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प्रश्न
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
One Sunday morning, which the animals assembled to receive their orders,
Napoleon announced that he had decided upon a new policy.
"From now onwards Animal Farm would engage in trade with the
neighboring farms: not, of course, for any commercial purpose, but
simply in order to obtain certain materials which were urgently necessary."
(i) Why did the animals need 'certain materials'? What arrangement had Napolean made to engage in trade with the neighboring farms?
(ii) Why did Napoleon's announcement make the animals uneasy?
(iii) What did Squealer say to the animals to ease their doubts and fears?
(iv) Who was Mr. Whymper? What had the agreed to do?
Why had he entered into this agreement with Napoleon?
(v) There was a change in the attitude of humans towards Animal Farm.
Comment on this change. What were the signs and symptoms of this change?
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उत्तर
(i) The animals needed the materials to construct the windmill. However, the actual need was luxurious living for the pigs. This was similar to the exploitation of hard-working beings for selfish interests, as seen in the human world. The arrangement was the selling of a part of wheat crop and a stack of hay and four hundred eggs.
(ii) The announcement of trade made the animals uneasy as it went against the initial resolution of not engaging in trade or money-making as humans do. It was opposed to one of the commandments inscribed.
(iii) Squealer told the uneasy animals that there was no resolution of not trading for money. It was their own imagination or Snowball must have misguided them.
(iv) Whymper was the human solicitor whom Napoleon hired to represent Animal Farm in human society. Mr. Whymper's entry into the Animal Farm community-initiated contact between Animal Farm and human society, alarming the common animals. He negotiated with the humans and Napolean in trading. He was the person who made· arrangement for trading four hundred eggs, thereby initiating the Hen Rebellion. In short, he was first the · hµman intermediary, who was allowed to come in contact with the Animal Farm, after the rebellion. He enters into the agreement for financial gains.
(v) When humans got to know that the farm was progressing, they hated it more than ever. They had faith that the farm would go bankrupt, but later they started calling the farm by a proper name. They seemed to grudgingly accept that the animals were able to. keep the farm up with the product. No one ever openly supported Jones. They started seeing the farm as commercial opportunity. They were also envious of the fact that animals were constructing a windmill. They became wary of the hard-working, resourceful animals. After the windmill collapsed, human beings were inventing fresh lies about Animal Farm. Once again, it was being put about that all the animals were dying of famine and disease, and that they were continually fighting among themselves and had resorted to cannibalism and infanticide. This malicious remain;ks seemed to satisfy their ego.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
a) Read the second stanza again, in which Wordsworth compares the solitary
reaper's song with the song of the nightingale and the cuckoo. On the basis of
your reading (and your imagination), copy and complete the table below. (Work
in groups of four, then have a brief class discussion.
| Place | Heard by | Impact on listener | |
| Solitary Reaper | Scottish Highlands | the poet | holds him spellbound |
| Nightingale | |||
| Cuckoo |
b) Why do you think Wordsworth has chosen the song of the nightingale and the
cuckoo, for comparison with the solitary reaper's song?
c) As you read the second stanza, what images come to your mind? Be ready to
describe them in your own words, to the rest of the class. (Be imaginative
enough and go beyond what the poet has written.)
She again rubbed a match on the wall, and the light shone round her; in the brightness stood her old grandmother, clear and shining, yet mild and loving in her appearance. “Grandmother,” cried the little one, “O take me with you; I know you will go away when the match burns out; you will vanish like the warm stove, the roast goose, and the large, glorious Christmas-tree.” And she made haste to light the whole bundle of matches, for she wished to keep her grandmother there. And the matches glowed with a light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or so beautiful. She took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God.
In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to death on the last evening of the year; and the New-year’s sun rose and shone upon a little corpse! The child still sat, in the stiffness of death, holding the matches in her hand, one bundle of which was burnt. “She tried to warm herself,” said some. No one imagined what beautiful things she had seen, nor into what glory she had entered with her grandmother, on New-year’s day.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
Why was there a smile on the girl’s lips? Did the people understand?
Explain-'Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!' What should not be considered the goal of life?
According to Maya what was the cause behind Mr Nath’s scars?
The king rewarded the shepherd twice. How and why?
Why was Tansen afraid of singing Raga Deepak?
From where did the narrator’s father get the ladder?
What was the Dog’s experience with the Lion?
Why did the dog prefer a strong master to live in the jungle?
Why is the window dusty?
