Since the collapse of the windmill, the animals are freezing and starving. They rebuild it 3ft. thick, instead of 18in. thick, so it won't be so frail for the wind to blow it down so easily. This meant more cruel work involving collecting larger amounts of stone. Boxer's and Benjamin's attitude did not change. They still were determined to work harder.
The dogs that Napoleon used to chase Snowball off the farm, were now his person protection guards.
Squealer comes in and announces that the hens must give up their eggs as a resource to trade with the other farms. It was announced earlier as a possibility, but they didn't think the pigs were going to go through with it. When they try to rebel, Napoleon's punishment is to starve them, and any animal that gives them any food, will be punished. As a
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result, nine hens die. Snowball is taking the blame for the windmill.
Boxer seems to remember exactly the way that it occurred, but Squealer quickly convinces him that his memory is faulty. Actually, Snowball sneaks in every night under cover of darkness, and performs all sorts of mischief. The animals are disturbed when they hear this. Napoleon checks out every square inch of the farm for any track or evidence of …show more content…
Snowball. Snowball sells himself to Pinchfield farm, which is planning to attack/take over Animal Farm.
At a meeting, several animals confess to having been in league with Snowball, or with Jones, or both. (the vicious dogs might have had something to do with the confession.) Snowball has been in league with Jones all this time as his personal agent. This evidence is some secret documents that Jones left behind.
After they confess, Napoleon has them killed by the dogs, (which violates commandment #6). This Revolution is going downhill fast. The new commandment is written in blood, and states, “No animal shall kill any other animal...without a purpose/cause.”
Due to Boxer's doubt, regarding the new and rewritten history, Napoleon tries (and fails) to have him killed by the
dogs. None of the animals, and especially not Boxer, think that Napoleon actually ordered the attack. On the surface, it just looks like the dogs went rogue and attacked him. But some of the animals have picked up on the fact that things aren't quite working out. Clover looks over the farm and thinks to herself that these scenes of bloody terror are certainly not what the animals have worked so hard for. Squealer is accompanied by two dogs to tell the animals that by a special decree of Napoleon,"Beasts of England" and the meetings are no longer needed, because the revolution is complete, and is abolished.
First, Squealer persuades the animals on the farm that the pigs are keeping the apples and milk for their health, even though the pigs enjoy these items. At Animal Farm, Squealer says the following: “Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them, myself. Our sole object in doing these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig.
Under the pigs supervision, animals change the name of the farm to “Animal Farm” and adopt “Animalism” along with “Seven Commandments of Animalism” which are painted on the wall. At first Rebellion seemed to be a success, they harvest and even try to build a windmill, but then the animals realize that as they received less and less food, pigs got fatter and fatter. Napoleon’s leadership becomes a dictatorship. Pigs break the Seven Commandments by their will. For example, one night pigs become drunk and the Commandment, "No animals shall drink alcohol" is changed to, "No animal shall drink
Later in the novel, Squealer claims that Napoleon is a suitable leader for animal farm, and explains that Snowball is a traitor. Squealer supports this idea by comparing Snowball to Napoleon. The animals were confused on why Snowball was chased off the farm. One of the animal...
told the animals that Snowball was with Mr. Jones from the starting. (Ch 6. P.
We got to put a stop to this immediately. We got to bring Snowball back.” All the animals had agreed upon what Clover had said. Secretly the animals would have meetings now and then when Napoleon and the others were not around. “I have found a way to get rid of that obnoxious pig, Napoleon, but I am going to need your help and Snowball is willing to help us”, Clover said to the animals at one of their planned meetings....
