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        <title><![CDATA[Snowball's major idea for improving the conditions on Animal Farm is to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Snowball's major idea for improving the conditions on Animal Farm is to build a windmill.  He proposes this idea in Chapter V.
Snowball argues that building a windmill will improve the lives of all the animals.  He says that with the windmill they will no longer have to work any more than 3 days per week.  He says that the windmill will generate electricity that will allow the animals to have warm stalls.
Napoleon is totally opposed to the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What idea did Snowball have to improve conditions on the farm?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What idea did Snowball have to improve conditions on the farm?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:14:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Boxer represents the poor gullible working class people of Communist...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Boxer represents the poor gullible working class people of Communist Russia who worked tirelessly and unquestioningly to oust the Tsar but were eventually betrayed by Stalin and his henchmen who took advantage of their illiteracy-Boxer can remember only the first four letters of the alphabet-and their simple trustworthy nature.
Boxer's gullibility and loyalty to Napoleon are his undoing. He believes everything that Napoleon says - "Napoleon is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:35:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Unlike the above answer, I thought the question referred to the animals'...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Unlike the above answer, I thought the question referred to the animals' celebration of their "victory" in the Battle of the Windmill.  I'm answering on that basis.
The animals fire a gun and conduct a funeral procession, complete with more firing of the gun, speeches and songs.
It is, of course, ironic that the animals celebrate with human rituals.  But what's really ironic in this episode is the fact that the animals are celebrating at...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:44:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Ch.2 Mr. and Mrs. Jones along with the others are chased out of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Ch.2 Mr. and Mrs. Jones along with the others are chased out of the farm by the animals. The rebellion by the animals had been successful: "Jones was expelled, and the Manor Farm was theirs." The animals celebrated their victory in the following manner:
1. The animals ran a victory lap all round the farm, just like an athlete after he has won a race or the members of a football team after they have won a match:

"Their first act was to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:44:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Name two human rituals that the animals use to celebrate their victory...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Name two human rituals that the animals use to celebrate their victory over Mr. and Mrs. Jones.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:32:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Boxer's fate is that he dies of wounds that he sustains at the Battle of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Boxer's fate is that he dies of wounds that he sustains at the Battle of the Windmill.  He might have survived, but Napoleon doesn't really care enough to get him medical help.
Boxer's character traits affect his fate because his main character trait is his unquestioning belief in Napoleon.  Boxer is supposed to represent the working classes who blindly followed communism.
Boxer keeps working really hard even after he's wounded and even...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:54:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is Boxer's fate?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is Boxer's fate?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:37:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The first type of opposition to Napoleon is philosophical.The second...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The first type of opposition to Napoleon is philosophical.The second type of opposition comes from animals who might have supported Snowball]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:46:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Below are a couple of allegorical actions by Napoleon.
1. Napoleon turns...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Below are a couple of allegorical actions by Napoleon.
1. Napoleon turns the animals against Snowball, runs him off the farm, and then blames him for negative events that occur on the farm.  This series of events represents Stalin's (Napoleon) running Trotsky out of Russia and then blaming him and "insurgents" for subversive of questionable activities that occurred in Russia after Trotsky's exile.
2. When animals, such as the hens, oppose new...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:37:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The farm animals willingly follow the pigs because when the revolution...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The farm animals willingly follow the pigs because when the revolution first takes place, the pigs seize the opportunity to take on leadership roles.  The animals partly accept this because of Old Major's memory but also because at this point in the satire, anything is better than life was under Mr. Jones. In this, Orwell is satirizing the Russian working class's trust in Lenin and later in Stalin (at first).  They felt that their lives...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:22:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are examples of allegory specific to the character Napoleon in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are examples of allegory specific to the character Napoleon in Animal Farm?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:28:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think that the reasons why the animals are willing subjects go hand in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think that the reasons why the animals are willing subjects go hand in hand with the mechanisms of power the pigs use.
There are two major mechanisms of control, in my opinion.
Coercion and fear.  We see this later on in the revolution, especially as Snowball is being forced out of power.
The manipulation of language and truth by the pigs.  The pigs are able to control the other animals in part because they control the "truth." 
Coercion,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:22:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why are the other animals willing subjects of the pigs' tyranny in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why are the other animals willing subjects of the pigs' tyranny in Animal Farm?
What are the mechanisms of control through which power is exercised?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:44:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The short answer to this question is that these things served to make...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The short answer to this question is that these things served to make Napoleon look more impressive and, thereby, to help him keep control over the rest of the animals.
You will have heard the phrase "familiarity breeds contempt."  This is sort of the opposite.  What Napoleon is trying to do is to keep himself aloof from all the rest of the animals so they will look at him as being above them.  The same goes for all the ceremony -- it just...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:40:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why are animals willing subjects of the pigs' tyranny, &amp; what are...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why are animals willing subjects of the pigs' tyranny, &amp; what are the mechanisms of control through which power is exercised in Animal Farm?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:26:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Chapter 8, what is the purpose of Napoleon's self-imposed...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Chapter 8, what is the purpose of Napoleon's self-imposed sequestering and ceremonial apperances?
 ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:23:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Animal Farm, Napoleon most fears an educated populace. He works hard...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Animal Farm, Napoleon most fears an educated populace. He works hard to keep the other animals "in the dark" about what's really transpiring on the farm and his true intentions. Additionally, he keeps the other animals in fear and beholden to his leadership. He convinces them, through his "minister of propaganda" (Squealer), that they need him in order for their survival. To accomplish these ends, he first enslaves thier minds which insures...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:18:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Compare and contrast between the movie and book of animal farm.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Compare and contrast between the movie and book of animal farm.]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/animal-farm/q-and-a/compare-contrast-between-movie-book-animal-farm-117421</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:48:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Napoleon is upset with Mr. Frederick because Mr. Frederick cheated...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Napoleon is upset with Mr. Frederick because Mr. Frederick cheated Napoleon out of some money.
When the animals took over the farm from Farmer Jones, there was a pile of timber on the farm.  They started to try to sell it, and Napoleon tried to have Frederick and Pilkington sort of bid against each other so that the price of the timber would be higher.
Napoleon eventually sold the timber to Frederick.  He later found out that all the money...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:16:04 PST</pubDate>
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