executions

Question 1

“there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet”

Answer 1

• “pile of corpses” = stark and vivid imagery, death and violence, “pile” is a noun, = brutality, choatic, indiscriminate
• “corpses” = syymbolize N’s victims, noun,
• irony as “before N’s feet” as he was a revolutionary character and now is depicted as a tyrant

Question 2

orwell’s intnetions

Answer 2

• ctriticeses totalitarianism, power corrupting
  -> bodies symbolize the betrayal of the original princip,es of equality and freedom animalism stood for = N commited atrocities for power
• Great Purge = prison camps

Question 3

other quotes to learn:

Answer 3

• “they were all slain on the spot”
• “slaughtered”
• “the air was heavy with the stench of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones”

Question 4

what is significant about clover in the executions (after), quote:

Answer 4

“if she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race”

Question 5

“if she could have spoken her thoughts”

Answer 5

• lack of education - allegory, working class, lacks power to challenge leadership
• shows her empathy and emotional sensitivity, she understands the betrayal of the revolution but is constrained by the power dynamics around her
  -> she wants to act but the fear and control Napoleon has established has left her paralyzed - silent suffering