Animal Farm - Character Old Major

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In the quote "weak or strong, clever or simple" what device is used?
juxtaposition
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This juxtaposition may present the inherent what?
inequality between the animals
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This may foreshadow the inevitable what?
lack of equality later in the novlla
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We can see Old Major here doing what?
contradicting himself
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Additionally in the quote "brothers" what device is used?
semantic field of family
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This familial term may suggest an attempt to do what?
remove any differences
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Remove any differences between who?
all the animals
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He is trying to create a sense of what?
togetherness
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CONTEXT
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This speech could demonstrate Orwells what?
socialist beliefs
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And working as a?
collective in society
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In the quote "miserable, laborious and short" what devices is used?
power of three or a list
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The language may indicate the harsh?
reality of the animals lives
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Under who?
the oppressive humans
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This may do what to the animals?
motivate them
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Motivate them to do what?
carry out the rebellion for a better life
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The structural device of a list may foreshadow what?
the inevitability
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Inevitability of what?
of the animals lives remaining like this even after the rebellion
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This indicates what about the novella?
the cyclical nature
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CONTEXT
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The description of the animals?
condition
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Through who?
Old Major
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Could be a commentary on the lives of those ?
in Russia under Tsar Nicholas II
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In the quote "wise" what device is used?
characterisation
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Here we can see Old Major presented as what?
an intelligent figure
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This may persuade the animals to do what?
listen to his speech
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And work to?
achieve animalism
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In the quote "benevolent" what device is used?
characterisation
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Here we can see Old Major being described with?
a God-like quality of being kind
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This may give us what connotations?
religious connotations
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This indicates that he is seen as what?
compassionate
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And a what figure?
God-like figure
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Amongst who?
the animals
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CONTEXT
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Through Old Major we can see Orwell creating a what perception?
a positive perception
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Of who?
Lenin
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Who used his knowledge of?
communism
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To lead the what party?
Bolshevik
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Towards a ?
revolution
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For a ?
better life
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In the quote "comrades" the device used is what?
semantic field of war and friendship
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This may foreshadow the what?
war
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Between who?
humans and animals
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This also shows how all the animals are?
together in this battle
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Including who?
Old Major
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CONTEXT
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Here Orwell is presenting the?
requirement
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To come together by?
Lenin
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For?
the Russian Revolution
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EXTRA
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All the quotes are from where in the narrative?
Exposition
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This juxtaposition may present the inherent what?

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This may foreshadow the inevitable what?

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We can see Old Major here doing what?

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Additionally in the quote "brothers" what device is used?

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