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, shape them, tabula rasa
milk and apples go to the pigs, Squealer spins it with fallacious argument evoking science, specter of Mr. Jones, pigs sacrificing for animals
-animals are naive, childlike, ignorant, credulous - doesn't ask questions, incredulous ask questions, don't believe easily, skeptical
“How they toiled and sweated...” (17)
“Gee up, comrade” (17)
“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)
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