English Animal Farm Quotes Flashcards
When pigs dont follow their own rules
technique
What does it achieve
No animal should sleep in a bed with sheets
Understatement “with sheets”
The pigs are cautiosly underming the animals
Squealer using big words to make the animals confused
Technique
What does it achieve
files, reports, minutes, and memoranda… large sheets of paper
Cumalative listing
Makes the animals confused and come under the assumption that the pigs are doing important things.
Squealer undermines the other animals
Technique
Effect
and as soon as they were so covered, they were burnt in the furnace
Understatment
Allows Napoleon to maintain power and to put the animals at ease
Old majors speech in chapter 1,
Technique
Effect
You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year.”
Foreshadowing and situational irony
The situational irony revolutionises the course of power, seen as Stalin who takes contol over the soviet uniuon
Quote of Napoleon at then end of the book dressed up
Tehcnique
Effect
Napoleon himself appearing in a black coat, ratcatcher breeches, and leather leggings
Tricolon
Places empahsis on the similarities between Napoleon and Jones, Similar to Stalin and Tsar
Napoleon challenges status quo
What goes on two legs is an enemy
Motif
Orwell’s use of motifs throughout the novella challenges the status quo the farm was in and allows him to take control.
Communism being advised to all other counties
teach them the tune of ‘Beasts of England
Allegory
Similar to when Joeseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky initiated comintern, which was designed to get other coutries to become communist. Allows Orwell to share his socialist favoured views.
When Napoleon takes control over the farm
all questions relating to the working of the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs, presided over by himself.
Allegory/Juxtaposition
Allegory for the centralisation of power in the Stalinest regime
Juxtaposition of old major’s teachings of “All animals are equal” as the pigs are making all the decisions
What did the animals represent
“If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.”
Allegory
Boxer is illiterate and trusting, which makes it easy for the pigs to trick him into submitting to their leadership. Orwell believed that something similar had happened to the Russian working class during the Soviet Revolution: the workers were powerful, and did all the work in the Soviet Union, but they were tricked and betrayed by Russian intellectuals.
Key words
Another word for allegory
Parralels
Keyword
Take advantage of
expolit
Keyword
Another word for allegory, specifically for people
Counterpart
Keywords
How to describe both Jones’s and Napoleon’s rule
Cyclical nature of Tyranny
Keywords
When situational Irony of forshadowing happens
Hypocracies
