Who Am I?
I am the vain white mare who cares more for ribbons and lump sugar than for the Rebellion.I am the animal who was caught by Clover, I was talking to the neighbor and he was petting my pretty white nose
Who is Mollie
This is what Jones fails to do for over twenty-four hours, which finally triggers the Rebellion.
What is Feed the animals
The name the pigs give to the system of thought they build from Old Major's ideas.
What is Animalism
Complete Boxer's personal maxim: "I will ___ ___."
What is "work harder"
I am the cynical old donkey. I refuse to say whether life is better or worse. I only say that donkeys live a long time.I am the cynical old donkey, but I do know how to read.
Who is Benjamin
The animals break into the store-shed for food, and when the men arrive with whips, this happens.
What is The animals attack and drive them off the farm
Whatever goes upon two legs is this.
What is An enemy
Moses preaches about this paradise, located somewhere up in the sky.
What is Sugarcandy Mountain
Old Major calls this creature "the only real enemy we have" and the only one who consumes without producing.
What is Man
I can turn black into white. When the others grumble, I am sent to explain.
Who is Squealer
Old Major dies three nights after his speech, but the Rebellion doesn't happen immediately. This is what the pigs spend the intervening months doing.The original "thinker" of the windmill.
What is Teaching and organising the other animals into Animalism
Snowball reduces the Seven Commandments to this single maxim for the simpler animals.
What is "Four legs good, two legs bad"
Sugarcandy Mountain functions as this, something that keeps the oppressed content with present suffering.
What is Religion / the promise of reward as a tool of control
Napoleon deflects attention from the missing milk with this line.
What is "Never mind the milk, comrades!"
I am the tame raven, Mr Jones's special pet. I do no work, but I tell wonderful stories.
Who is Moses
The Rebellion succeeds "so easily" and largely by accident. Orwell suggests this about how power changes hands.
What is Power vacuums are filled quickly and often by chance, not careful planning
The birds object to the maxim. This is Snowball's argument for why they are still included.
What is A wing is an organ of propulsion, not manipulation, so it counts as a leg
The milk and apples disappear in Chapter 3. This is what Squealer claims the pigs need them for.
What is Their health and brainwork, so they can manage the farm.
Reducing a complex ideology to a chant like "Four legs good, two legs bad" is dangerous for this reason.
What is It removes the ability to think critically, slogans replace argument
I am the prize Middle White boar whose real name was Willingdon Beauty.
Who is Old Major
In Chapter 3 the pigs do not work in the fields. This is the justification given for why they instead supervise.
What is They have superior knowledge / it is natural they should assume leadership
The commandments are described using this phrase, which the novel will later prove false.
What is "An unalterable law"
Squealer ends his defence of the milk and apples with this threat, which is the first use of fear as a control.
What is That Jones would come back
Squealer's rhetorical questions ("Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?") work because they do this to the listener.
What is They present a false choice, making disagreement seem like betrayal