Squealer represented the Russian Media for Orwell. Stalin(Napoleon) used him/it to spread lies to incite the people to agree with what was going on...even though things were pretty rotten for the people.
Chinese Media...
The Battle of the cowshed
The battle of cowshed represented when the Russian government tried to regain power...
The war of 1812
Jones
Farmer Jones represented Tsar Nicholas
I don't know. I just thought of him as a mean farmer
The whole farm
Any utopian society, particularly the USSR
USSR
Chapters 1 and 2 questions
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They still do their jobs like animals, but they hold meetings and govern themselves like humans.
2
It made them think that things could be better.
3
This makes the assumption that all animals are good and all humans are bad.
4
The animals started following the pigs because they were told it was the right thing to do.
5
Because the ribbons symbolize that the humans were using her.
6
The animals were stunned that they had accomplished their long term goal so quickly.
7
Four legs goooooood... two legs baaaaaaaad!
8
Animalism represents marxism for Orwell.
9
The farm would have been perfect because it doesn't have very many people and it's small.
Chapters 3 and 4 questions
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There is now a government with laws and values
2
It is supposed to look like the hammer and sickle of the USSR flag
3
When Napoleon opposes the windmill
4
It makes all animals sound good and all men sound bad
5
They told the other animals that they were smarter and that they should run the farm and the animals believed them
6
Squealer makes everything that Napoleon does sound good and everything that snowball did sound bad
7
The farmers were trying to recapture the farm
8
They were both happy, but boxer was worried that he had hurt someone
9
Because the animals don't hold power.
Chapters 5 and 6 questions
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Because she is full of herself
2
Napoleon doesn't think that they should build a windmill
3
It ended up the same
4
No one is free anymore, so they just have to bee obedient
5
I would consider it propoganda because he is basically saying that Napoleon is always right
6
Boxer ends up doing the labor of more that one animal because he is convinced that if he works harder things will get better
7
He said that snowball had actually stolen the idea from Napoleon
8
No animal shall kill any other animal without cause, No animal shall drink alcohol in excess. The animals don't remember the old commandments, so they accept the new ones
9
Tactics just means strategy in the context that Napoleon and Squealer are using
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He gives false figures to the animals to give them confidence that things are better than they used to be
2
They are executed
3
They made snowball look bad so that the animals wouldn't try to make things better.
4
It puts the animals on edge and makes them afraid to rebel
5
She wants to bring the animals together. She knows that things could be better
6
He says that the song is no longer necessary because he doesn't want anyone to rebel against him
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It tries to give confidence that Napoleon is the best person to run the farm
9
The farm was attacked by the same men and the animals still won, but it was a fight for the windmill instead of the farm.
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It is an attempt to give the animals more confidence so that they will work harder.
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