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Fear In George Orwell's Animal Farm

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In chapter five of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, fear becomes a primary component in silencing the animals. Snowball uses his intelligence to design a windmill, speaking above Napoleon. With Snowballs ingenious ideas, comes controversy. Napoleon disagrees with the windmill idea so his followers speak against it, forming a divide in the animals. When finishing his speech about why the windmill should the build, Snowball gets attacked and chased out of the farm by Napoleon’s trained dogs. He uses the vicious dogs to show that he will get what he wants. He instills fear in the animals. When a few young pigs wanted to speak up about the pigs’ committee, the dogs shut them up. The novel says, “Four young porkers in the front row uttered shrill squeals
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