Characters
This character represents the working class and is known for saying, “I will work harder!”
Who is Boxer?
Napoleon trains these animals to act as his personal bodyguards.
What are the dogs?
Mr Jones symbolises this historical figure.
Who is Tsar Nicholas II?
The Seven Commandments are reduced to this single maxim.
What is "Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad"?
Squealer asks, “Surely none of you wants to see Jones return?”
Identify the technique
What is a rhetorical question?
This pig becomes the farm’s tyrannical leader.
Who is Napoleon?
This event begins the original rebellion.
What is Mr Jones forgetting to feed the animals?
Orwell uses the animals to represent this type of political system.
What is a regime?
“Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure!”
Identify the speaker.
Who is Squealer?
“Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours?”
Identify the technique
What is direct address?
This character is the farm’s cynical donkey who rarely believes in change.
Who is Benjamin?
This commandment is broken first by the pigs.
What is the commandment about sleeping in beds?
Boxer represents this social class in Russia.
What is the proletariat (working class)?
“Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.”
Identify the speaker
Who is Benjamin?
Napoleon ends announcements with firm, unquestionable statements such as “This is final.”
Identify the technique
What is a declarative statement?
This character spreads propaganda on Napoleon’s behalf.
Who is Squealer?
The pigs justify taking apples and milk by saying they need it for this reason.
What is brainwork?
The book is an example of this type of story where characters symbolise deeper meanings.
What is an allegory?
"Boxer!" cried [NAME] in a terrible voice. "Boxer! Get out! Get out quickly!"
Identify the speaker
Who is Clover?
The sheep constantly chant slogans to drown out dissent.
Identify the technique
This character becomes a scapegoat.
Who is Snowball?
This is the reason the windmill collapses the first time.
What is the storm?
The dogs represent this organisation from Soviet history.
What is the KGB?
“The only good human being is a dead one.”
Identify the speaker
Squealer uses this technique when he twists facts to benefit the pigs.
What is propaganda?