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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.

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.

How do Frederick’s men eventually destroy the windmill?

-They use a hammer and crowbar to drill a hole to pack with blasting powder

What does Napoleon threaten to do to Frederick if he is captured?

-He would be boiled alive.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

What have the animals been told will happen to them when they can no longer work?

-The animals would get a pension.

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.

What propagandistic euphemism does Squealer use to tell the animals that their rations are going to be reduced?

-Readjustments

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.

What is Napoleon’s new official status on Animal Farm?

-Napoleon is recognized as the Animal Farm's president.

What is the allegorical significance of Moses’ return to Animal Farm?

-The outlawed Russian Orthodox Church's return to Russia.

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.

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.