Characters Flashcards
“A horses lungs do not last forever”
Benjamin about Boxer
“Snowball was forgotten, Boxer was forgotten except by those who knew him”
Omniscient narrator showing irony by saying ‘except by those who knew him’
“Harsh and bare, hungry and often cold”
Links to Stalin starving 3.9 Ukrainians to death in 1932-33 in the Soviet Union
“Squealer always spoke of it as ‘readjustments and never reduction”
Manipulation
“We will build another windmill”
Squealer manipulation
“They were always cold and hungry as well”
Chapter 7
“I could show you this in writing if you were able to read it”
Patronising and controlling
“Caught the dog in mid-air and pinned him to the ground”
Chapter 7
“Spoke in a rapid and shrill voice”
Not wanting the animals to here what is really going on
“Couldn’t tell which was which”
Links to how Stalin betrayed Orwell in the Spanish civil war
Fascist vs Republican
“Thanks to leadership of comrades Napoleon look how excellent this water tastes”
Squealer doing anything and everything to promote Napoleon and keep the other animals in line
But somehow neither the tune nor the words came up to ‘Beasts of England’
Showing how deep down they know they are no better off than before
‘Surely you don’t want Jones back’
Squealer
