Animal Farm

Animal Farm

1. Chapter 1

   • Old Major suggests that they have an uprising against the humans and run the farm themselves
     • Gives them rules to live by
       • 'Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend'
       • 'we must not come to resemble him.' 'do not adopt his vices.'
       • 'No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade.'
       • 'All the habits of Man are evil. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.'
   • all the animals sing "Beasts of England,"
     • Helps show equality
     • 'Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown'
       • Foreshadowing; Napoleon became a tryant and (hu)man

2. Chapter 2

   • Old Major Dies
     • was predicted
   • Pigs stat to rule since they are the 'smartest' of the animals
     • 'All Animals are Equal'
   • Animal's rebel and win against Jones
     • They were not fed, and the cows were not milked and the animals had enough...so they rebeled
       • 'At last they could stand it no longer'
   • Made the 7 Commandments
     • 'Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy'
     • 'Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend'
     • 'No animal shall sleep in a bed'
     • 'No animal shall kill any other animal'
     • 'No animal shall wear clothes'
     • 'No animal shall drink alcohol'
     • 'All animals are equal'

3. Chapter 3

   • The animals are working...and the pigs supervise
     • The pigs don't ever work
   • The pigs exploit the animals
     • Take the apples and milk...but don't even like milk
       • 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself.'
     • Like Jones did but not to the same extent
   • Took 9 puppies away form their mothers
     • 'Napoleon took them away from their mothers, saying that he would make himself responsible for their education.'

4. Chaper 4

   • There was an attack on Animal Farm but it was prepeared for by snowball and dispelled
     • 'Snowball, who had studied an old book of Julius Caesar's campaigns which he had found in the farmhouse'
   • Snowball got/gave himself the title 'Animal Hero, First Class

5. Chapter 6

   • 'All that year the animals worked like slaves'
     • Just like they did in Jones' day
   • The Pigs move into the Farmhouse
     • Even though no-one is meant to go in there
     • 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,"'
       • The changed Commandment
   • Began to start using trade
     • Even thought they are not meant to

6. Chapter 5

   • Napoleon and Snowball start fighing to see who is a better candidate to be the leader. They put it ot a vote
     • Napoleon is better at campaining but Snowball is better at giving speeches
       • 'decide all questions of farm policy, though their decisions had to be ratified by a majority vote.'
   • Snowball is chased out by Napoleon and the 9 puppies (no dogs)
     • Napoleon won by default
   • Napoleon stopped the meetings
     • Got away with it thanks to Squealer's persuation
       • 'They were unnecessary, he said, and wasted time. In future all questions relating to the working of the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs, presided over by himself.'
         • Is able to keep control of the animals while distancing himself from them