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Animal Farm
Ignorance is a major theme in Orwell's Animal Farm. The pigs are the only animals who are able to read and write, which puts them in a position of power, which they use throughout the book to...
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Animal Farm
Once he’s established himself as the farm’s undisputed dictator, Napoleon wants to make sure he remains in control. One method he hits on for doing this is gaslighting, that is to say, cynically...
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm is a warning in several ways. The most immediate and sweeping way is that it warns readers about the unrecognized dangers of Soviet style Communism. Orwell was intimately familiar with...
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Animal Farm
First, Major states that life for animals in England is miserable. Essentially, they are in slavery. This sad state of life is not because of the animals themselves, nor is it a result of the...
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Animal Farm
Snowball provides them with a scapegoat. When anything goes wrong on the farm, they can claim it was Snowball's doing or influence. They can pretend that they saw his tracks, or smelled his...
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Animal Farm
Mollie hides during the Battle of the Cowshed. She's an egotistical, white mare whose only concern is having sugar and ribbons for her mane. She eventually goes to work for humans, representing...
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Animal Farm
As I recall, Snowball didn't attack the geese, sheep, and pigeons; he attacked WITH them. Snowball planned a three-fold defense against the neighboring farms and the role of the geese, sheep, and...
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Animal Farm
Lucky for you, this question is already answered! http://www.enotes.com/animal-farm/q-and-a/important-points-writting-an-essay-about-how-262887
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Animal Farm
The pigs at Animal Farm quickly adopted habits which were supposedly forbidden since they exemplified typical human behaviour: They wore clothes. They slept in beds. They drank alcohol. They did...
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Animal Farm
This question was just recently asked and answered. Follow the link below and thanks for using eNotes. http://www.enotes.com/lit/q-and-a/what-event-turns-animals-world-upside-down-chapter-146235
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I think that you can find the answer to this towards the end of Chapter 5. The answer is, I think, a pig named Minimus. We don't see him very much, but he is the best writer. We are told at the...
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Animal Farm
I do not think that Napoleon actually ever does express contempt for Snowball's plan for a windmill. He says that his own ideas are better by coming up with the slogan "Vote for Napoleon and full...
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Animal Farm
The event you are talking about occurs in Chapter IV of the book. By this time, everyone has heard that the animals have taken over Mr. Jones's former farm. The animals on the surrounding farms...
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Animal Farm
George Orwell's Animal Farm is one the author's most read texts (1984 being the other). Animal Farm is Orwell's allegorical and satirical novella which tells the tale of farm animals who overtake...
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Animal Farm
George Orwell's novel Animal Farm and Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, both deal with questions of centralization and abuse of power.
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Animal Farm
Napoleon has a few different dealings with Frederick and Pilkington, who own neighboring farms. Probably the most important one (the one you're probably thinking of) is in Chapter 7. In that...
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Animal Farm
The seven commandments are spelled out in Chapter II, or in the enotes summary and analysis of Chapter II; you'll find a link to that discussion below. In short, though, all commandments eroded...
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Animal Farm
Moses, the raven, represents the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia and/or Rasputin, the influential "mad monk" during days of the early Soviet Union and of the Bolshevik revolution....
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm is an allegory of the Russian Revolution. This means that the events in Animal Farm are meant to directly represent the events of this revolution. When looked at in this way, it becomes...
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Animal Farm
Mr. Whymper is a crafty lawyer who acts as an intermediary between the farm and the outside world. The Animalist revolution was supposed to usher in a bright new shining future for the animals....
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Animal Farm
Towards the end of chapter 6, a violent storm hits the farm and the strong gusts of wind destroy the windmill. In the morning, the animals are devastated when they discover that the windmill has...
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Animal Farm
Napoleon gets the wily lawyer Mr. Whymper to spread propaganda around the local area about how incredibly well the farm is doing under his leadership. It's all a complete lie, of course; life on...
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm is an allegory of the Bolshevik Revolution. We can explain this fact by going through the story detail by detail and by noting the striking similarities between the animal characters...
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Animal Farm
Mrs. Jones sees the animals revolting from her bedroom window. She reacts quickly as soon as she realizes what is going on. She packs a bag with a few of her possessions, presumably of some value...
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Animal Farm
The ending scene of Animal Farm carries with it one of the most brutally cynical and fatally hopeless messages about the nature of man ever put to paper. It signifies that mankind may be doomed to...
