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Chapter 8 Animal Farm

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The story starts out with a pig named Old Major who had had a dream and wanted to tell the entire farm. He talked about a world where animals lived free from the humans' tyranny and sings them a song named "Beasts of England". Later he dies and two pigs coined the term Animalism. The farm animals resolved to overthrow their owner, Jones. Two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball become the head of the farm and create seven commandments that all animals must abide by. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal. The rest of the animals quickly …show more content…

Thankfully, Snowball was able to counteract their guns with tactics that led them to win the engagement with one casualty on their side. Snowball commences drawing plans of a windmill. He states that it will decrease work time and increase the comfortableness of the barn. Napoleon vividly disagrees with him declaring that it will leave less time to tend the fields. When Snowball asks the animals to vote, Napoleon releases a pack of dogs that pursue Snowball out of the farm and he is never seen again. Napoleon then declared that the windmill idea was originally his idea and Snowball had stolen it from him. For the entirety of the novel, Snowball is used as the scapegoat and is blamed for all of the farms' later …show more content…

All of the animals that brought themselves in were killed by Napoleons' dogs. Napoleon and the rest of the pig's move into Jones house and begin to live and sleep there. Squealer proclaims that this is not contradicting the commandments because they are not using sheets. The animals complete the windmill and a short time afterward, Napoleon sells lumber to his neighbor Fredrick. Fredrick paid for the lumber with forged bank notes. Meanwhile, Fredrick prepared for battle and him and a group of men enter Animal Farm and hold off the animals long enough to blow up the windmill. The animals, enraged, set off to do battle with the men and drive them off of their

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The old pig sparks rebellion against the Mr. Jones due to their beliefs that humans are a threat as they use the animals for their own consumption and benefit. As time passes reframing is also shown in chapter 5 when Napoleon turns his back on Snowball because of their constant disagreements. After the dogs successfully chased off Snowball, Squealer states that Snowball was a traitor and in reality no better than a criminal; lying for the benefit of Napoleon. When the windmill is approved, in private Squealer once more chimes in on the redirecting, sharing to the other animals that the windmill was Napoleon's idea all along, and Snowball stole it. Supposedly Napoleon only seemed to oppose the idea to get rid of Snowball; which was in fact

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Napoleon and Snowball were the main characters to achieve victory in the war, therefore, they were named as "Animal Hero, First Degree. " Burying the weapon was symbolic of having won the battle and every anniversary he shot himself into the sky using that pistol to remember his victory. 1. She escapes to achieve her desire to be cared for by humans 2. Snowball wanted the construction of the windmill although Napoleon detested the idea completely, in the text, this was a representation of communism.

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Snowball was run out of the farm and made seem a horrible and untrustworthy leader to make Napoleon seem better and more “on top”. At times, Napoleon even gave himself more superior titles like “our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, Father of all Animals, Terror of Mankind, Protector of the Sheep-fold, Ducklings’ Friend, and the like…. It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune.”. Napoleon made every good thing that happened his fault but any mistake, or bad thing that happened, was at the fault of Snowball, although he was run off of the

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Once the humans have been defeated, the animals must never adopt any of their habits, they must not live in a house, sleep in a bed, wear

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Four legs good two legs better! For a minute or two they stood gazing at the tarred wall with its white lettering their was nothing there now except a single commandment It ran all animals are equal but some are more equal than others. ”(Document A). The pig changed the commandments till there was only one commandment left, Napoleon bent and changed the rules at his will to stay in

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Being one of the intelligent animals on the farm, they trust Napoleon, having faith that he will direct the farm in a civilized way. Napoleon gains a large amount of power by having communication outside of the Farm, with people and other animals. He also gains trust by following the rules in the beginning. The narrator writes, “Every day, Snowball and Napoleon sent out flights of pigeons whose instructions were to mingle with the animals on neighbouring farms, tell them” (Orwell, 16). This earns the animals trust because they believe that Napoleon is trustworthy and spreading good news about the

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The upperclass animals were treated and fed properly after the rebellion. Napoleon and Snowball began as the leaders of the farm, with Snowball having most of the power. Snowball and Napoleon could never get along or agree upon anything, especially building the windmill. Napoleon came to the conclusion that he wanted to be the boss so bad he abolished Snowball from the farm. Behind Napoleon and Snowball, before he was abolished from the farm, on the totem pole was the rest of the pigs.

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Napoleon runs off snowball, kills many of the animals by the use of his vicious dogs, and changes the commandments to fit his wants. The illiterate animals are oblivious to all of the changes being made and continue to work hard to obtain the common goal; build the windmill. Even when it is blown up to pieces, the animals continue to build. This causes extremely long work hours, a lack of food, and famine to all of the animals on the farm.

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At the beginning of the novel, it can be observed that Napoleon and Snowball work together closely and collaboratively discuss ideas for the farm. As Napoleon becomes more influential and powerful, he gradually begins to recognise Snowball as a dangerous rival. Their disagreements culminate with a dispute over whether to develop a windmill on the farm. Snowball argues it is essential to the progress of the farm, whilst Napoleon believes it is a waste of time and resources. Fed up with Snowball’s unwavering competition and hindrance, Napoleon employs the scare tactic of the dogs to chase Snowball off the farm.

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In Animals Farm, there is a pig who’s name Napoleon. This character did not contributed to the society with his actions. In effect, he did not respect the concept of “Animalism” which is the equality of all the animals. He did many actions that broke this conception during the entire story. At the beginning, Napoleon, take the farm with Snowball when the farmer, Mr. Jones, left.

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At first the windmill was merely an idea that snowball had, that would make life easier for all the animals after the hard work of building it. This “idea” symbolized the hope the citizens of the Soviet Union had for their country. As he did all of Snowball’s opinions, Napoleon soon opposed the windmill. They decided to take it to a vote so all the animals gathered together to have

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Nine hens died during the rebellion. In the meantime Napoleon begins deciding whether to sell some wood the farm possesses to either Pinchfield farm (run by Mr. Frederick), or Foxwood farm (run by Mr. Pilkington). It is later revealed that Snowball had been roaming the farm at night, sabotaging the farm, and regardless of what problem there is in the farm, it is suddenly attributed to Snowball. At this Napoleon and the dogs begin security inspections of the farm. Squealer later announces to the farm that Snowball was recently revealed to have been allied to Frederick of Pinchfield, and that a plot has been found, indicating an imminent attack.

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After the windmill is destroyed, Napoleon blames Snowball by saying that he is the traitor who is trying "to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion” (82). Napoleon’s strong desire to keep power drives him to blame Snowball for the destruction of the windmill to make him look good, so he would not be blamed for all the destructions and injuries that occur within the Farm. This impels the animals to assume that Snowball is the victim and consequently the animals would rely on Napoleon to keep Snowball away for their protection. Squealer swindles the animals saying that the windmill was actually Napoleon’s invention and that his opposition towards it is just a fabrication in order “to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence” (71). Napoleon’s only strategy is to make the animals under the impression that Snowball is the source of all destructions in order to keep his power.

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Secondly, another hate speech appears when the windmill blows down in a gale and the animals are in shock. Napoleon uses this situation to put the blame on Snowball as he said that "Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!" (73) and that “Snowball has done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year."

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They often disagreed on many issues involving the farm until Napoleon expelled Snowball from the farm. However even after the expulsion of Snowball, with the use of persuasive language the pigs still find a way to blame him for any misfortune the farm may encounter. To begin, the pigs blame Snowball for destroying the windmill in which the animals worked soo long to build. “Comrades," he said quietly, ‘do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill?

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