Animal farm by George orwell

 

Questions: 1 which is your favourite character from "Animal farm" by George Orwell ? Why ?

Ans: 

 Snowball is my favourite character because Orwell’s stint in a Trotskyist battalion in the Spanish Civil War during which he first began plans for a critique of totalitarian communism influenced his relatively positive portrayal of Snowball. As a parallel for Leon Trotsky, Snowball emerges as a fervent ideologue who throws himself heart and soul into the attempt to spread Animalism worldwide and to improve Animal Farm’s infrastructure. His idealism, however, leads to his downfall. Relying only on the force of his own logic and rhetorical skill to gain his influence, he proves no match for Napoleon’s show of brute force.

Although Orwell depicts Snowball in a relatively appealing light, he refrains from idealizing his character, making sure to endow him with certain moral flaws. For example, Snowball basically accepts the superiority of the pigs over the rest of the animals. Moreover, his fervent, single-minded enthusiasm for grand projects such as the windmill might have erupted into full-blown megalomaniac despotism had he not been chased from Animal Farm. Indeed, Orwell suggests that we cannot eliminate government corruption by electing principled individuals to roles of power; he reminds us throughout the novella that it is power itself that corrupts. 

Questions : 2 Write 10 original lines from the text which you loved the most.

Ans : 

 - Before long the other animals began to arrive and make themselves comfortable after their different fashions. 

- This single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty. cows, hundreds of sheep

—and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining. 

 - Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? Only get rid of. Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own.

 - And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.

 - "I have little more to say. I merely repeat, remember always y. our duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways. 

 - All the habits of Man are evil. - No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equa.   

  - In a very little while the animals had destroyed everything that reminded them of Mr. Jones. 

 - ow, comrades," cried Snowball, throwing down the paint-brush, "to the hayfield! Let us make it a point of honour to get in the harvest more quickly than Jones and his men could do." 

 - How they toiled and sweated to get the hay in! But their efforts. were rewarded, for the harvest was an even bigger success than they had hoped.            

Questions:3 Interpret "all animal are equal,some are more equal" in your own words. 

 Ans: 

This is a quotation from George Orwell’s allegorical novel Animal Farm. In it the animals conspire to take control of their farm from humans, establishing ‘Animalist’ commandments to prevent the reproduction of the oppressive behaviour of humans. Unfortunately as time goes on that is exactly what happens and the pig Napoleon ends up changing the final rule of ‘All animals are equal’ so that it reads that ‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others’. This is a parody of Stalinist Russia which Orwell was criticising. 
  

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