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Animal Farm 2:Plot
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- 1Chapter 1One night on Manor Farm, Mr Jones, the farmer, goes to bed without properly shutting up the animals. They gather in the barn to listen to Old Major, a wise old pig, who speaks about the wrongs that they suffer and the abuses that man imposes on them. He points out that "man is the only creature that consumes without producing". However it is not just that but his cruelty and neglect that causes the animals to suffer unjustly. Old Major says he does not know when the rebellion will come but he urges the animals to be ready for "the overthrow of the human race", and promises that "sooner or later justice will be done". The meeting comes to an abrupt end because Mr Jones hears the animals singing "Beasts of England", the song of animal freedom that Old Major's mother taught him and which came back to him in his dream.
- 2Important Character in chapter 1?Old Major represents a blend of Karl Marx, one of the originators of the principles of communism, and Lenin, the first Bolshevik leader. The principles Old Major expounds in his speech are later enshrined in the doctrine of Animalism. Mr Jones represents the Tsar of Russia. As the other animals file into the barn for the speech, we meet different animals who clearly represent the various types of people that make up a typical society.
- 3Comparing what goes on Chapter 1 with what happens later.It is worth comparing what goes on here with what happens later. The animals debate the matter and decide that rats are comrades. They come up with a clear principle: "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend." The pigs later corrupt their ideology and twist that precept to accommodate the abuses of power they enjoy. In this way, Orwell fictionalises the distance he sees between ideals and the rottenness of the political reality.
- 4Key quotes Chapter 1:"man is the only creature that consumes without producing"
"sooner or later justice will be done"
"Beasts of England"
"the overthrow of the human race" - 5Chapter 2 :After the death of Old Major, his work is carried on by the pigs, who emerge as the cleverest of the animals. At the forefront are Napoleon and Snowball, plus a very persuasive pig called Squealer, who, it was said, "could turn black into white".Old Major dies in March and the teaching goes on after that with no real expectation of when the rebellion might come. Then in June, on Midsummer's Eve, Mr Jones neglects the animals for 24 hours. Eventually the animals are driven by hunger into action. A cow knocks down the store-shed door and they help themselves. Mr Jones and his men come in with whips and the animals turn on them and drive them out.
- 6What does the animal destroy?The animals destroy everything that reminds them of Mr Jones: whips, nose-rings and knives, for instance. They change the name of the farm to Animal Farm. They decide to preserve the house as a museum and no animal should live there.
At the meeting, which takes place after breakfast on the day after the Rebellion, the pigs introduce the animals to The Seven Commandments - 7What are the Seven Commandments that contains all the principle of Animalism?1)Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy
2)Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend
3)No animal shall wear clothes
4)No animal shall sleep in a bed
5)No animal shall drink alcohol
6)No animal shall kill any other animal
7)All animals are equal - 8What happened to the milk?It is time to go out to bring in the harvest, but the cows have to be milked first. The other animals wonder what will happen to the milk, which looks delicious, but it has disappeared by the time they come back from the hayfield in the evening. Of course, the reader understands that the milk has been drunk by the pigs and we perhaps begin to suspect the direction in which their superior intelligence will take them.
- 9Key quotes Chapter 2:"could turn black into white".
Remember: the seven commanders could be all used as a quote. - 10Chapter 3The animals are very enthusiastic about getting the harvest in. They all work with a new enthusiasm, now they are working for themselves, but the carthorse, Boxer, is extraordinary in what he accomplishes.
- 11Important Character in chapter 2?Benjamin, the donkey. It becomes apparent that Benjamin is wise and aware of what is really going on, long before the other animals. All he will say, however, is: "Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey."
- 12reading and writer?Reading seems to represent the kind of intelligence that the pigs have, and, of course, the power that such a skill gives them. As Orwell describes how far the different animals could get in their learning, we begin to realise how vulnerable Boxer and his four letters are, despite his great strength.
- 13Two other important things emerge in this chapter:Napoleon has been occupying himself, looking after the nine puppies that were born soon after the harvest. He keeps them away from the other animals.
We learn that the cows' milk is being mixed with the pigs' mash. We are told by Squealer that the reason for this is that it is necessary for the success of the pigs' brainwork. - 14Key Quote for Chapter 3:“...everyone worked according to his capacity”
• “FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD” - 15Chapter 4While Snowball and Napoleon send out the pigeons to spread the word of the Rebellion, Mr Jones meets with Pilkington and Frederick from neighbouring farms, who agree to help him recapture the farm. They help him as much for themselves as anything else as they do not want the Rebellion to spread.
Early in October, what becomes known as the Battle of the Cowshed takes place, when Jones and the other humans try to take back the farm. The animals are victorious, thanks largely to Snowball's strategy and Boxer's strength.