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Animal Farm
The overarching theme or meaning of Animal Farm is that a revolution will turn into tyranny very quickly if ordinary people (or in the case of the book, animals) don't pay close attention to what...
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Animal Farm
Shortly after Mr. Jones is expelled from the farm, the pigs become the leading voices of government and are exempt from engaging in manual labor. They label themselves "brainworkers" and begin...
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Animal Farm
One could argue that the moment when the Revolution's failure becomes inevitable takes place in chapter five when Napoleon chases Snowball off the farm and usurps power. In chapter five, Napoleon...
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Animal Farm
In the first chapter of Animal Farm, the animals who have come to hear Old Major speak sit in an order which is minutely described by Orwell. The dogs come in first and sit at the front, along with...
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Animal Farm
Mollie is described as "the foolish, pretty white mare who (draws) Mr. Jones's trap." When the animals are discussing the rebellion predicted by Old Major, Mollie asks if there will still be sugar...
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Animal Farm
The dogs and pigs enter the barn at once and claim front-row seats, as their status demands. It is, after all, a pig they have come to hear. The birds, in sharp contrast, have the humility to...
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Animal Farm
George Orwell's Animal Farm is a satirical novel about government. Orwell uses animals to criticize the Soviet Union and Communism in this story. Power is a huge theme in this novel. The animals in...
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Animal Farm
The biggest practical advantage for the animals is that they can now run their own affairs. Instead of having to toil away each day for a human master they can work for themselves, and gain a sense...
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Animal Farm
George Orwell's novel Animal Farm spotlights the pigs' betrayal of Old Major's ideas of equality and freedom and how the pigs instead decide to emulate the behaviors they previously despised in Mr....
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Animal Farm
During the Battle of the Cowshed, Boxer becomes what Orwell calls "the most terrifying spectacle of all" when he rears up on his hind legs and kicks a stable boy in the head and kills him, causing...
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Animal Farm
Squealer is the smooth talking pig who always has an answer when the other animals are rightly disturbed about something that has happened: The others said of Squealer that he could turn black...
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm is an allegory about the abuses of power. The animals who lived and labored on the farm when it was owned by the human farmer Jones had no say in what how they lived or died, and no...
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Animal Farm
The animals are delighted after they run Farmer Jones off and take over the Manor Farm. They rename it Animal Farm and establish a set of principles that promise equality and a new way of life....
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Animal Farm
Initially, Snowball comes up with the idea of building a windmill, which will operate as a dynamo and supply the farm with electrical power. In addition to developing the concept of the windmill,...
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Animal Farm
In chapter 5, Snowball begins developing plans for an electricity-generating windmill, which will significantly improve the standard of living on the farm and decrease the animals' workload....
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Animal Farm
The cat joins the Wild Comrades' Re-education committee. This committee, organized by Snowball, is dedicated to taming wild animals, such as rats, rabbits, and sparrows, though it is not very...
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Animal Farm
When writing a news article, it is important to begin with the most important piece of information. This serves two purposes; it hooks the reader in, and it conveys what the reader needs to know...
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Animal Farm
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Party in Oceania uses a constant state of war with one of its two global rivals, Eurasia and Eastasia, to control its own population. Orwell employs the same idea on a...
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Animal Farm
The pigs use a variety of methods to brainwash and manipulate the animals to act passively and obey their orders. Orwell illustrates how the pigs use language to make seemingly rational arguments...
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Animal Farm
One of George Orwell’s accomplishments in Animal Farm is the way he encourages the reader to shift their sympathies for different characters throughout the novel. This shift corresponds to the...
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Animal Farm
The character of Napoleon allegorically represents Joseph Stalin in Orwell's celebrated novella Animal Farm. Stalin was the dictator during the early years of the Soviet Union and ruled as a...
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Animal Farm
When Napoleon is introduced in chapter 2, he is described as "not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way." This immediately differentiates him from the only other two pigs...
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Animal Farm
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the animals who work on Manor Farm rebel and take over the farm. Their goal is to achieve better and more equitable treatment than they had received under the...
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Animal Farm
Napoleon is described as a "fierce-looking" boar "with a reputation for getting his own way" and is motivated by a lust for complete authority to usurp power and rule the farm as a merciless...
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Animal Farm
After the animals took over Manor Farm from Mr. Jones, the word began to spread throughout the countryside. The animals understood the importance of disseminating the message of their successful...
