animal farm

• 'The animals had won a victory over the human tyrants'
• "to napopleons feet" shows howw the animals are turning into humans and the very thing they wanted to get rid of in the first place
• in his political satire, animal farm, orwell seeks to highlight the inevitability of heirarchy, the futility of revolution and the subtle ways power is gained and maintained. through the characters of _ and _, as well as the cyclical nature of the novella, orwell seeks to _. at the start of the novella, the farm is ruled by the neglectful, cruel and incompetent mr jones, however, by the end the farm is ruled by the even harsher, tyrannical napoleon thus commenting that _.
• " man is the only creature that consumes without producing" shows how there is a heirarchy from the start with man above the animals, old major is manipulating the animals and it is hyperbolic
• " all men are enemies. all animals are comrades" the repition reflects orwells veiw on heirarchy and how it is inevitable, dramatic irony as old major gets treated better than the rest of the animals
• the significance of old majors dream is that dreams never come true so foreshadows what will happen to the farm later on
• "sugar candy mountain" moses tells them about this 'heaven'
• "he could turn black into white" shows squealers manipulation and propaganda
• " more easily than anyone expected" show it was easy to gain control
• the farm is described as a utopia straight after the rebellion "ectasy" "great leaps of excitment"
• " a tremendous growling from the dogs" the dogs are there to create fear within the animals to make sure noone goes against napoleon
• " in contact with human beings" napoleon is going against the commandments and it is in contrast to chapter 1 when " all humans are enimies"
• snowball was used as a scapegoat so that all the animals had a common enemy as humans are no longer a problem for them
• with the repition of "napoleon is always right" the propaganda from squealer makes the animals slowly believe this as it is one of the only things that the animals hear
• the pigs have created their own version of history where snowball has been erased completely
• the pigs have become corrupted by power, they now live like humans do which shows how corrupting power can be
• the pigs have taken over the roles of humans on the farm, they wear clothes, sleep in beds and drink wine
• the pigs have changed the seven commandments to suit themselves, they have added more rules and made some of them contradictory
• the pigs have changed the seven commandments to suit themselves, they have added "whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy"
• the pigs have also broken the rule about not drinking alcohol as they get drunk off the wine
• the pigs have renamed the windmill project " napoleons windmill", this shows how much control he has over the other animals
• the pigs have started to use violence to control the other animals, they beat boxer to death
• " and since boxers death, more morose and tactile than ever"

  • benjamin has been effected by boxers death
  • he has lost hope
  • he is the only one aware of the mainipulation going on but now wont say anything
• " winter was cold as the last one had been"

  • winter metaphorical for repition and cyclicality of rebellion
  • in contrast to the start it is now a dystopia
• " the pigs did not actually work but directed and supervised the others"

  • contradicts " all animals are equal"
  • heirarchy
  • links to " man is the only creature that consumes without producing" but instead of man it is now the pigs
• " it is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples"

  • squealer
  • motif of "milk" and " apples" representing knowledge and abundance
  • the pigs are now in control
  • manipulates them into thinking the pigs need them to work for the benefit of the other animals