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Animal farm: key quotes - Coggle Diagram
Animal farm: key quotes
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Corruption
"Squealer spoke so persuasively [...] that they accepted his explanation without further questions"
Squealer is controlling the animals to prevent them from questioning their opinions. He uses persuasive language to make the animals disbelieve what they have seen and believe the lies he tells them (chapter 5)
"Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back!"
The mention of Jones spreads fear through the animals, and they will submit themselves to the pigs as they believe that this is the only way they can be protected from Jones. The pigs then take advantage of this to abuse their power. (chapter 3)
The Failure of Intellect
"Benjamin could read as well as any pig, but never exercised his faculty"
Benjamin is literate but refuses to read. Orwell is suggesting that intelligence is worthless without the moral sense to engage in politics (chapter 3)
"So far as he knew, he said, there was nothing worth reading"
Benjamin has a cynical attitude despite being educated, and is well aware of what is going on. However, education is useless without the action to back it up (chapter 3)
"On the whole, these projects were a failure"
The pigs are said to be the most intelligent animals on the farm, but their intelligence rarely produces anything of value. Instead, they use this intelligence to manipulate and abuse the other animals (chapter 3)
"...seemed to understand, but would say nothing
Benjamin is the only one who understands what Squealer was doing to the 10 commandments, but would not say anything to the other animals. He has the capacity to change the fate of the animals but without the interest to do so, his intelligence is useless (chapter 8)
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