Half #2-Animal Farm

Half #2-Animal Farm

Synopsis

·         On the verge of starvation, Squealer gives orders from Napoleon  that the hens must give up their eggs to make money to buy grain

·         Napoleon makes the animals confess their crimes. There are lots of lies and deception present within the animals. The dogs slaughter the unworthy ones.

·         The abolishment of “Beasts of England”

·         Minimus, the pig poet, creates a new song to be sung every Sunday

·         Another new poem about “Comrade Napoleon” which depicts the feeling of Napoleon as their leader.

·         Battle of the Windmill, Frederick and his men destroy the windmill

·         The pigs find whisky and start drinking. Snowball gets blamed for Napoleon’s hangover

·         A part of the farm is set for the growth of barley and the pigs start making alcohol

·         Boxer overworks himself and collapses. A slaughter house truck picks up Boxer to bring him to his death

·         Benjamin freaks out about the whole situation

·         Pigs start walking on their hind legs. The new chant is taught to the sheep: “Four legs good, two legs better”

·         Benjamin finally reads for Clover. Only one commandment is present

·         The interaction between the pigs and the humans

·         “Animal Farm” is switched back to “Manor Farm”

Characters Introduced

Major is a Middle White boar who dies early in the book. He is a round and static character.

Mr. Jones is a drunk and the owner of “Manor Farm” before it became “Animal Farm”. He is a flat and static character.

Bluebell, Jessie and Pincher are the three dogs. Bluebell and Jessie give birth to nine puppies. They are flat and static characters.

Boxer and Clover are cart-horses. Boxer is a round and static character and Clover is a stout motherly mare who is a flat and static character.

Muriel is the white goat. She is a flat and static character.

Benjamin, the donkey, is the oldest animal on the farm and is a round and dynamic character because it seems that he is the only one who notices the changes on the farm and he tries to save Boxer from the slaughter cart, when throughout the story, it seemed that he didn’t care about anything.

Napoleon is a pig who tries to run the farm and succeeds when Snowball is chased off. He is a round and static character.

Snowball is a pig and disputes with Napoleon. He gets chased off the farm by Napoleon’s trained dogs. He is a round and static character. He is out of the story in the second half.

Mollie is a pretty white mare who loves to chew lumps of sugar. She is a round and static character.

Squealer is the pig who spreads influencing speeches and words to the other animals about what Napoleon says. Squealer also alters “The Seven Commandements”. He is a round and static character.

Minimus is the pig poet of the farm. He is a flat and static character.

Mr. Frederic and Mr. Pilkington are the two neighbouring farmers. They are flat and static characters.

Point of View

The story is told in the point of view of the animals in omniscient third person. As the reader, we get to experience the animals’ thoughts and feelings through their journey and struggles of creating an Animal Republic.

Setting

The story takes place on a farm in England. The setting shows their isolation on the countryside, away from any big cities and how they must fend for themselves and build their own civilization.

Notables about George Orwell’s Style

Orwell uses allusions in the book for some of the characters. Napoleon relates to Hitler and how he gained so much power that no one would try to stop him. Anyone who opposed him was disposed of.

Statement of Themes

The theme for this book would be the power omitted by Napoleon and the naiveness of the animals. The animals try to think that something is wrong, which clearly is, but they can’t get their heads around the fact that Napoleon is taking over. More themes could be the hypocrisy in the story or the corruption in Napoleon’s “government” and how all the animals except the pigs and the dogs suffer.