Introduction by Jayath Kaushal Paurana and Siya

Jayath - Animal Farm is a short novel by George Orwell. It was written during World War
II and published in 1945. It is about a group of farm animals who rebel against their farmer. They hope to
create a place where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. In the end, however, they are betrayed, and
the farm ends up as bad it was before.
Siya - The story is an allegory, meaning that the author wanted it to represent real life events. It is one of the
most famous allegories about political events. It is based on Joseph Stalin's betrayal of the Russian
Revolution. There are many characters in the book that are based on real people. They are grouped
into pigs, horses, humans and other animals.
Scene 1

Narrator 1 - Saumya: There used to be a man named Mr. Jones who owned the Manor farm. But he was
careless and abusive to the animals. All he ever wanted to do was drink or sleep, being an alcoholic. The
animals as expected were hungry and frustrated and one such night, when Mr. Jones was fast asleep, the
sagacious pig named Old Major called for a meeting.

Old Major - Hriday: Now, comrades. Listen. I have something to tell you. I have a message for you all.
Our lives are miserable, we work in fields, get beat by sticks and don't get food for days. That is the truth.
But why are our lives so miserable? The answer is Man. Man makes us work. Man takes all our produce.
Man is the only creature that takes without giving.Man is our enemy. Revolution! The revolution must
come. We will be rich, free and equal.

Animals (collective) (Aryan M, Aryan Yadav, Gautam, Vikas): Rich, free and equal!? All animals are
equal (loudly in a cheer form)

Old Major: Now, many years ago when I was a little pig, my mother sang me a song. I had forgotten about
it, but last night, I had a dream about it. Listen and learn, comrades *old major sings*

*Amish plays guitar*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9s-5mTLtq0

Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland, Beasts of land, and sea and skies.

Hear the hoof beats of tomorrow, see the golden future rise.

Now the day of beasts is coming, tyrant man shall lose his throne,

And the shining fields of England shall be ruled by beasts alone.

(The animals join in)

Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland, Beasts of land, and sea and skies.

Hear the hoofbeats of tomorrow, see the golden future rise.

Now the day of beasts is coming, tyrant man shall lose his throne,

And the shining fields of England shall be ruled by beasts alone.

Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, now!

Narrator 2 Ansh Singh(podium) - : Three days later old Major passed away in his sleep, but the idea he
left was about to take on a radical form. Later on, that day, Snowball the pig addressed the animals.
Snowball Aryaveer:(Right entry) Without Man, our produce will be our own. Without Man we animals
will be rich. Without Man we animals will be free and equal. What can we do? Work comrades, work. Night
and day, day and night. We do work now, we work very hard, but we must work for the Revolution.

Scene 2: The Revolt

(Next day)

Dhruv – Napoleon (pig): (Singing) who takes our mother, father, brothers, sisters and friends away from
us? Man, powerful man, cruel man!”

Narrator 1 Saumya(podium): Just at that moment Mr. Jones woke up. He was drunk and very angry at all
the noise the animals were making.

Mr. Jones Sanat : What’s going on here? What’s all this noise on my farm? Be quiet you stupid animals.
Shut up! (He bursts into the barn disturbed by all the noise and shoots his shotgun into the air. The animals
in their anger and frustration turn on Jones. (They chase him off the farm.)

Napoleon Dhruv: Bravo, everyone. Long live the revolution!

Animals (collective) (Kritak, Navya Javvaji): Long live the revolution!

Snowball: It’s wonderful. I don’t want to ruin the party, but what now? Jones has gone away. What do we
do now?

Squealer Kunal: Listen to comrade Napoleon. He knows everything.

Napoleon: Comrades. We are free from the cruel man, now we must prosper with health and wealth.

Boxer Arsh Thakur: Yes, but without Mr. Jones who will run the farm?

Napoleon: We will run the farm. Weren’t you listening, comrade Boxer?

Boxer: We will run Manor Farm? But who will be our leader? We must have a leader.

Squealer: We will hold elections. We must have one leader. It’s a democracy now!

Let’s vote!

Squealer: I propose comrade Napoleon as leader

Snowball: But. .

Napoleon: Very well. Do you have a problem with that, Comrade Snowball?

Snowball: (They all look at him.) No, no problem.All those in favor of Napoleon for leader say “Aye”.

Animals (Aarti, Ritisha): Aye.

Napoleon: Good, then it is decided, by absolute majority. Thank you for voting for me, comrades. I am a
practical pig, a pig of few words, so I’ll work hard and say little. (He takes out a prepared speech.) These are
my election promises. I promise to be just and to be fair. I promise to treat everyone equally and above all I
promise to be honest.

