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Animal Farm. The novel, Animal Farm, was written by George Orwell and was published
in 1946. ... One of the major characters in the novel, Animal Farm, is Nepoleon. ...
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Animal Farm
'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine', wrote Orwell in the original blurb for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. His simple and tragic fable has become a world-famous classic of English prose.
The novel begins with a speech of Old Major (an old and wise pig on Manor Farm) who wants animals to revolt against their present, oppressive master. He is the main animal who got the rebellion started even though he died before it actually begun. Led by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, the animals overthrow Mr. Jones, master of Manor Farm. The pigs established themselves as the leaders of the farm. The society that they wanted to make was made up of 7 commandments. After some time, Napoleon and Snowball begin to compete for the top leadership position on Animal Farm. Eventually Napoleon would win, and over time would erase all memories of Snowball. Even though equality was a major motivating factor behind the revolt, the pigs on Animal Farm began to increase power over time, unchallenged by the other animals due to the lack of intelligence defining the rest of Animal Farm and exemplified by loyal Boxer.
Napoleon broke a commandment of talking to humans, and started making trades with them. The more and more the pigs interacted with the humans the more they became like them. They slowly started having two social classes, the pigs and the other animals. Napoleon started becoming greedy and wanted to make more money, so he made the animals work harder and gave them less food. The animals that did not obey Napoleon were executed by dogs. He did this to maintain his power. The pigs started drinking alcohol. Napoleon had been changing the commandments all the time, as soon as he breaks the original commandment he changes it to his own principles. The story ends with pigs and men talking and drinking together...
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