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GCSE English Literature · key term
A person who acts between two parties, arranging communication or business. Whymper connects Napoleon with the human world.
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Paper 2
Revise: Mr Jones and the farmersWhymper is not another landowner: he is a solicitor who becomes Napoleon's intermediary with the outside world. Trade offers access to materials the farm cannot produce, but it also abandons Old Major's rejection of human business practices. In the allegory, Whymper can be understood as representing the commercial intermediaries who made dealings between the Soviet Union and the capitalist world possible.
Paper 1
A person who acts between two parties, passing on instructions or arranging dealings. Whymper connects Napoleon with the human world.
Distinguish the humans: Jones loses the farm, Pilkington owns Foxwood, Frederick owns Pinchfield, and Whymper is a solicitor and intermediary rather than a farmer.
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Whymper becomes the intermediary. The narrator calls him “a sly-looking little man with side whiskers” and explains that he recognises the opportunity to earn commissions. His involvement is motivated by profit rather than loyalty to Animalism.
Paper 1
A person who acts between two parties, helping them communicate or conduct business.
Revise: Mr Jones and the farmersWhymper is not a farmer but a solicitor who becomes Napoleon’s intermediary in Chapter VI. The farm needs goods it cannot produce, including nails, oil and machinery. Trading therefore answers a practical problem, but also compromises the animals’ original rejection of human business relations.
