What Are The Major Changes That Begin To Occur In Animal Farm?

One night, all the animals of Mr. Jones’ farm, gather together in the barn to listen to Old Major, the pig, tell them about a dream he had, in which no animal had to live under the reign of human owners which would happen after a large rebellion against the people that treated them as slaves. After his death, which occurred only three nights after that meeting, the rest of the animals spent months working on plans to make the rebellion that Old Major had spoken of, into a reality. In the beginning the pigs, particularly Snowball and Napoleon, which had naturally become the leaders, faced difficulties convincing the other animals that this was the right thing to do.

Shortly after the Revolution, Snowball comes up with the plan to construct a windmill to make the lives of the inhabitants of Animal Farm easier. Napoleon hides in the shadows per se until the puppies that he has taken and trained are old enough to act as a police force. Once they are old enough, Napoleon has the dogs drive Snowball off the farm. He then takes credit for the idea of the windmill and proceeds to claim that he, not Snowball, won the award at the Battle of Cowshed. Napoleon then informs the animals that Snowball was an enemy and was a threat to Animal Farm. The animals are swayed by his propaganda and are fearful of his police dogs; this is what keeps him in power.

Snowballs weaknesses: Although Snowball is intelligent and has great support for social improvement, he does have his weaknesses that become a liability to Animal Farm. One of these weaknesses is that he does not completely plan objectives out. For example, he never specified how exactly they would be able to make or come in contact with certain components for the windmill to be built, such as cables and dynamos. This would

Napoleon has wanted power over the farm for awhile and will do anything to keep it. He takes Jessie and Bluebells newborn puppies and trains them for the main aspect of his fear campaign. He teaches them to do what is right for the farm and to only think about the Animal Farm’s future. He uses the puppies to eliminate his nemesis. Snowball comes up with the idea for a windmill on the farm, Napoleon opposes it and uses his trained dogs to chase Snowball off the farm. With Snowball gone, Napoleon declares himself the ruler of the farm. “They dashed straight for Snowball… he slipped through the fence and was seen no more. (Orwell, pg. 53 chap. 5).”

The livestock are naive, because they are uneducated. They are uneducated, because the pigs limit the amount of information that is shared with them. The horse, Boxer, is so brainwashed by Napoleon that he make the phrase “Napoleon is always right” his motto. Several examples of the animals’ uneducation would be in the following sentences. “‘That was part of the arrangement!’ cried Squealer. ‘Jones shot only grazed him! I could show you this in his own writing, if you could read.’” (Orwell, 81). This is Squealer’s attempt to make the animals disloyal to Snowball. He claims he has proof of betrayal, but conveniently, none of the animals are able to vouch for this. Another example is in this paragraph:“The commandment read, ‘No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.’ Somehow or another, the last two words had slipped out of the animals’ memory.” (Orwell, 91). You see here that the undereducation of the animals leads them to think that they were just wrong and that Napoleon and Squealer had been right all along.

The rise and fall of Lenin by Stalin is portrayed in Napoleon’s actions toward Snowball. Even though Lenin had some good intentions towards the people of Europe he was still slightly corrupt and susceptible to being overthrown. Stalin took advantage of this. He soon took his position and began his corrupt rule with the people tricked into believing he was a better leader and had the peoples’ issues at heart. After the attack on Jones, (The Czar) Snowball becomes the leader and changes the name of Manor farm to Animal Farm, which represents the good of the change that has been made. Snowball portrays Lenin who is the first leader of Russia to rule under the new doctrine of communism. Snowball comes up with many great ideas about how to make animal farm prosper even though he is a little corrupt as well. One of the ideas is the construction of a windmill to improve the efficiency. Napoleon, representing Stalin, opposes the idea and after betraying Snowball by convincing the other animals that he is a spy, has him run off of the farm by the dogs that represent the KGB. Napoleon puts the animals hard to work building the very same windmill he opposed at first. This should have given him away as a corrupt leader in the beginning.

