Animal Farm Quotes

Question 1

All animals are equal (but some are more equal than others)

Answer 1

• Based on the ides of animalism, representing communism.
• Ends up going wrong, pigs end up in power, like humans.
• It shows the natural hierarchy.

Question 2

It was impossible to tell which was which.

Answer 2

• Pigs and humans are so much alike.
• The other animals don`t have too much power as the pigs and humans have all of the power.
• Turned back into what it was before.

Question 3

What would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back!

Answer 3

• Keeping the pigs in power. Over exaggerating their power.
• Rhetorical question that wonders what would happen without the pigs. All animals naturally assume that the pigs are in power and the responsibility is all on them.

Question 4

It was a pig walking on his hind legs.

Answer 4

• The pigs have started to become obviously more like the humans to the other animals.
• They are becoming more like a tyrannical dictatorship in the was that they are keeping power. Like Jones.
• Starts the phrase “Four legs good, two legs better” said by the sheep.

Question 5

Napoleon had a reputation for getting his own way.

Answer 5

• Napoleon is persuasive by using both emotional (e.g. rhetorical questions) and physical (e.g. the dogs) techniques.
• It is difficult to argue with him, is very stubborn.

Question 6

He carried a whip in his trotter.

Answer 6

• Happened in chapter nine, pigs are becoming more like people.
• It is describing Napoleon.
• It shows the cyclical structure of the story, the power ends up in a tyrannical dictatorship.

Question 7

They worked like slaves.

Answer 7

• The animals are doing all of the pig`s work with not much rewards.
• Uses a simile to represent the proletarians that are shown by the majority of the animals with the pigs representing the upper classes and those in power.

Question 8

Will there be sugar after the rebellion?

Answer 8

• Molly asks, who represents the middle class. She disappears towards the start of the novel as the middle classes moved out of Russia. This is because there were not the same rewards as before and it did not hold as much as it did for the working classes.
• The ‘petite boulangerie’ were more interested in vanity and left so they don`t gt into trouble.

Question 9

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Answer 9

• It was easier to summarise the commandments into one phrase for the uneducated animals.
• Mostly the sheep say it as they are the most uneducated, Snowball made it easier.
• It was a form of propaganda to access all of the animals, from higher and lower classes. It is used to promote that all humans were bad and that animals were better.
• Snowball tried to educate the animals, but did not carry it on. Napoleon used this to his advantage as he was able to “educate” the dogs into his personalised body guards (that represent the ss / sa).

Question 10

I will work harder.

Answer 10

• Said by boxer who mostly represents the proletariats, who are not smart of educated, therefore it is repeated by Boxer throughout the novel.
• Boxer uses his strength for the benefit of all; regularly does what the pigs say as he does not have the intelligence to outsmart them or to oppose them.

Question 11

The windmill was in ruins.

Answer 11

• The windmill was blown down in the storm, but Napoleon used this to his advantage as he blamed Snowball.
• Napoleon uses various lies and circumstances to blame Snowball as it gains him power and influence over the other animals and pigs.

Question 12

Nine enormous dogs… came bounding into the barn.

Answer 12

• “enormous” Create a physical threat over the animals rather a threat through intelligence. It is something that the animals will understand easier and comply with more immediately.
• Creates more tyranny than the original animalism was set out for.
• Used as Napoleon`s persona body guard, representing the SA / SS in Russia.

Question 13

Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly.

Answer 13

• “Swiftly and ruthlessly” connotes that it was without much thought or effort or emotion.
• Shows the human tyranny becoming of the pigs that is going against animalism.

Question 14

Boxer was never seen again.

Answer 14

• Retirement was promised for all animals as a reward for their work. Didn’t go to retirement as hoped, went to the knackers instead and didn’t know until he was leaving.
• Promised that the pigs came up with towards the beginning was not kept.

Question 15

Squealer could turn black into white.

Answer 15

• Is an oxymoron / juxtaposition. Animals were gullible as they were uneducated and believed everything they were told by the pigs.
• Squealer was able to use propaganda effectively.

Question 16

“Fools! Fools!” Shouted Benjamin… “Fools!”

Answer 16

• Repetition, there was no one listening until they saw.
• One of the first things that made them realise that the pigs were malicious and didn’t do everything they had promised.