Power, Control & Language Quotes
English Lit: AQA GCSE Animal Farm, topic 5.2.2
Power and Control
Power and violence is linked from the moment that Mr Jones fires his gun to silence the animals.
Jones' cruelty
- Old Major: “Every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year”.
Physical strength - Boxer
- “As strong as any two ordinary horses put together”.
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Manipulating language
- “Squealer could turn black into white”.
Powerless animals
- When Snowball is chased off the farm, Boxer can’t “think of anything to say”.
- The other animals lack power as they don't have the words to express themselves.
Seizing control of language
- “No one dared speak their mind”.
- The animals “believed every word of it”.