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Pigs deal with challenges to their authority
Part b) of Question 3 asks candidates to answer on another moment from Animal Farm.
Explore another moment in Animal Farm in which the pigs deal with challenges to their authority.
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Marking points
- 1 Chooses a relevant moment elsewhere in Animal Farm.
- 2 Explains how the pigs deal with challenge.
- 3 Analyses Orwell's methods with textual evidence.
Full-mark answer
A strong response might discuss Squealer's explanations about the milk and apples, the public confessions, the hens' rebellion, or the rewriting of the Commandments. It would show how the pigs use propaganda, fear and violence to make challenge seem futile.
Why this answer loses marks
The pigs are unfair whenever the animals disagree with them.
This stays at whole-novel summary level and does not choose a precise moment or analyse Orwell’s methods.