Animal Farm Live Theatre

Major’s monologue quotes (3)

• 'Comrades, you have already heard about the strange dream that I had last night.’ - Lister (Major)

• ‘No animal is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery.’ - Lister (Major)

• ‘In fighting against man, we must not come to resemble him.’ - Lister (Major)

• ‘That is my message to you comrades. Revolution!’ - Lister (Major)

The Revoloution Quotes (2)

• ‘Comrades. Jones has gone.’ - Reagan (Napoleon)

• ‘Manor Farm is now to be called Animal Farm!’ - Reagan (Napoleon)

The Pigs In Bed Quotes (3)

• ‘But he was sleeping in a bed.’ -Ahmed (Benjamin)

• ‘Well so what?’ - Black (Boxer)

• ‘The Fourth Commandment!’ - Ahmed (Benjamin)

• ‘No animal shall sleep in a bed… with sheets.’ - Ahmed (Benjamin)

• ‘You did not suppose surely, that there was ever a ruling against beds?’ - Macardle (Squealer)

• ‘Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back? Well?’ - Macardle (Squealer)

• ‘We’ll be getting up one hour later in the mornings than the rest of you, OK?’ - Macardle (Squealer)

The Retelling of Cowshed

• ‘But he was wounded. We all saw him running with blood.’ - Black (Boxer)

• ‘That was all part of the arrangement. I could show you this in his own writing if you were able to read it, but you can’t.’ - Macardle (Squealer)

• ‘Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with a cry of ‘Death To Humanity’ and sank his teeth in Jones’ leg - surely you remember that, comrades?’ - Macardle (Squealer)

• ‘I do not believe that Snowball was a traitor at the beginning.’ - Black (Benjamin)

• ‘Our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, has stated categorically - categorically, comrade - that Snowball was Jones’ agent from the very beginning - yes.’ - Macardle (Squealer)

• ‘If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.’ - Black (Boxer)

The Executions Quotes (4)

• ‘Have you anything to confess?’ - Reagan (Napoleon)

• ‘Snowball appeared to me in a dream and incited me to disobey your orders.’ - Drake (Chicken)

• ‘I do not understand it. I would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm. It must be due to some fault in ourselves.’ - Black (Boxer)

• ‘(Clover hums beasts of england)’

• ‘Beasts of England has been abolished. It is now forbidden to sing it.’ - Macardle (Squealer)

• ‘Why?’ - Lister (Clover)

• ‘we expressed our longing for a better society in days to come. But that society has now been established.’ - Macardle (Squealer)

The Pigs consume Alcohol

• ‘We sleep, we work, we sleep, we work. There’s no end to it.’ - Lister (Clover)

• ‘The singing is interrupted by the sound of drunken revelry from the farmhouse. Napoleon and Squealer enter and hastily exit in an alcoholic stupor. Squealer re-enters to ‘adjust’ the Fifth commandment.’

• ‘What’s the matter Benjamin?’ - Lister (Clover)

• ‘No animal shall drink alcohol… to excess.’ - Ahmed (Benjamin)

• ‘For the time being, comrades, it has been found necessary to make readjustments of rations.’ - Macardle (Squealer)

Boxer’s execution

• ‘If Boxer rests for a couple of days, I know he’ll be strong again.’ - Lister (Clover)

• ‘Our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, has said quite definitely that Boxer is to go to hospital for the good of his health.’ - Macardle (Squealer)

• ‘If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.’ - Black (Boxer)

• ‘To tell you the truth, I’m looking forward to retiring. I’d only a month to go anyway.’ - Black (Boxer)

• ‘Fools, fools, do you not see what is written on the side of the van- ‘Alfred Simmons, Horse slaughterer.’ ‘ - Ahmed (Benjamin)

• ‘Boxer! Boxer! Get out, get out quickly. they are taking you to your death!’ - Lister (Clover)

• ‘Let the spirit of Boxer be a shining example to us all in the difficult times that lie ahead.’ - Reagan (Napoleon)

Clover reminisces and realises

• ‘It seems to me that our lives are just the same as they have always been.’ - Lister (Clover)

• ‘Were things better than they are now?’ - Lister (Clover)

• ‘Jones was expelled from the farm and we began to rule our own lives.’ - Lister (Clover)

• ‘did things get better?’ - Black (Young animal)

• ‘Why yes, of course they did, we were free. We had more…we…’ - Lister (Clover)

• ‘I can remember everything about my life, and I know that things are never much better or much worse.’ - Ahmed (Benjamin.)

The transformation of the pigs

• ‘What are you doing?’ - Lister (Clover)

• ‘We, comrades, work hard all day writing files, reports, minutes and memoranda.’ - Macardle (Squealer)

• ‘But then you burn them.’ - Lister (Clover)

• ‘Benjamin, read it for me just once more.’ - Lister (Clover)

• ‘All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.’ - Ahmed (Benjamin)

• ‘But what does that mean Benjamin?’ - Lister (Clover)

• ‘all the writing makes everything so complicated. Too complicated for me to understand.’ - Lister (Clover)

• ‘We have decided to abolish the custom of addressing each other as comrade. Can’t think how it started in the first place anyway.’ - Reagan (Napoleon)

• ‘Our lower animals work longer hours and receive less food than animals on any other farm.’ - Reagan (Napoleon)

• ‘Lift your glasses. gentle,en, to the prosperity of Manor Farm!’ - Regaan( Napoleon)

• ‘The party swells. Clover watches in horror.’