Animal Farm: Themes (Edexcel GCSE English Literature): Flashcards
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What are the 4 key themes in Animal Farm?
What are the 4 key themes in Animal Farm?
Class, Equality/Inequality, Power/Corruption, Language as Power
What do the pigs call themselves?
What do the pigs call themselves?
Mindworkers
What class does Boxer represent?
What class does Boxer represent?
Working class/proletariat
Boxer's fate when no longer useful
Boxer's fate when no longer useful
Sold to glue factory by pigs
Final version of equality commandment
Final version of equality commandment
All animals equal, but some animals more equal than others
Resources pigs appropriate for themselves
Resources pigs appropriate for themselves
Milk and apples
Napoleon's 3 methods to consolidate power
Napoleon's 3 methods to consolidate power
Fear, propaganda, and violence
Real-world leader Napoleon mirrors
Real-world leader Napoleon mirrors
Stalin
Napoleon's enforcers to maintain control
Napoleon's enforcers to maintain control
The dogs
What does Squealer represent?
What does Squealer represent?
Soviet press
Squealer's role on the farm
Squealer's role on the farm
Manipulates language/uses propaganda for pigs' benefit
Purpose of changing Seven Commandments
Purpose of changing Seven Commandments
Manipulate reality to legalise pigs' actions
How dogs maintain Napoleon's control
How dogs maintain Napoleon's control
Through fear and violence