OLD MAJOR

• satirises Vladimir Lenin
• ‘so highly regardeded on the farm that everyone was ready to lose an hours sleep to hear what he had to say’


  ADVERBIAL PHRASE (highly regarded)

  • highly respected
  • good leader
  • well spoken
• ‘on some sort of raised platform under a lantern’


  NOUN PHRASE (raised platform)

  • literally elevated
  • metaphorically superior

  NOUN (lantern)

  • like a deity (god)
• ’majestic looking, wise and benevolent’


  ADJECTIVES

  • royalty
  • intelligent
  • all loving (benevolent)
• ‘our lives are miserable, laborious and short’


  TRIPLE + EMOTIVE LANG (miserable, laborious, short)

  • emphasises how futile/ pointless the animals lives are

  PRONOUN (our)

  • collective suffering
• ‘forced to work to the last atom of our strength‘


  HYPERBOLE (last atom of our strength)

  • animals are forced to put all their effort into working for humans