Animal Farm

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Speaker

Chapter

“But is this simply part of the order of nature? Is it because this land of ours is so poor that it cannot afford a decent life to those who dwell upon it? No, comrades, a thousand times no!”

Major

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“Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.”

Major

1

“There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word – Man. Man is the only real enemy we have.”

Major

1

“What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!”

Major

1

“All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.”

Major

1

“And then, after a few preliminary tries, the whole farm burst out into Beasts of England in tremendous unison.”

Narrator

1

“He claimed to know of the existence of a mysterious country called Sugarcandy Mountain, to which all animals went when they died.”

Narrator

2

“Bulls which had always been tractable suddenly turned savage, sheep broke down hedges and devoured the clover, cows kicked the pail over, hunters refused their fences and shot their riders on to the other side.”

Narrator

4

“In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the animals’ backs. His imagination had now run far beyond chaff-cutters and turnip-slicers. Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater.”

Narrator

5

“The enormous difference that would be made in their lives when the sails were turning and the dynamos running — when they thought of all this, their tiredness forsook them and they gambolled round and round the windmill, uttering cries of triumph.”

Narrator

8

“He even claimed to have been there on one of his higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges.”

Narrator

9

“Their lives now, they reasoned, were hungry and laborious; was it not right and just that a better world should exist somewhere else?”

Narrator

9

“It would be the first time that he had had leisure to study and improve his mind. He intended, he said, to devote the rest of his life to learning the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet.”

Narrator

9

“And yet the animals never gave up hope. More, they never lost, even for an instant, their sense of honour and privilege in being members of Animal Farm.”

Narrator

10

“None of the old dreams had been abandoned. The Republic of the Animals which Major had foretold, when the green fields of England should be untrodden by human feet, was still believed in.”

Narrator

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