7/10 Animal Farm Ch3

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

  “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”