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GCSE English Literature · key term
A group that controls a society’s decisions and resources, often protecting its own advantages.
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The group that controls a society’s decisions and resources. In Animal Farm, the pigs become a ruling class rather than representatives accountable to the other animals.
Revise: Equality and classOrwell traces how the pigs turn their initial role as organisers into membership of a new ruling class. The animals remove their human master, but eventually support another privileged group.
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The pigs preserve the vocabulary of equality while establishing themselves as a ruling class. Orwell’s satire exposes how political ideals can be used to legitimise their opposite.
Paper 1
A group that controls a society’s decisions and resources, often maintaining privileges denied to those it governs.
Revise: Equality and classA ruling class is a group that controls a society’s power and resources. The Rebellion removes the human ruling class, but Orwell gradually shows the pigs becoming a new one.
