Animal Farm

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   renelane Teacher
   High School - 11th Grade

   The pigs are at the front, foreshadowing their status as the more "important" and superior of the animals. Clover is watching over the lost ducklings, and the other animals are pushing and struggling to get a place.

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   Posted by renelane on Thursday November 8, 2007 at 3:22 PM
   
   

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   sagetrieb Teacher
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   Significantly, Old Major speaks on "a sort of raised platform" above the other animals, immediately undermining by virtue of his physical position the equality about which he will speak. In addition, it is also important that even though at first there is some order to the gathering, pigs in one place, ducks in another and so on, very quickly that order collapses as  "the dogs suddenly chase the rats," giving lie to the comradeship Old Major speaks about so eloquently.  

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   Posted by sagetrieb on Friday November 9, 2007 at 4:28 AM
   
   

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