LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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Question
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Napoleon was hungover
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Napoleon was actually dead
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Napoleon had been wounded
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Napoleon was losing his mind.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the morning, Squealer is the first to emerge at nine a.m. He announces that Napoleon is dying because Snowball poisoned his food. Squealer says that Napoleon’s final pronouncement that drinking alcohol is punishable by death.
Detailed explanation-2: -What happened the day before Squealer said Napoleon was dying? The pigs had found a case of whiskey in the farmhouse cellar.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why was Comrade Napoleon “dying” and that Snowball poisoned Napoleon’s food? Napoleon had gotten drunk and was hung-over, but he knows Napoleon will live. It is a way to further blame Snowball. What is Boxer’s ambition after the windmill battle?
Detailed explanation-4: -Three weeks after Snowball’s escape, Napoleon surprises everybody by announcing that the windmill will be built. He sends Squealer to the animals to explain that the windmill was really Napoleon’s idea all along and that the plans for it were stolen from him by Snowball.