Animal Farm

• Mr Jones violent nature

  'Let fly a charge of number 6 shot
• 7 Commandments were clearly shown

  'could be read thirty yards away
• Snowball vs. Napoleon

  'Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon and quicker in speech
• Boxer and Clover

  'Their most faithful disciples were Boxer and Clover.
• Unalterable law (7 commandments)

  'An unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after
• Considering the ending, what Old Major said was ironic

  'all the evil ...springs from the tyranny of human beings.
• first early signs of inequality

  'directed and supervised the others
• Boxer works hardest to get the harvest in

  'the entire work of the farm seemed to rest upon his mighty shoulders
• Boxer is upset when he thinks he

  has killed the stable-lad

  'I have no wish to take life, not even human life
• Snowball is unsentimental

  'The only good human being is a dead one.
• rivalry between snowball and napoleon

  'then suddenly he lifted his leg, urinated over the plans
• Squealer talks about Snowball

  'no better than a criminal'.
• Boxer starting his work earlier

  'three-quarters of an hour earlier
• Squealer convinces the animals to accept their lot

  'Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?
• Boxer has a simple attitude to what is happening and shows unquestioning loyalty

  'I will work harder'

  'Napoleon is always right
• The work on the windmill is exhausting

  'it was a slow, laborious process
• life gets worse

  'All that year the animals worked like slaves.
• destroyed windmill

  'as though the windmill had never been'
• violence/dealing with the rebellion

  'the dogs promptly tore their throats out
• Sorrow has replaced hope

  'As Clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears.
• Squealer gives Boxer a look when he contradicts him

  'Ugly look
• was injured but still didn't stop working

  'refused to take even a day off work
• Ironically, the animals still think they have a better life

  'And yet the animals never gave up hope.
• he commandments are replaced by one oxymoron

  'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
• The animals see that pigs and

  humans are just the same

  'it was impossible to say which was which.
• Animals having human characteristics

  anthropomorphic