ANIMAL FARM QUOTATIONS AND CONTEXT

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"Boxer could not get past the letter D" - links to the theme of lack of education and how Napoleon (Stalin) was able to manipulate the other animals (the Russian Proletariat) because they were simply too uneducated to realise what was happening. This is also very ironic as Orwell wanted to convey how the lower class had all the power and if they were educated would have easily been able to overthrow Stalin because there was a greater number.

"Vote for Napoleon and a full manger" - this links to the idea of post truth politics and how Napoleon (Stalin) was feeding the animals (lower class) with the idea that he would do everything they wanted as leader and due to the lack of education he was able to manipulate them into thinking this was the truth.

"Napoleon was seen walking on his hind legs" - Conveys the idea that as the allegory progresses Napoleon adopts more and more human characteristics until the he is unrecognisable as an animal

"The animals looked from pig to man and man to pig and already it was impossible to say which was which" - Links to the true dishonesty Napoleon has brought upon the animals and how naive they are.

"They were all slain on the spot" - Shows the pure brutality of Napoleons dictatorship and is highly ironic to the idea of the seven commandments and the links to how Stalin would force the lower class to confess to crime which they hadn't done which Orwell followed up.

"No one wants to see Jones back" - Squealers manipulation as he uses Jones and Snowball as a skape goat to make the animals fear and conform to Napoleons rulling.

"Although the animals thought they remembered" - Napoleon has manipulated them so much that they are questioning there own memory and they have been so brainwashed no one remembers the truth and no one knows any different other than Napoleons ruling.

"In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday everyday" - Napoleon uses Moses to continue in the manipulation of the other animals and the idea of Sunday was used to keep the animals sain as they would look forward to into and increasing their work ethic. This links to Karl Marx's idea that "religion…