GCSE AQA 'Animal Farm': Key Quotations

“Four legs good, two legs bad.”

Sheep

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

The Pigs

“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.”

Old Major

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

George Orwell

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."

Old Major

"Those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?"

Snowball (to Mollie)

1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.3. No animal shall wear clothes.4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.5. No animal shall drink alcohol.6. No animal shall kill any other animal.7. All animals are equal.

The 7 Commandments (The Pigs)

"I will work harder!"

Boxer

"Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey."

Old Benjamin

"We pigs are brain workers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples."

Squealer

"War is war. The only good human being is a dead one."

Snowball

Who is the following about? "As [she] looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears."

Clover

"We have built the walls far too thick for that. They could not knock it down in a week. Courage, comrades!"

Napoleon

“Comrades, do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? ”

Snowball

“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?” Which character says this?

Squealer

Who says the following? "I do not understand it. I would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm."

Boxer

Who says the following? "Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van?"

Old Benjamin

Who is the following about? "... of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."

Mr Jones

"All the animals were now present except ...... the tame raven" What is the name of the absent raven?

Moses

Who says the following? "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples."

Squealer