Mr Jones and the farmers — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Mr Jones and the farmers
Characters
What you need to know
How Orwell presents Mr Jones and the farmers, and how the character develops across the text: Jones, Pilkington, Frederick and Whymper, the humans the pigs first overthrow and then come to resemble.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'too drunk to remember to shut the popholes', 'although a hard master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days', 'had taken to drinking more than was good for him', 'an easy-going gentleman farmer who spent most of his time in fishing or hunting', 'a tough, shrewd man, perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for driving hard bargains', 'a sly-looking little man with side whiskers', 'the sight of Napoleon, on all fours, delivering orders to Whymper, who stood on two legs', 'Serves you right.', 'he had died in an inebriates' home in another part of the county', 'Between pigs and human beings there was not, and there need not be, any clash of interests whatever.', 'Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously'.
The humans as a frame: Jones's neglect at the start, the farmers' fear and gossip, Whymper as go-between, and the dinner at the end.
Context: Jones as Tsar Nicholas II, Frederick's deal and attack as the pact with Hitler and the German invasion, and the final dinner as the Tehran Conference.
For Edexcel's essay on this text, link each point to its context and the writer's purpose, which earn as many marks as knowledge of the text (16 of 40); language analysis earns no marks there.