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Perhaps the most significant one of all was Napoleon throwing out the second most powerful animal on the farm, simply because he was a threat to his own reign. The animals were so engrossed by Napoleon that they fully supported the termination of Snowball, solely for the reasons given to them via Napoleon. “Napoleon produced his schemes of his own, but said quietly that snowball would come to nothing.” (54). At such an early point after the pigs power was established, Napoleon had already started to create a divide between Snowball and himself. When he told the other animals how horrible for the farm Snowball supposedly is, the farm would start to trust him more and therefore depend on his more.While gaining the animals trust more, he simultaneously gained more power for himself, for with Snowball gone all the power he had would now be his. “He had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a maneuver to get rid of Snowball…Now that Snowball was out of the way, the plan could go forward without his interference.”(58). Napoleon is willing to do anything to gain and maintain his own power, regardless of how it is done and who will be effected by it. As shown by this windmill incident, Napoleon will use any instance to further manipulate the other animals, just to gain even one more sliver of much desired

Built on Leon Trotsky, Snowball is one if the 2 pigs who develop as leaders of the animals after Old Major dies. Both, Trotsky and Snowball’s similarities are

According to page 13 it states, “...some of the animals believed in Sugarcandy Mountain, and the pigs had to argue very hard to persuade them that there was no such place.” This results in the animals becoming confused as to which side they should agree to, which then causes the animals to become distracted. On page 80 it states, “...the animal’s lives were full of work and never ending work, this caused some of them to believe that Sugarcandy Mountain is real and a happy place.” This shows that because of the situation the animals are in now, they feel the need to believe everything Moses says about Sugarcandy Mountain is true. Despite the effort, the pigs put in trying to derail the idea that what Moses says is true, it doesn’t really work because the animals believe that they can receive something better than what they are getting

Napoleon is an opportunitist. When he realizes that he can turn a situation, whether good or bad, to his advantage, he does so. For example, when the windmill topples, he tells that that Snowball is the cause and turns the animals against him. From then on he makes Snowball a scapegoat. Whenever something goes wrong, it is because of Snowball. This makes the animals feel that they are lucky to have Napoleon instead. It is also an easy way out as it keeps the animals from finding out where the blame really lies. This secures Napoleon's leadership position as the he will not be blamed for anything wrong and creates the illusion that Napoleon's ruling is perfect, making him indispensable. In the case of the timber, he uses Snowball to back up his decision. Since the animals are against him, the party he is not selling to will have Snowball residing there. This causes the animals to support his decision.

2) Snowball and Napoleon are in constant disagreement, and the other animals begin to take sides.

The animals worked day and night to make Animal Farm the best it could be. The animals would not work on Sundays. Sunday was the only day that they slept in, and have a Sunday meeting. At Sunday meetings, the work for the coming week was planned out and resolutions were put forward and debated. Napoleon and Snowball were the only animals to bring forward new resolutions. The other animals only voted, since they could not think of any resolutions of their own. In a short period of time, Napoleon and Snowball were becoming rivals. The competition between the two pigs, led to Snowball being chased off the farm by Napoleon’s dogs, and Napoleon becoming the leader. Napoleon began giving out orders and demands out to the other animals. The animals were becoming slaves, but did not realize it because of their low intelligence and stupidity. They did not have the full ability to understand what exactly what was happening on the farm. The pigs were getting everything. Milk, food, hot and cold water, and much more. A few animals did question at one point about what had happened to all the milk and apples. Squealer, who was Napoleon’s partner, was able to explain why this was so. “Milk and apples contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brain-workers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. It is for your sake that we drink that milk, and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if

The animals are working much more than what they did, even under the rule of Jones. They have little food and work in the harsh elements. When the animals took over the farm, each animal had to contribute to keep it going, now Napoleon and his pigs stay housed in the barn and are rarely seen, especially Napoleon. He now has a personal speaker that goes and talks to the animals when they begin to question Napoleon. As Squealer said, “Our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, has stated categorically, comrade, that Snowball was Jones’ agent from the very beginning.” (Orwell 82) Not only is Napoleon breaking their Seven Commandments, he changes them to keep himself from being questioned by the animals when he breaks them. Every time Squealer is reassuring the animals that Napoleon is a great leader, it is contradicting, especially when he says, “ Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal.” Napoleon hosts a meeting and animals come forth

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