Chapters 1-4

Question 1

CHAPTER 1
🔍 Language Features & Techniques
Allusion
Symbolism
Rhetoric (persuasive tequniques)
🎯 Purpose & Allegory

Answer 1

🔍 Language Features & Techniques

Allusion: Old Major = Karl Marx/Lenin (inspiration for rebellion).

Symbolism:
Mr Jones represents capitalist oppressors (Tsar Nicholas II).
Animals represent the working class.

Rhetoric: Old Major’s speech uses persuasive techniques: repetition (“All men are enemies”), emotive language, rhetorical questions, inclusive pronouns (“Comrades”).

🎯 Purpose & Allegory

Satirical critique of the way revolutionary ideals are born from injustice.

Allegorical setup for the Russian Revolution.

Question 2

CHAPTER 2

🔍 Language Features & Techniques
Irony
Foreshadowing
Symbolism
Seven Commandments
🎯 Purpose & Allegory

Answer 2

🔍 Language Features & Techniques

Irony: The pigs quickly begin to take control (e.g., milk and apples).

Foreshadowing: “The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised.”

Symbolism:
Milk and apples: privilege and exploitation.

Seven Commandments: simplified ideology (like Soviet propaganda).

🎯 Purpose & Allegory

Satirises how revolutionary leaders can become corrupt.

Allegorical representation of early Soviet leadership (especially the rise of the Bolsheviks).

Question 3

CHAPTER 3

🔍 Language Features & Techniques
Parody
Propaganda
Simplification
🎯 Purpose & Allegory

Answer 3

🔍 Language Features & Techniques

Parody: “Animal Committees” (absurd versions of human bureaucracy).

Propaganda: Squealer’s persuasive justification for pigs’ actions.

Simplification: “Four legs good, two legs bad” – shows how complex ideas get reduced to slogans.

🎯 Purpose & Allegory

Satirises how language is manipulated to control others.

Allegorical reference to Soviet slogans and manipulation of the uneducated population.

Question 4

CHAPTER 4

🔍 Language Features & Techniques
Heroification
Imagery
Symbolism
Hypocrisy
🎯 Purpose & Allegory

Answer 4

🔍 Language Features & Techniques

Heroification: Snowball’s role in the Battle of the Cowshed (like Trotsky).

Imagery: Battle scene mirrors real war – glorifies animal struggle.

Symbolism:
Battle of the Cowshed: October Revolution.

Medals: hypocrisy – rejecting human systems while copying them.

🎯 Purpose & Allegory

Satirises how history is rewritten to serve political agendas.

Allegory of the rise of political figures and early Soviet military victory.

Question 5

📘 Thematic Concerns (For Part B – Extended Response)
Corruption of Ideals
Power and Control
Class and Inequality
Manipulation and Propaganda

Answer 5

Corruption of Ideals: How noble intentions can be twisted (especially by the pigs).

Power and Control: Through language, education, and fear.

Class and Inequality: Despite promises, not all animals are treated equally.

Manipulation and Propaganda: Squealer as a voice of misinformation.