Squealer: With Comrade Napoleon as our leader we will all run Manor Farm.
Napoleon: No! From now this is animal farm, where animals rule and humans perish!Comrade Squealer,
would you mind? (Squealer changes the Manor Farm sign to Animal Farm).

Squealer: There, Animal Farm! *changes sign* long live Napoleon!

Animals (collective) (Tanishka Kumari, Tanishka Singh): Long live Napoleon!

Napoleon: Now we will go into the house and take back what is rightfully ours!

Narrator 1 Saumya: The animals went into the house and saw all the things that Man had stolen from
them.

Scene 3: The Rules

Squealer: Now comrades, to work. We must learn the 7 commandments. These seven commandments are
the basic rules of Animalism.

Boxer: Animalism?

Squealer: Yes, comrade, Animalism. Napoleon has invented the name for our new system. Our new system
based on the new rules. Long live Animalism!

Animals: Long live Animalism!

Squealer:

One. Whatever goes on two legs is an enemy.

Two. Whatever goes on four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

Three. Animals shall never wear clothes.

Four. Animals shall never sleep in a bed.

Five. Animals shall never drink alcohol.

Six. Animals shall never kill any other animal.

Seven. All animals are equal.

Napoleon: These are the inalienable laws of Animal Farm. These laws must never be changed or broken.

Squealer: And we also have a new flag, The Hoof and Horn. *shows the flag*

Scene 4: To Work

Napoleon: Now, comrades, to work! To the hayfield! Let’s see if we can get the harvest in quick,

quicker than Jones did.

Narrator (Tisya): All through the day, the animals worked except the pigs, they were tired but happy.
Boxer worked the hardest. When the animals went back to the farm in the evening, the milk had disappeared
from the bucket. Every day it disappeared.
Boxer: Ooh, I’m so tired and hungry after all that work. I don’t see the milk. Have you pigs drunk all the
milk?! That is not fair.

Squealer: oops, comrade.*giggles* I guess life isn’t fair. Anyways, I hope you don’t think we drank milk
because we like. No sir! It tastes like feet but being the brains for the survival of this farm, we pigs need
milk. Its scientifically proven.

Napoleon:Also, Jones the imbecile would be back!Do you want to be hit by Jones’s stick?

Snowball:No! never!

Squealer:*pushes snowball aside* We the pigs, well not all three of us *looks at audience and says
snowball and makes a nauseas mannerism* are precocious. We have been learning how to read and write,
and we will teach you too. For the sake of prosperity.

Narrator (Pankhudi): After the rather passive argument, Napoleon put the farm animals to work. He
wanted to create a windmill. Napoleon now crazy with power, wanted to make the animals work for 60
hours a week, including on Sundays. They banned the concept of voting and wanted to start a business with
man. This as expected brought a revolt amongst the animals.

Snowball: If we work so much, we will die! We didn’t decide on y’all being the decision makers. The hens
too don’t want to give up their eggs! Have mercy!

Hens (Ritisha, Liza): Yes! Not our eggs!

Squealer: Mercy is for the week you fool. As for the hens, Comrade Napoleon, if you may.

Napoleon: gladly. *shoots the hens* We are putting up the new commandments. If you don’t follow them,
you won’t be alive to see the next day’s sun. *points to ferocious dogs, and then squealer and him leave*

Snowball: (Sighs). “Don’t touch money. Don’t do business with Man.” Don’t they remember? *leaves*

Narrator 3 (Shreya Sreedhar): So, the pigs started doing business with Mr. Pilkington of the Pinch field
farm. Pilkington came to the farm to often do business with Napoleon. Napoleon sold him the hen’s eggs
and Pilkington gave him money.

Pilkington Pratim: (Napoleon gives him the eggs) It’s a pleasure doing business with you Mr. Napoleon,
sir.

Narrator 4 Sarbojit: With the money pigs earned, instead of buying tools they bought alcohol.A few days
later other animals noticed something uncanny. They broke all commandments, Squealer was drunk, the
pigs slept in beds, and they were friends with a man.

Napoleon: Traitor. Object once more, and you will be killed like the hens. I think that’s now. let’s have a
drink Squealer! *leave*

Boxer: He’s killed the hens; he’s threatening to kill us. Wasn’t there a commandment that said, “Animals
shall never kill any other animal.”?

Snowball:Yes, “Animals shall never kill any other animal… (They turn to read the board)…without cause.”

Narrator 3 Shreya: The animals give up and go back to work. Soon enough, boxer who worked the
hardest, collapses, exhausted and starving, sacrificing his life to animal farm.

