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Old Majors Speech
'Our lives are miserable labourous and short' P. 6
'The Life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth' P. 7
'Remove Man from the scene and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever'
The animals begin to dream and hope for better lives. -
Old Major dies
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The Battle of the Cowshed
The Animals rebel against Jones and his men. -
The Seven Commandments are created
These laws were made for each and every animal to follow, including the pigs.
'They would form an unalterable law by which all the Animal Farm must live for ever.' -
Napoleon takes the puppies away
'... Napoleon took them away from their mothers, saying that he would make himself responsible for their education. He took them up into a loft which could only be reached by a ladder from the harness-room, and there kept them in such seclusion that the rest of the farm soon forgot.' -
Jones and his men attempt to recapture the farm
Jones and his men had come to Animal farm in hope to re capture his farm as he thought that Animals running a farm was stupidity and would not last long. They however were defeated by the animals and chased back out of the farm once again. -
Snowballs plans for the Windmill were fully worked out
Snowball had a brilliant idea which was to create a Windmill that would source the farm energy. He had finally finished mastered his plans and all that was left to do was to build it and so a vote was held. -
Snowball's Expulsion
Snowball is driven out of Animal farm by the vicous dogs (were once puppies) that Napoleon had raised during the debate between Napoleon and Snowball. Many of them would have protested however none of them could find the right arguments and the ones that could such as the pigs silenced by the growling dogs. -
Napolean changes his mind about the Windmill and wants it built.
This confuses that animals however they are either too fearful to question it or can't accumulate any questions or thoughts that would be enough to put Napoleon in a bad position, -
Napolean holds trials
Some of the animals confess things that are not all true however they're found guilty to Napoleon and so he orders his dogs to kill all the animals that he had found guilty.