Squealer, using excellent scare tactics and under Napoleon’s control, acquires the pigs the power to control the decisions made on the farm by giving the animals daunting thoughts of a farm gone array due to their flawed decision-making. He dispels the idea of Snowball’s loyalty to animalism by saying that if the animals would have followed Snowball, Jones would have returned and if the animals do not choose wisely whom to trust, the humans and Snowball will return. By cleverly inducing fear into the animals, the pigs are able to convince them to agree with and support anything they suggest. The pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm use specific laws, use unknown vocabulary and excruciating detail, implement scare tactics, and create and manipulate laws to successfully attain the other animal’s trust, acquire certain luxuries unavailable to most animals, and establish themselves as the dictators of a totalitarian-like society. Through using detailed, unknown vocabulary, specific laws, and scare tactics, the pigs acquire the ability to drink alcohol, sleep on beds, eat and drink the milk and apples, destroy Snowball’s credibility, and establish a trust between themselves and the other animals.
Mr. Jones was unable to defeat the animals, therefore the animals got a boost of confidence. Now at this point Mollie runs away and Snowball begins his plans for a windmill. When Snowball’s plans are finished, Napoleon’s dog’s start to chase him off the farm. The farm just lost the best leader they could have had. They loose their chance to give input on what direction the farm should go, and Napoleon begings blaming Snowball for all the things that he did not do. Now Napoleon sets the animals to work on Sundays again and acquires Mr. Whymper as the farm’s broker. Napoleon starts to sell some of the farm’s produce. And the pigs start sleeping one hour later, and in beds. Then the windmill gets blown over and Snowball gets the blame. At this point the pigs still continue to abuse the power and stealing from the other animals.
From the very beginning, Napoleon started breaking the commandment that stated all animals are equal. He had all the milk and apples set aside for the pigs. He put forth the idea that the pigs depended on these things for survival, and that it was in the interest of the entire farm that they be set aside for them. The others were convinced by Squealer’s arguments that
Jones and were finally free. As the reader, I start to believe that the animals are going to wonderfully run the farm. “ Napoleon then led them back to the store-shed and served out a double ration of corn to everybody, with two biscuits for each dog” (40). Life for the animals is going great so far as all the animals are complemented greatly. Now all the animals are not that smart. The pigs are the wisest of all the animals especially their two leaders: Napoleon and Snowball. They change the name of the farm to Animal Farm and establish the principles of the Seven Commandments for all animals to follow. Everything is good until somehow all the milk disappears.
...their greedy eyes they saw no reason to save the other farm animals. The book gives as little evidence of any pig showing protest to Napoleon’s actions except of course Snowball and the other three executed pigs.
What's worse, Napoleon came to constantly use Snowball to shift the blame on every small mishap on the farm. For example, when the windmill was first destroyed by the tornado, Napoleon blamed it on Snowball. Also, Snowball was blame for destroying farm property, mixing foods with weeds, and secretly conspiring with human, which was strictly prohibited by animal law. However, the accusations were never proven true, as Snowball was never heard from again since his expulsion.
Included in these commandments is the sixth one which states that no animal shall kill any other animal. Napoleon breaks this commandment when he kills the chickens he says
The main characters include Snowball, a inventive, effervescent pig, who took over after Jones left. Napoleon is a Berkshire Boar and is vastly different from Snowball. He’s strong minded, selfish, and pompous. He and snow ball are in constant conflict until Snowball was chased off the farm by Napoleon’s dogs. Other character’s include Jones, the owner of the farm, who was constantly drunk and treated the animals poorly. Squealer, the animal who was constantly rallying the animals and making them believe whatever Napoleon tells them to believe. Boxer, a horse, who was the backbone of the farm.
Once Snowball is driven out of the farm, Napoleon slowly broke the rules and asked Squealer, his public speaker and servant, to change them in his benefit so he is not perceived as a traitor among the animals. His plans was first noticed when Clover began to question whether the pigs were allowed to sleep in the farmhouse
If the hens didn’t want to produce eggs, Napoleon decided he would starve them and not give them food until the hens changed their minds and did what Napoleon had told them to do. This incident occurred when Napoleon had a contract with Whymper for giving him four hundred eggs every week, just so the price of that can pay for the grains and meals. “He ordered the hens’ rations to be stopped.” (Orwell 51). The quotation explains that Napoleon acted ruthlessly and didn’t have mercy on the hens until they gave up and decided to give him all the eggs, even though in this small rebellion against him, nine hens had died in the meantime.