Scene 5:
Animals (collective) (Tanishka Kumari, Tanishka Singh, Vanisha, Vanshika): Why is Squealer running
around like a maniac??

Clover Aditya/Aniruddha: He is drunk. But wasn't there a commandment about this?? *Reads the
commandments* No animal should drink alcohol...In excess.

Snowball: We voted for a fair and honest leader for our revolution. But what is happening now is by no
means fair. I remember a quote by Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, "Nothing is so painful to a mind as
a great and sudden change."

Narrator (Kaivalya): The animals finally started doubting their own decision of making Napoleon, their
leader.

Squealer: From now on singing is prohibited. The revolution is over anyways.

Snowball: Why do you say the revolution has ended? Where is the three-day week? Where is the food and
the riches?

Napoleon: Show them the figures, Squealer!

Squealer: (Taking out the graphs) Yes, we are much better off than with Jones. Look, productivity is up
35%, creativity is up by 22%, longevity is up by 50%, and therefore you are 100% more free, rich and equal!

Squealer: There’s only one commandment now. *Reading* “All animals are equal, but some are more
equal than others."

Animals (Tanishka Kumari, Tanishka Singh): We might be stupid compared to you intelligent pigs...But
we understand you have gone too far.You even changed the 7 commandments.

Narrator (Kaivalya): Just at that moment Pilkington came to congratulate Napoleon on his success.

Pilkington: Hello, Mr. Napoleon. Congratulations! You have the most profitable farm in England. What’s
your secret?

Napoleon: Simple. More profit for fewer people and more power in fewer hands which impacts in more
control of beast and human.

Pilkington: Ladies and gentlemen, I propose a toast to Animal Farm.

Napoleon: No, not to Animal Farm, a more appropriate name is Manor Farm. (Squealer changes the sign)

Narrator (Vinayak): Soon all the pigs and humans go in the house to celebrate and make merry but after
some time the animals hear loud noises coming from the house. And this is what they see…

Napoleon: You are a cruel person Pilking-- *tries to push him*

Pilkington:No, you are a liar and a filthy animal. *slaps napoleon*

Narrator (Vinayak): The animals looked from pig to man and from man to pig. But it was impossible to
tell which was which.

(Group of students analyzing the novel)

(Intro) Ananya(Left) - In the novel, Snowball genuinely works for the good of fellow-animals and devises
plans to help them achieve their vision of an egalitarian utopia only to be chased away by Napoleon and his
dogs. Not one to rest content, Napoleon spreads canards about how Snowball was devilishly sabotaging the
animals’ efforts to improve the farm.

Speaker 1 Navya Rao(Left) – Don’t you think that this illustration of the novel perfectly fits into the
current political scenario in Indian democracy?

Speaker 2 Lavanya(Left) – That’s what I precisely feel. In the name of democracy, a ruling party ascribes
to itself divine sanctity. Voices of the political opposition and civil society are stifled. Dissent is attacked
and throttled. Television-sponsored shouting matches day in and day out trivialize the very purpose of the
debate.

Speaker 3 Shaurya Singh(Left)- Even genuine questions are branded as political conspiracies to sabotage
persistent developmental efforts. Thus this animal farm sentiment is used to showcase political punishment
instead of welcoming constructive opposition. In fact, a true democratic approach would help the country to
prosper in the long run and win the hearts of millions of people.

Speaker 4 Smriti(Right) - Democracy is an interaction of thoughts and assimilation of ideas. It’s a

confluence of political viewpoints. The government of the day is not an absolute authority. It’s only a trustee
for that period for which it is voted to power. Ruling politicians often use information and statistics to
suggest that life is getting better and better. Nothing wrong in doing so, but the problem is that they are
impervious to any other independent information.

Speaker 5 Arhan(Right) - Like Napoleon of Animal Farm, leaders have a dubious reputation for getting
their own way. Political parties, and even the prevailing political landscape, are so organized to meet this
purpose of serving the leader. Parties employ proven orators resembling the character Squealer of the
Animal Farm. They often act as messengers of their master using every opportunity for a verbal assault.

Speaker 6 Soham(Right) – In the end, I want to conclude that political power is always the same, whoever
has it and whatever ideology is used to justify it. Powerful people can be cruel and selfish whether they’re
pigs or humans, Communists or capitalists. The ending doesn’t offer much hope for a workable political
system with true equality for all. Rather, the ending suggests that the corrupting nature of power dooms all
political systems to failure.

Tech team – Rishit, Shalik, Shaan, Bhavik

Props - Vinayak