Chapters 7 and 8 — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Chapters 7 and 8
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
The hard winter, the hens' revolt, the confessions and executions, Beasts of England banned, the changing Commandments,
the timber sold to Frederick, the Battle of the Windmill and the whisky.
Key quotations: 'Napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly.', 'Nine hens had died in the meantime.', 'it became usual to attribute it to Snowball', 'Snowball was in league with Jones from the very start!', 'the dogs promptly tore their throats out', 'They were all slain on the spot.', 'a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet', 'Beasts of England had been abolished', 'Animal Farm, Animal Farm, / Never through me shalt thou come to harm!', 'No animal shall kill any other animal without cause', 'The bank-notes were forgeries!', 'all the animals, except Napoleon, flung themselves flat on their bellies', 'Then we have won back what we had before', 'No animal shall drink alcohol to excess'.
Clover on the knoll after the executions: the narrator puts into words the thoughts she cannot express.
Context: the purges and show trials of the 1930s, and Stalin's pact with Hitler in 1939, which Germany broke by invading in 1941; compare Frederick's forged notes and the Battle of the Windmill.
OCR's question on this text has two parts on the same text. Part (a), 20 marks, compares a printed extract from it with an unseen extract of the same genre, and weights your response (AO1) and context (AO3) twice as heavily as language analysis (AO2), where context means the social and cultural situations you can infer from the two extracts and their introductions; an answer on only one of the two extracts cannot go above Level 3. Part (b), 20 marks, explores another moment in the same text from memory, with response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2) equally weighted and no marks for context. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the part it is for.
