Animal Farm

SECTION 1 Old Major's Midnight Vision A dying boar teaches the animals to dream of freedom One night, after the farmer Mr.

SECTION 1 Old Major's Midnight Vision A dying boar teaches the animals to dream of freedom One night, after the farmer Mr. Jones 9 stumbles drunkenly to bed, the animals of Manor Farm assemble in the barn to hear Old Major, 7 the farm's most revered boar. At twelve years old and sensing death approaching, Major 7 delivers a speech that reframes their entire existence: humans produce nothing yet take everything — milk, eggs, labor, and finally life itself. He names Man as the sole enemy and lays down principles for a future without human masters: no animal shall tyrannize another, no animal shall adopt human vices, every animal is equal. Then he teaches them a song recovered from a dream — an anthem of liberation that sends the animals into ecstatic chorus. Jones 9 fires his gun into the dark to silence them. Three nights later, Major 7 dies in his sleep. <div

SECTION 2 The Animals Seize Manor Farm Starving and whipped, they drive Jones out in minutes Three pigs — Napoleon, 1 a large fierce boar who gets his way through quiet persistence; Snowball, 2 eloquent and inventive; and Squealer, 4 who can argue black into white — codify Major's 7 vision into a philosophy called Animalism and spread it through secret barn meetings. Meanwhile, Jones 9 sinks deeper into drink and neglect. One Midsummer's Eve he gets so drunk that by the following evening the animals still haven't been fed. A cow breaks open the store-shed door. When Jones 9 and his men charge in with whips, the starving animals attack from every side — kicking, butting, biting — and within minutes chase every human off the property. The animals burn the whips, destroy the halters and nose-rings, rename the place Animal Farm, and inscribe Seven Commandments on the barn wall — the last declaring the equality of every creature on the farm. <div

SECTION 3 Milk Vanishes, Puppies Disappear Squealer justifies every new pig privilege The animals finish the hay harvest in fewer days than Jones 9 ever managed. Boxer, 3 an enormous cart-horse of limited intelligence but limitless devotion, and his companion Clover, 5 a stout motherly mare, throw themselves into the work — Boxer 3 adopting a creed of always working harder, rising before anyone each morning. The pigs perform no physical labor; they direct and supervise. When five buckets of fresh milk appear after the first milking, Napoleon 1 diverts the animals to the hayfield. By evening the milk has vanished — into the pigs' mash. Windfall apples are similarly…