxer

Harder

Answer 13

“I will work harder”
Repetition
Shows the innocent and hard working mindset of the working class

Question 14

Boxer

Right

Answer 14

“Napoleon is always right”
Repetition
Shows how easily controlled the ‘stupid’ working class is

Question 15

Boxer

Thoughts

Answer 15

“ He tried to Marshall his thoughts; but in the end he could not think of anything  to say.”
Shows the reader that though he feels something is wrong, Boxer/the working class can’t even understand what is wrong let alone voice it.

Question 16

Mr Jones

Pop Holes

Answer 16

“ Mr Jones of the Manor Farm had locked the hen house, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop holes.”

Shows the carelessness of Mr Jones

Question 17

Mr Jones

Drowns

Answer 17

“Jones ties a brick round their necks and drowns them in the nearest pond”

Shows the cruelty of Mr Jones

Question 18

Mollie

Name

Answer 18

“Mollie, meanwhile learned only to spell her name”

Shows her vanity and stupidity

Question 19

Mollie

Ribbons

Answer 19

“Those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?”
Rhetorical question
Shows Snowball’s exasperation and mollies stupidity.

Question 20

Benjamin

Windmill

Answer 20

“Windmill or no Windmill, life will go on as it has always gone on, that is badly”

Shows Benjamin’s negativity (or realism) and his indifference to the political decisions taking place”

Question 21

Clover

Aimed

Answer 21

“If she could have spoken her thoughts, it have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at”
Shows that though clover/ the working class feels something is wrong she does not have the ability to protest.

Question 22

Moses

Corpses

Answer 22

“Don’t let the animal corpses ruin your appetite for Sugar Candy Mountain”

Represents religion to be indifferent to politics and only takes advantage of it to gain followers

Question 23

Napoleon

Impossible

Answer 23

“In the end it was impossible to say which was which”