Boxer's admirable characteristics are again built up in this chapter: he shows himself as strong, courageous and compassionate when he mourns the boy he thinks he has killed. He and Snowball are awarded "Animal Hero First Class" after the battle. This and the decision to fire the gun on the anniversaries of the battle and the original Rebellion are ironic indicators that the animals see success as marked by behaving in the same way as their human master. - 16Key Quote for Chapter 4:“Now if there was one thing the animals were certain
of, is that they did not want Jones back.” - 17Chapter 5Discovery by Clover that Mollie, the "foolish, pretty white mare", as she is described in Chapter 1, is betraying the other animals by accepting gifts from a man. Three days later she leaves the farm and is reported by the pigeons to be living in the old style.
Snowball has many ideas for improvements, including a very grand plan for a windmill to provide electricity. This is so challenging a project that the animals are uncertain about it. - 18More summers chapter 5b
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- 20Squealer is sent round in his role as the propaganda man to silence the objections. He tells the animals:Snowball is little more than a criminal
the animals should be grateful that .
Comrade Napoleon is prepared to do so much work on their behalf.
Snowball's alleged bravery at the Battle of the Cowshed is undermined. - 21What was Snowball's most powerful argument?Snowball's most powerful argument had been to remind the other animals that they don't want Jones back. Boxer adopts the slogan "Napoleon is always right" to go with his previous motto of "I will work harder."
- 22The meetingsThe regular meetings now reinforce the pigs' role as leaders. Three weeks after Snowball was driven out it is announced that the windmill is to be built after all. Squealer's explanation for this is that Napoleon's opposition to the windmill had been tactical, in order to defeat Snowball. Nobody is inclined to argue with Squealer when his persuasive words are accompanied by the growls of three dogs escorting him.
- 23Chapter 6This chapter is all about how the pigs, under Napoleon, change the rules of Animal farm to suit themselves. The animals work hard: "Like slaves" is how Orwell ironically describes them. However, in August it is announced that there will now be work on Sundays as well, something that had initially been abolished.
The work on the windmill was harder than expected since the animals had to drop the large stones from the top of the quarry to break them, before they could make use of them, and this involved dragging them uphill. It would have been impossible without Boxer's enormous strength. - 24What did Napoleon Announces?It gradually emerges that Animal Farm is not self-sufficient and Napoleon announces that he will engage in trade on their behalf with a solicitor called Mr Whymper. The hens are told it will be a privilege to give up their eggs for this purpose. This shocks the animals but they are assured by Squealer that they must have dreamt the idea that trading with humans was banned. There is a strange consequence of this trading, however. The humans start to accept Animal Farm a little more. They still expect the windmill to fail but there is respect for the way that the animals are running the farm, and people stop supporting Mr Jones and actually start to call the farm 'Animal Farm'.
- 25The change of the Commandment?"No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets". Squealer is again out there with his explanation, this time because the pigs need the comfort of the beds to help with all the brainwork that they do. The animals are so gullible that they even accept it when it is announced that the pigs are going to get up an hour later than the other animals.
- 26The windmillPride in the windmill is very important to the animals, but one morning in November, after a storm the night before, the animals wake up to find that the half-finished windmill has been destroyed.
- 27Who do they blame for the destroy of windmill?Obviously the windmill is the victim of a bad storm, but the pigs tell the other animals that it is Snowball who is to blame and that he had come in the night and destroyed the windmill.
- 28Key Quote Chapter 6:"No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets"
- 29Chapter 7:In bleak wintry conditions, the animals set about the rebuilding of the windmill. When food starts to run short, Napoleon's first concern is to conceal this from the humans, which he does by deceiving Mr Whymper into thinking that stocks of grain and meal on the farm are plentiful.
However, eventually it becomes clear that Napoleon will have to purchase more food and he orders the hens to give up their eggs to be sold. They are just about to hatch them and consider this murder. They rebel by laying their eggs from the rafters so they smash, but after five days of protest they are starved into submission by Napoleon and his dogs. Nine hens die during the rebellion and their deaths are covered up by the pigs. - 30What does Boxer Believe?Despite everything, Boxer still believes that the solution is to work harder. Clover and the other animals are numbed by the horror of what has happened. Clover believes that they are still better off than they were under Jones, and it is this, of course, that makes Napoleon's tyranny possible. But the horror of animals killing other animals is deeply wrong. She and the others start to sing "Beasts of England" to comfort themselves, but are told by Squealer that the fervent anthem has been replaced by the more bland "Animal Farm, Animal Farm, Never through me shalt thou come to harm", marking the end of their true rebellion.
- 31Chapter 8
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