Animal Farm Quote Analysis

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In just about every case, Socialism devolves into dictatorships, and a lack of freedoms, (Which is exactly why Animal Farm was “founded”, because of the mistreatment and slavery of animals by humans.) A dictatorship, however, is exactly what Animal Farm became. In the 6th Chapter(?), George Orwell states, “All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings.

Throughout the spring and summer they worked a 60-hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday Afternoons as well. This
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First, is this line, in which George Orwell describes, “AS WINTER drew on, Mollie became more and more troublesome. She was late for work every morning and excused herself by saying that she had overslept, and she complained of mysterious pains, although her appetite was excellent.” This evidence is describing how Molly is acting sick so she won’t have to do work, and yet despite her supposedly being sick, she eats voraciously at mealtimes, effectively making her a freeloader, the definition of a freeloader, if you couldn’t guess, is “a person who takes advantage of others' generosity without giving anything in return.” so, effectively Molly in this situation. Later in the same chapter, they happened to find that Molly was receiving gifts from other farmers and going against the very reason for Animal Farm’s existence, as is evident from this line, in which Orwell states, “‘Mollie,’ she said, ‘I have something very serious to say to you. This morning I saw you looking over the hedge that divides Animal Farm from Foxwood. One of Mr. Pilkington's men was standing on the other side of the hedge. And−I was a long way away, but I am almost certain I saw this−he was talking to you and you were allowing him to

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