Old Major- Revolution

Question 1

Introduction

Answer 1

Old Major seems to only appear at the start of the novel physically, however, his name and legacy is endured, until his skull is suppressed which acts as a factor that cements the failure of animalism.
This is literally portrayed through Napoleon’s destruction of the commandments and how he dismisses and deceives Old Major’s original, foundational values.

Question 2

PG 1

Answer 2

• Old Major’s objective throughout the first chapter is to galvanise the animals and to vilify man.
• Old Major’s speech implants the possibility of a rebellion.
• Old major universally unites the animals through their anger and sets the animals on a higher mutiny.

Question 3

PG 1 Quotes

Answer 3

“No animals in England are free”

‘slaughtered with hideous cruelty’

Question 4

PG 2

Answer 4

-Old Major, although seems to have sympathy for the laborious and tiresome lives of the animals, Old Major is presented as withdrawn.
-presents a sense of false brotherhood towards the other animals as he himself has never experienced the hardship
the other animals have endured.
-He talks about the harsh lives of the animals must face,
while he sits on a raised platform, gushing about his own “glamorous” lifestyle as a prized boar. There is a clear sense that Old Major is removed from the hardship and acts as a foreshadowing to the inevitable demise of the farm.
-there is an implied superiority as he demands the animals to change, while implicitly vilifies them, through the use of an accusatory tone which criticises their delayed uprising/response/reaction.

Question 5

PG 2 Quotes

Answer 5

‘comrades’

‘I lay alone in my stall’

Question 6

PG 3

Answer 6

Old Major is a physical representation of Napoleon deviation from his original premise to the animals that he would reform the farm with revolutionary intentions.
Old Major is the inspiration for Napoleon and the rest of pigs – they are enticed to take the opportunity and
abuse the system to take charge

Question 7

PG 3 Quotes

Answer 7

1. “This is too would be suppressed” -> this shows how even though the animals were greatly influenced by him, he was a barrier to Napoleon - a tyrannical leader who
   used the commandments of Old major for self-serving purposes.
2. “And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a
   common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others”