Sample question - CCEAEvidence that the pigs abuse their power

You could include some of the following points in your essay:

• Napoleon’s violent power can be seen through his expulsion of Snowball and how he uses the “enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars”
• Napoleon rules the animals with fear and terror
• Napoleon uses false confessions and executions to get rid of his enemies
• Napoleon abuses his power in exploiting Boxer’s goodness and loyalty
• Napoleon uses Squealer to maintain his dictatorship through propaganda and fear, “He could turn black into white”
• Squealer brainwashes the other animals by taking advantage of their lack of intelligence
• Squealer changes and distorts the Seven Commandments, “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others”
• Squealer repeatedly threatens the animals that Jones will return
• the pigs break the commandments and trick the other animals, eg trading with humans
• the pigs use their power for their own good, e.g. they take the apples and milk for themselves
• the pigs decide on all “questions of farm policy”
• under the pigs’ control, the animals work 60 hours per week, more than when Jones was in charge of the farm
• they betray Boxer by selling him