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Chapter 6
VOCABULARY
• Idle – lazy
• Quarry – a place where stone is dug up out of the
ground
• Limestone – a type of white or grey stone
containing calcium, used for building or making
cement.
• Toil – to work very hard doing something
difficult and tiring especially physical work
• Arable – land that is suitable or used for growing
crops.
• Timid – shy and nervous
VOCABULARY
• Solicitor – a lawyer who gives legal advice,
writes legal contracts and represents people in
the lower courts of law.
• Simultaneously – at the same time
• Recreation – things that you do to enjoy
yourself.
• Repose [literary] – a calm or relaxed state
• Perpendicularity – completely upright and
straight
VOCABULARY
• Imposing – large and impressive
• Gale – a very strong wind
• Malignity – Showing someone that you want to
do something bad to someone
• Avenge-To react to something wrong that has
been done to you by punishing the person who
did it
• Ignominious-Very embarrassing especially
because of making you seem very unsuccessful
or unimportant
• Indignation-Anger about an unfair situation or
about someone’s unfair behaviour.
Chapter 6
Work, work, work
 Note the first line: “...the animals worked like slaves.”
 This is exactly why they started the Rebellion, so that they would
NOT have to work like slaves
 Work on Sundays is voluntary, but then your food would be less (choice?)
 Great difficulty building the windmill
 cannot break stone into pieces of suitable size with tools
 end up dragging and rolling the stones to the top of the quarry and
pushing them over the edge to break apart below
 the process was slow and laborious
 it took a big toll on Boxer
Chapter 6
Breaking the rules
 Because of unforeseen shortages, Napoleon decides to engage in trade
with the humans
 This unsettles the animals, as trade and using money were some of the
vices of men they were supposed to avoid according to Old Major
 He will sell a stack of hay and part of the wheat crop
 The hens should sacrifice some of their eggs for sale
 Two things that always interfere with any animal speaking against the pigs:
 the growling dogs = fear
 the bleating sheep = stupidity and short attention span
 The tremendous power of propaganda reinforces the pigs’ power – they are
creating their own version of history, their own version of Animalism and
use Snowball as a scapegoat for their treachery
Chapter 6
Breaking the rules ... again
 When the pigs move into the farmhouse, the animals are officially no
longer equal.
 Napoleon gets the title of “Leader”
 Pigs are now upper class – they are elevated above the others (no equality)
 The pigs abuse the power that they now have by giving themselves
privileges that the other animals won’t have
 they change the commandment – no animals shall sleep in a bed – to
suit their selfishness and give themselves a more comfortable lifestyle
 they get up an hour later in the mornings – sleep more than the
others
Chapter 6
The windmill destroyed
 A violent storm destroys the windmill
 Napoleon blames the destruction of the windmill on Snowball
 Snowball is now the scapegoat – everything that goes wrong on the
farm is blamed on him
 If the animals are focused on and scared of Snowball, their attention
would be away from Napoleon’s lack of leadership and the pigs’ selfish
endeavours
 Note that Napoleon pronounces the death sentence on Snowball – even
though it is against the commandments to kill any other animal