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Animals and humans interact
Animal Farm by George Orwell. Candidates should choose another relevant moment from the set text.
Explore another moment in Animal Farm where animals and humans interact.
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Marking points
- 1 Selects a relevant interaction and analyses textual methods, not only context or plot.
Full-mark answer
No fixed answer is provided by OCR. A strong answer might analyse the final scene where pigs and humans become indistinguishable, linking Orwell's language and structure to the collapse of Animalist ideals.
Why this answer loses marks
Writing mainly about Russian Revolution context instead of analysing the text.
The examiner report warns that AO3 is not assessed in part b and that context-heavy answers on Animal Farm were often not relevant to the question.