General quotes

“Our lives are miserable, laborious and short.”

Adjectival triplet → highlights their terrible living conditions

“We are slaughtered with hideous cruelty”

Emotive language, bit graphic → shows the cruelty they ecperience

Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers”

Antithetical language → reiterate the paradox of animalism, equality is impossible

“All animals are equal”

Short sentence, forceful

“The pigs were generally recognised as being the cleverest”

Superlatives + ominous language → foreshadows the pig’s leadership

SQ”a brilliant talker… he could turn black into white”

Antithetical language → shows how persuasive and manipulative he is (propagandist)

“They flung themselves upon their tormentors”

Prescriptive language → shows their bravery, excitement + desperation during the rebellion

“They had taught themselves to read and write”

Ambiguous → the pigs acting in secrecy - behaving like humans shows initiative

“The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others”

seeing hierarchy on the farm”

“The work of the farm went like clockwork

Simile + Positive language → shows how happy they are

“Four legs good, two legs bad”

Monosyllabic + antithetical language

“life would go on as it had always gone on - that is, badly”

Pessimistic - knows nothing will change, wise and experienced

“There would be no more debates”

Forceful language → highlights the destruction of their equality

“All that year the animals worked like slaves”

Simile → highlights how harsh and laborious their life is.

“They were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs”

Intimidation

“Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly”

Convey his brutal and merciless dictatorship

“Beast of england has been abolished”

Symbolises their dream and unity. The abolition of this song represents the oppression

“They worked longer hours and fed no better than they had done in jone’s day”

tone of defeat → highlights the awful conditions

“Our leader, Comrade Napoleon”

this language the pigs’ corruption and failure of animalism. paradox

“Squealer always spoke of it as a ‘readjustment’, never as a ‘reduction’”.

Euphemistic language → highlights how the pigs use language to manipulate the animals

“Not knowing whether to be more frightened of the pigs or the human visitors

“The pigs replaced the humans. therefore the pigs are just as terrifying to the animals

“Comrade… was to be suppressed”

Comrade means unity, brotherhood. suppression highlights the failure of animalism

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man… it was impossible to say which was which”

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