Animal Farm

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Sometimes the work was hard; the implements

had been designed for human beings and not
for animals, and it was a great drawback that
no animal was able to use any tool that
involved standing on his hind legs. But the pigs
were so clever that they could think of a way
round every difficulty.
Within a few weeks Snowball's plans for the
windmill were fully worked out. The
mechanical details came mostly from three
books which had belonged to Mr. Jones 'One
Thousand Useful Things to Do About the
House', 'Every Man His Own Bricklayer', and
'Electricity for Beginners'. Snowball used as
his study a shed which had once been used for
incubators and had a smooth wooden floor,
suitable for drawing on. He was closeted there
for hours at a time. With his books held open
by a stone, and with a piece of chalk gripped
between the knuckles of his trotter, he would
move rapidly to and fro, drawing in line after
line and uttering little whimpers of excitement.
Gradually the plans grew into a complicated
mass of cranks and cog-wheels, covering more
than half the floor, which the other animals
found completely unintelligible but very
impressive. All of them came to look at
Snowball's drawings at least once a day. Even
the hens and ducks came, and were at pains not
to tread on the chalk marks.
"What victory?" said Boxer. His knees were
bleeding, he had lost a shoe and split his hoof,
and a dozen pellets had lodged themselves in
his hind leg.
"What victory, comrade? Have we not driven
the enemy off our soil the sacred soil of
Animal Farm?"

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Work that was originally designed to be done by
human beings was being carried out by the
animals. The animals were using tools that were
foreign to them and that required them to do
something they dont normally, stand on their hind
legs. The clever pigs found a way around it and
were able to find a way to get it done.
Snowball being one of the most intelligent pigs
was able to make the windmills happen based on a
book he read about being handy around the house.
As he drew out his plans for the windmills the
other animals were amazed because they could
not do anything like that. Snowball is one that
stands out and is using his intelligence to help
everyone on the farm.

Squealer is another intelligent pigs who is good

with his words. He can make one thing seem like
another. Boxer was heavily injured and felt bad as
if he had taken a loss and squealer put his mind
and words to use and convinced Boxer that he had
just taken a victory. It takes a clever one to be able
to make their words so powerful.

"But they have destroyed the windmill. And we

had worked on it for two years!"
"What matter? We will build another windmill.
We will build six windmills if we feel like it.
You do not appreciate, comrade, the mighty
thing that we have done. The enemy was in
occupation of this very ground that we stand
upon. And now thanks to the leadership of
Comrade Napoleon we have won every inch
of it back again!"
"Then we have won back what we had before,"
said Boxer.

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5. Narrator

6. Narrator

"That is our victory," said Squealer.

The pigs did not actually work, but directed
and supervised the others. With their superior
knowledge it was natural that they should
assume the leadership

The birds did not understand Snowball's long

words, but they accepted his explanation, and
all the humbler animals set to work to learn the
new maxim by heart. FOUR LEGS GOOD,
TWO LEGS BAD, was inscribed on the end
wall of the barn, above the Seven
Commandments and in bigger letters
At last the day came when Snowball's plans
were completed. At the Meeting on the
following Sunday the question of whether or
not to begin work on the windmill was to be
put to the vote. When the animals had
assembled in the big barn, Snowball stood up
and, though occasionally interrupted by
bleating from the sheep, set forth his reasons
for advocating the building of the windmill.
Then Napoleon stood up to reply. He said very
quietly that the windmill was nonsense and that
he advised nobody to vote for it, and promptly
sat down again; he had spoken for barely thirty
seconds, and seemed almost indifferent as to
the effect he produced. At this Snowball sprang
to his feet, and shouting down the sheep, who
had begun bleating again, broke into a
passionate appeal in favour of the windmill.
Until now the animals had been about equally
divided in their sympathies, but in a moment
Snowball's eloquence had carried them away.
In glowing sentences he painted a picture of

The pigs saw themselves as the superior animal to

the others since they were the more intelligent
ones of everyone. When it came to leadership on
the farm, the pigs rose to power by themselves
and Snowball uses his cleverness to win over the
animals.
Snowball used a diction that was hard for the
other animals to understand. He spoke using big
words and the slower animals did not know what
he was talking about. He had to summarize in a
short manner what he was saying so the others
could understand.
Snowball used his cleverness and word use to
sway the animals his way. He also developed a
stellar plan that the animals bought into and he
was sure to win their votes. Than Napoleon
stepped in and with the aid of his clever side kick
squealer, they were unsure about how the animals
would vote.

7. Narrator

Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour

was lifted from the animals' backs. His
imagination had now run far beyond chaffcutters and turnip-slicers. Electricity, he said,
could operate threshing machines, ploughs,
harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders,
besides supplying every stall with its own
electric light, hot and cold water, and an
electric heater. By the time he had finished
speaking, there was no doubt as to which way
the vote would go. But just at this moment
Napoleon stood up and, casting a peculiar
sidelong look at Snowball, uttered a highpitched whimper of a kind no one had ever
heard him utter before.
Sometimes the older ones among them racked
their dim memories and tried to determine
whether in the early days of the Rebellion,
when Jones's expulsion was still recent, things
had been better or worse than now. They could
not remember. There was nothing with which
they could compare their present lives: they
had nothing to go upon except Squealer's lists
of figures, which invariably demonstrated that
everything was getting better and better. The
animals found the problem insoluble; in any
case, they had little time for speculating on
such things now. (10.6)

Along with cleverness, comes experience. As no

one was able to recall the moment the older
animals were able to remember. They were also
able to clearly see that they were being treated
differently.

8. Narrator

In spite of the shock that Snowball's expulsion

had given them, the animals were dismayed by
this announcement. Several of them would
have protested if they could have found the
right arguments. Even Boxer was vaguely
troubled. He set his ears back, shook his
forelock several times, and tried hard to
marshal his thoughts; but in the end he could
not think of anything to say. (5.17)

The pigs are definitely smarter than the other

animals and

9. Benjamin

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME

ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS"

The belief that all animals are equal is an

widespread simple belief. But the belief that some
animals are more equal than others is a belief that
takes intelligence to understand.

10. Snowball

Four legs good, two legs bad.