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How does napoleon help solidify his leadership? |
-He created a more aristocratic lifestyle from the other animals by: his rare public appearances, cockerel trumpeter, separate housings, fancy meals, and the annual gun firings on his birthday. -The poem about Napoleon and Squealer's exaggeration of Napoleon's greatness through his speeches. |
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What does Napoleon’s changing attitude toward his two neighbors, Pilkington and Frederick, signify on an allegorical level? |
-His attitude symbolizes how Stalin plays and misleads Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, and Winston Churchill, the leader of the British. |
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How do Frederick’s men eventually destroy the windmill? |
-They use a hammer and crowbar to drill a hole to pack with blasting powder |
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What does Napoleon threaten to do to Frederick if he is captured? |
-He would be boiled alive. |
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Why does Napoleon order the gun to be fired after the attack? What are his underlying motives with regard to his reputation? |
-The gun firing is to celebrate the departure of the enemy. -His motive was to make himself look like a good leader that cares about the animals and the farm. |
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How is Squealer’s announcement that “Napoleon is dying” after a night of drinking an example of dramatic irony? |
-The readers know that Napoleon and the pigs were only drunk from drinking alcohol the previous night. |
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How does Napoleon’s attitude toward alcohol change on the morning after his night of drinking, and further on throughout the following day? |
Napoleon's grows to like alcohol to the point where he learns and makes plans to grow and brew the alcohol on the farm. |
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Why do the animals have difficulty explaining Squealer’s fall from the ladder? Which animal is the only one who understands what has happened? |
-The naive, uneducated animals wouldn't have suspected Squealer to be doing anything to the Commandments. -Old Benjamin |
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Why does Benjamin not share his wisdom with the other animals? What does his silence tell about Orwell’s attitude toward human nature? |
-Benjamin's silence shows that Orwell feels that human nature will get what they deserve from the problems that they cause. -His silence represented the the unavoidable corruption of human nature that will eventually be bestowed upon the pigs. |
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Why does Boxer refuse to rest after he splits his hoof? |
-Boxer wanted the windmill to have a good outcome with his hard work and dedication. |
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What have the animals been told will happen to them when they can no longer work? |
-The animals would get a pension. |
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What indicates that the retirement plan for the animals is unrealistic and might not be carried through? |
-The food supply and rations were insufficient for the many animals that needed to be fed; there wasn't enough land, and there were no animals that retired successfully. |
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What propagandistic euphemism does Squealer use to tell the animals that their rations are going to be reduced? |
-Readjustments |
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Which new privileges for the pigs does Napoleon enact in Chapter IX? |
-The pigs receive a school, daily pints of beer, the ability to wear green ribbons every Sunday, and how the other animals clear the path for the pigs. |
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What is Napoleon’s new official status on Animal Farm? |
-Napoleon is recognized as the Animal Farm's president. |
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What is the allegorical significance of Moses’ return to Animal Farm? |
-The outlawed Russian Orthodox Church's return to Russia. |
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What does Napoleon promise to do when he hears that Boxer is sick? What are his real intentions? |
-Napoleon promises to send Boxer to a vet. -Napoleon intends to kill Boxer. |
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How are Napoleon and Squealer able to convince the animals that Boxer died peacefully at the hospital instead of being killed by the horse slaughterer? |
-Napoleon and Squealer's speech for Boxer convinced the animals with what they wanted to hear. |