Allegory
The allegorical counterpart of Old Major
What is Karl Marx/Vladimir Lenin?
"Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey."
What is Benjamin?
Any form of communication that uses distorted, false or misleading information to influence a mass audience.
What is propaganda?
"Surely there is no one among you who wants Jones to come back?"
What is fear/manipulation?
The name of the song of the rebellion
What is Beasts of England?
The allegorical counterpart of Squealer
What is propaganda?
"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves."
What is Squealer?
The idea that socioeconomic classes should be abolished.
What is Communism?
"It happened that Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped... giving birth to nine sturdy puppies... Napoleon took them from their mothers, saying that he would make himself responsible for their education."
The main topic that divided the animals (especially Snowball and Napoleon)
What is building the windmill?
The allegorical counterpart of Boxer
What is the working class?
"Snowball has done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year."
What is Napoleon?
A technique in which ideas, customs, behaviors, or institutions are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society.
What is satire?
What is loyalty/trust?
What the animals see when they look into the house at the end of the book
What is "men and pigs indistinguishable from one another"?
The allegorical counterpart of Napoleon's dogs
What is Stalin's secret police?
"Will there still be sugar after the Rebellion?"
What is Mollie?
A work with two levels of meaning - a literal one and a symbolic one.
What is allegory?
"He [Napoleon] announced that... In the future all questions relating to the work on the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs, presided over by himself."
What is power/control?
What actually brought about the rebellion
What is "Jones got drunk and forgot to feed the animals"?
The allegorical counterpart of Mollie
What is the wealthy upper class?
"No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade."
A brief tale told to illustrate a moral or teach a lesson, often using animals to represent people.
What is a fable?
"About this time, too, it was laid down as a rule that when a pig and any other animal must stand aside: and also that all pigs were to have the privilege of wearing green ribbons on their tails on Sundays."
What is opression/inequality?
The pigs resemble human revolutionary leaders in that they...
What is "eventually adopt the ways of their former rulers"?