ANIMAL FARM REVISION

ANIMAL FARM by Gorge Orwell for GCSE ENGLISH

What was animal farm?

• an allogary about communisim

• it is a politicaly satire story

• he used anthropmorphisim

what were the 7 comandments

1  "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy."

2  "Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend."

3  "No animal shall wear clothes."

4  "No animal shall sleep in a bed."

5  "No animal shall drink alcohol."

6  "No animal shall kill any other animal."

7  "All animals are equal."

what quote shows irony in the 4 commandment

“no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets

what quote show corruption

“napoleon is always right”

Final lines quote

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which”

what does orwell show through the class system

• He critisises and sujjests it iis what our scociety is fundementaly built off and it cant change

what quote describes the pigs

“the pigs did not actualy work”

what quote shows pigs intelegence

“The pigs were generally regarded as being more intelligent than the other animals”

how is Old major presented as a good speaker

• uses Emotive language like “ cut your throat”

• repetition of the word “ comrades”

• uses rhetorical questions like “ what is the nature of this life of ours?”

• He uses imperitives such as “listen”

How does old major represent animalisim

• -          propaganda- his scull was placed at the flag pole making him a token and propaganda device. In the 7 commandments he is carried through via his ideas.

How is molly presented

• “ she was late for work every morning”

• ““ gazing at her own reflection”

how is benjeman presented

[cynical and realistic]

• the “same slow obsinente way”

• “benjiman could read as well as any pig but never exercised his falusty”.

• “the unalterable law of life”

what does moses represent

• religion and heaven “sugarcandy mountin”

• a spy and a tale-bearer, but he was also a clever talker.

• He did no work

• the animals hated moses because he told tales and did no work

• with an allowance of a gill of beer a day

How is squealer presented

• “all animals are equall but some animals are more equall than others”

• “ its for your sake we eat the apples”

• “ you do not imagine I hope that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?”

• "Squealer could turn black into white."

• ““Snowball with his moonshine of windmills”

how is boxer presented as dumb

• “ he could not think of anything to say”

• “boxer could not get beyond the letter D”

how is boxer presented as powerful

• "Boxer was the admiration of everybody.

• “He was as strong as any two ordinary horses put together."

how is boxer presented as hard working

• “napoleon is always right”

• “i will work harder”

how is snowball presented as brave

• “The pellets scored bloody streaks along Snowball's back”

• “He himself dashed straight for Jones”

how is snowball presented as smart

• “Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon”

how is napolion shown as a tyrant

• “The dogs immediately leaped forward, and killed the man who had been the first to speak.”

• “carried a wip with his trotter”

• he steals the chickens eggs, makes snowball to be the villan, kills a load of traitors

• “a pile of courpses laying before napoleons feet

how is clover presented in animal farm

• clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life

• Clover learnt the whole alphabet, but could not put words together

• this was not what they had aimed at.