Animal Farm Quotes Flashcards
Napoleon
Right
“Napoleon is always right”
Repetition
Used as a slogan by Boxer
Napoleon
Decisions
“Sometimes you might make the wrong decisions comrades and then where should we be?”
Rhetorical question
Said by snowball as propaganda
Napoleon
Dogs
“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
Snowball
Good human
“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
Snowball
Writing
“It was snowball who was best at writing”
Shows him to be smart
Snowball
Eloquence
“In a moment, snowball’s eloquence carried them away”
Shows him to be persuasive and intelligent, unlike Napoleon
Old Major
Friends
“Comrades”
Inclusive language
Is persuasive
Old Major
Resemble
“We must not come to resemble them”
Foreshadowing
Shows him being clever but also as naive for thinking that his plan could work
Old Major
Nature?
“But is this simply part of the order of nature?”
Rhetorical question
Persuasive
Squealer
Black
“He could turn black into white”
Metaphor
To show how powerful squealer’s techniques are and how dangerous propaganda is
Squealer
Jones
“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
Squealer
Apples
“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.
Boxer
Harder
“I will work harder”
Repetition
Shows the innocent and hard working mindset of the working class
Boxer
Right
“Napoleon is always right”
Repetition
Shows how easily controlled the ‘stupid’ working class is
Boxer
Thoughts
“ 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.
Mr Jones
Pop Holes
“ 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
Mr Jones
Drowns
“Jones ties a brick round their necks and drowns them in the nearest pond”
Shows the cruelty of Mr Jones
Mollie
Name
“Mollie, meanwhile learned only to spell her name”
Shows her vanity and stupidity
Mollie
Ribbons
“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.
Benjamin
Windmill
“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”
Clover
Aimed
“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.
Moses
Corpses
“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
Napoleon
Impossible
“In the end it was impossible to say which was which”
