Animal Farm Quotes Flashcards

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1
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Boxers mottos

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«I will work harder» « napoleons always right»

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Boxers future being foreshadowed

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Start of the novel : « the very day those muscles of yours loose power, jones will send you to the knackers»
end of the novel : « there taking boxer to the knackers»
« it had been noticed the van that took boxer away had been marked ‘horse slaughterer’»

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3
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Boxer being illiterate

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« boxer couldn’t get beyond the letter d»

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Boxer working hard

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«Boxer refused to take even a day off work» « sometimes the long hours on insufficient food was hard to bear, but boxer never faltered»

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5
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Military Language the pigs used to befriend the other animals

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«Comrades»

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6
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The pigs changing the commandments to benefit them

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«no animal shall sleep In a bed with sheets»
«No animal shall drink alcohol to excess»
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others»

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Snowballs intelligence threatening napoleon

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« for it was snowball who was the best at writing»
«snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches»
« snowballs eloquence carried them away»
«snowball conjured up pictures of fantastic machines»

«Urinated over the plans» - napoleon

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8
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Napoleon using snowball as a scapegoat

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« snowball who as we know was no better than a criminal» - squealer
«It was pure imagination, probably traceable to lies circulated by snowball»
«Whenever anything went wrong it was usual to attribute it to snowball»
«Snowball was jones agent from the very beginning»
«snowballs secret agents»

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9
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Napoleon wanting to get rid of snowball

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« he had seemed to oppose the windmill simply as a manoeuvre to get rid of snowball»
«I pronounce the death sentence on snowball»
« now that snowball was out of the way, the plan could go forward without his interference»

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10
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Squealers skills at indoctrinating people

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« could turn black into white»

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Squealer being a good orator

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« squealer spoke so persuasively»
« squealer easily convinced them»

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12
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Squealer fear mongering the other animals

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« surely you do not want jones back»

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13
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Squealer manipulating the other animals using his intelligence

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«We pigs are brain workers»
«this has been proven by science»
« they had nothing to go upon except squealers lists and figures»

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14
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Squealer being napoleons mouth piece

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« napoleons always right»
« snowball who as we know was no better than a criminal»

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15
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Using the animals little memory and illiteracy to change their thoughts and memory’s

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«In those days they had been slaves and now there free.. squealer did not fail to point out»
«Are you sure this is not something you have dreamed comrades»

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16
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Napoleon stealing snowballs ideas and claiming them as his own

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«napoleon produced no schemes of his own»
«the windmill was in fact napoleons own creation»
«Napoleon mill»
«Long live the windmill»

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‘Comrade’ napoleon taking the role as leader

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«if comrade napoleon says it, it must be right»
«He had taken to speaking of napoleon under the title ‘leader’»
«our heroic leader comrade napoleon»
«He was always referred to as ‘our leader, comrade napoleon’»

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Napoleon getting ‘thanked’ for ‘his achievements’

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«our heroic leader,comrade napoleon»
« it had become usual to give napoleon credit for every successful achievement»
«he had recently awarded himself “Animal Hero, First Class,” and “Animal Hero, Second Class”»

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The dogs fear mongering the animals

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«They were huge dogs»
«As fierce looking as wolves»
«The 3 dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly»
«The dogs silenced the opposition»