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old majors speech
1.
ow, comrades, what is the nature of the life of ours? let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. we are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. no animal in england knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old. no animal in england is free. the life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.\

1. \but is this simply part of the order of nature? is it because this land of ours is so poor that it cannot afford a decent life to those who dwell upon it? no, comrades, a thousand times no! the soil of england is fertile, its climate is good, it is capable of affording food in abundance to an enormously greater number of animals than now inhabit it. this single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep—and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining. why then do we continue in this miserable condition? because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings. there, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. it is summed up in a single word—man. man is the only real enemy we have. remove man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.\
2. \man is the only creature that consumes without producing. he does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. yet he is lord of all the animals. he sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin. you cows that i see before me, how many thousands of gallons of milk have you given during this last year? and what has happened to that milk which should have been breeding up sturdy calves? every drop of it has gone down the throats of our enemies.\
3. why might orwell use the word choice \comrade\ instead of \friends\? what correlation does this word have in history?
4. how does orwell summarize the main point of paragraph 1? underline the one sentence that can sum up the entire paragraph.
5. the main idea of paragraph 2 can best be summarized as __.

a. the soil of england is fertile.
b. the enemy is man.
c. the soil of england is fertile enough to support us all if man is removed.
d. the land cannot provide enough for us and man together.

1. if you wanted to prove that the farm animals were not living in \comfort and dignity,\ which form of evidence would provide the strongest support?

a. \our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.\
b.
o animal knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old.\
c. \we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty.\
d. \this single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep--and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining.\

1. underline all the evidence in paragraph 3 used to prove \man is the only creature that consumes without producing.\

Explanation:

The problem is about analyzing a literary text (Old Major's Speech from Animal Farm) and answering comprehension questions. The subfield of Arts - Literature is appropriate as it involves literary analysis, understanding themes, word choices, and summarizing text.

Answer:

The subfield is Literature (under Arts).