qoutes for the animals Flashcards
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give a boxer quote and develop it
’‘“an enormous beast’’ countered by ‘‘he was not of first-rate intelligence’’—-> introduced by him, his strength is always mentioned and always praised within his hard work, however he is easily miss lead by the revolution and napoleons tyranny, his strength overides his literacy.
orwells use of foreshadowing for boxers fate “the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will send you to the knacker’’ always leaves the reader with sympathy and boxer was the most ambitious but was oblivious to all the terrible things happening on the farm. and as soon as he is injured he is of no use, benjamins reassurence of his retirement also left the reader to hold dramatic irony and well aware of what was going to happen to him
few boxer quotes chekc if right
“If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right,”
'’It must be due to some fault in ourselves. The solution, as I see it, is to work harder”
who does boxer represent in the novel?
he’s a symbol for all of the Russian working class (proletariat). And it’s not a very flattering portrayal.
but the pigs could never have come to power without his strength—and his stupidity.
give some mollie qoutes
“Will there be sugar after the rebellion?”
'’admiring herself in the glass in a very foolish manner”
“She was late for work every morning and excused herself by saying that she had overslept’’
who does mollie prepresent?
Mollie is symbol for Russian middle class (bourgeois).
When the Bolsheviks asked them to give up their luxuries, many of them abandoned the cause and fled to the West.
qoutes for benjamin
’’ “Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey”
it was the first time that they had ever seen Benjamin excited—indeed it was the first time that anyone had ever seen him gallop”
snowball qoutes
“a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive,’’ early introduction
Snowball is much more charismatic, and as he finishes, “there was no doubt as to which way the vote would go”
who does snowball represent?
Trotsky helped win the Revolution. After the Russian Revolution, Trotsky served as the People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs.
