Animal Farm, Part 6: Author’s Purpose

Question 2 • FL-1001340-English 2 Sem 1 - Flex

Which statement best summarizes the author’s overall reason for writing chapter 7?

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Orwell reveals how both Stalin and Napoleon cast blame on outside forces for problems they created themselves.

Orwell uses Snowball’s expulsion and role as a scapegoat to symbolize Trotsky, whom Stalin had driven from power during the Russian Revolution.

Orwell demonstrates that most animals lack intelligence by showing how those on Animal Farm cannot run the farm efficiently or feed themselves.

Orwell draws a parallel between Stalin’s Great Purge and the deaths of a number of animals as an example of how dictators use fear to maintain power.

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Chapter 7 shows Napoleon using fear to strengthen his control: animals are pressured into confessing to crimes and then executed. These deaths parallel Stalin’s Great Purge, in which people were forced to confess and killed under his rule. Snowball is also blamed for the farm’s problems, but that detail alone does not capture the chapter’s broader focus on terror as a way to maintain power.

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