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Themes, Ideas and Messages Categorise

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Political Corruption
The Power of Language
Social Class
Selfishness
Education

'Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?' (Chapter 5)
'A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded. The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention.' (Chapter 6)
'It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples' (Chapter 3)
'On every kind of pretext she would run away from work and go to the drinking pool' (Chapter 5)
'The other animals understood how to vote, but could never think of any resolutions of their own'. (Chapter 3)
'Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer – except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.' (Chapter 10)
'Benjamin could read as well as any pig, but never exercised his faculty. So far as he knew, he said, there was nothing worth reading' (Chapter 3)
'And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this past year, and how many of those eggs ever hatched into chickens? The rest have all gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his men' (Chapter 1)
'Snowball had made a close study of some back numbers of the "Farmer and Stockbreeder" which he had found in the farmhouse.' (Chapter 5)
'Snowball also busied himself with organising the other animals into what he called Animal Committees' (Chapter 3)
'FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD'. (Chapter 2)
'Even in the farmhouse, it was said, Napoleon inhabited separate apartments from the others' (Chapter 8)
'He was a sly-looking little man with side whiskers ... but sharp enough to have realised before everyone else that Animal Farm would need a broker and that the commissions would be worth having' (Chapter 6)
'The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the leadership.' (Chapter 3)
'His two slogans, "I will work harder" and "Napoleon is always right", seemed to him a sufficient answer to all problems' (Chapter 6) 
'Napoleon ended his speech with his usual cry of "long live Animal Farm!''' (Chapter 6)
'I could show you this in his own writing, if you were able to read it.' (Chapter 7)
'Mollie refused to learn any but the six letters which spelt her own name' (Chapter 3)
'Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.' (Chapter 5) 
'Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.' (Chapter 1) 
'From now onwards Animal Farm would engage in trade with the neighbouring farms...' (Chapter 6)
'Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility' (Chapter 5)
'... there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying' (Chapter 1)
'No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old.' (Chapter 1)
'Will there still be sugar after the Rebellion?' (Chapter 2)
'The title-deeds, which were in his own possession, were owned by the pigs jointly.' (Chapter 10)
'Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest' (Chapter 1)
'The animals decided unanimously to create a military decoration, "Animal Hero, First Class"' (Chapter 4)
'Hitherto the animals on the farm had had a rather foolish custom of addressing one another as "Comrade". This was to be suppressed' (Chapter 10)
'In April, Animal Farm was proclaimed a Republic, and it became necessary to elect a President.' (Chapter 9)

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