NOTES
Mollie shirking
Cat shamelessly lazy, shyster, charmer
Old Benjamin “unchanged” “would express no opinion”
“cryptic answer”
regular Sunday ceremony, “the meeting”
flag- symbolism, representative of ideal
pigs put resolution- animals vote
meeting ends “Beasts of England”
Napoleon & Snowball “never in agreement” (20),
beginnings of power struggle
pigs have headquarters
Animal committees, all failures, animals reverting to
type
literacy program, Benjamin “nothing worth reading” (21),
most animals functionally illiterate, illiterate masses
therefore Snowball reduces seven commandments to
“single maxim”
“essential principle of Animalism”
"Four legs good, two legs
bad"
Napoleon takes young dogs to raise
children are like clay, tabula rasa 'blank paper'
milk and apples go to the pigs, Squealer spins it with
fallacious argument evoking science, specter of Mr. Jones, pigs sacrificing for
animals
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“A
full belly to the labourer is, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals
and the only source of real public peace.” -William Cobbett, journalist,
pamphleteer, and farmer (1763-1835)
“How they toiled and sweated...” (17)
“Gee up, comrade” (17)
"Gee haw!" cowboy
"Gee haw!" cowboy
“not an animal on the farm had stolen so much as a
mouthful” (17)
“Boxer with his tremendous muscles always pulled them
though” (18)
“Nobody shirked- or almost nobody” (18)
“Donkeys live a long time” (19)
“these two were never in agreement” (20)
“Snowball declared that the Seven Commandments
could... be reduced to a single maxim...” (21)
“the education of the young was more important...”
(22)
“who wants to see Jones come back” (23)
Teacher’s example
“Everyone worked according to his capacity” (18)
Refer to Marx “From each according to his ability, to
each according to his needs”
