In the passage, the tools such as bits, reins, halters, knives, and whips symbolize the oppression of the working class under the tsar. These items represent the means by which the ruling class (in this case, Mr. Jones) exercised control and inflicted suffering upon the animals (the working class). The act of disposing of these tools signifies the animals' rejection of their oppressive conditions and their desire for freedom and autonomy.
Read the passage from chapter 2 of Animal Farm.
The harness-room at the end of the stables was broken open; the bits, the nose-rings, the dog-chains, the cruel knives with which Mr. Jones had been used to castrate the pigs and lambs, were all flung down the well. The reins, the halters, the blinkers, the degrading nosebags, were thrown on to the rubbish fire which was burning in the yard. So were the whips. All the animals capered with joy when they saw the whips going up in flames.
What do the tools such as bits, reins, halters, knives, and whips symbolize in the story?
the weapons Russians used to overthrow the tsar
the excesses that the tsar’s ruling class enjoyed
the tools the tsar used to torture those who rebelled
the oppression of the working class under the tsar
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