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Posted on: November 8, 2021 at 11:35:55 CT

Old Colonel, a prize-winning boar, gathers the animals of the Chateau Farm for a meeting in the big barn. He tells them of a dream he has had in which all animals live together with no human beings to oppress or control them. He tells the animals that they must work toward such a paradise and teaches them a song called “Beasts of Burden,” in which his dream vision is lyrically described. The animals greet Colonel’s vision with great enthusiasm. When he dies only three nights after the meeting, Four younger pigs—Crewse, Done, Gates and Margerine—formulate his main principles into a philosophy called Animalism. Late one night, the animals manage to defeat the farmer Mr. Jones in a battle, running him off the land. They rename the property Patriot Farm and dedicate themselves to achieving Colonel’s dream. The cart-horse Wrestler devotes himself to the cause with particular zeal, committing his great strength to the prosperity of the farm and adopting as a personal maxim the affirmation “I will work harder.”
The Sheep- 4lambs, ragstoriches, sheeproar,Uncle Pustule,
Sheep45, Moosheep, hackney,Newsheeopbirdseat, wildsheep, Swatted etc bleat the slogan "4 leaders good 1 leader bad .


At first, Animal Farm prospers. Crewse works at teaching the animals to read, and Done takes a group of young puppies to educate them in the principles of Animalism. When Mr. Jones reappears to take back his farm, the animals defeat him again, in what comes to be known as the Battle of the Cowshed, and take the farmer’s abandoned gun as a token of their victory. It becomes a Holy Relic to the Animals.
As time passes, however, Done and Crewse increasingly quibble over the future of the farm, and they begin to struggle with each other for power and influence among the other animals. Crewse concocts a scheme to build an electricity-generating windmill, but Done solidly opposes the plan. At the meeting to vote on whether to take up the project, Crewse gives a passionate speech. Although Done gives only a brief retort, he then makes a strange noise, and nine attack dogs—the puppies that Done had confiscated in order to “educate”—burst the barn and chase Crewse from the farm. Done assumes leadership of Animal Farm and declares that there will be no more meetings. From that point on, he asserts, the pigs alone will make all of the decisions—for the good of every animal.
The pigs increasingly deficate and urinate in the farms pond and other animals get sick as the pigs use the
tap from the old farm house they now inhabit.
Some of the animals, notably a wise barn owl named KH
warn of the pollution, but they are laughed down by the sheep and a massive disinformation campaign of Gates and Margarine that pig defication is good for them.

Done now quickly changes his mind about the windmill, and the animals, especially Wrestler, devote their efforts to completing it. One day, after a storm, the animals find the windmill toppled. The human farmers in the area declare smugly that the animals made the walls too thin, but Napoleon claims that Crewse returned to the farm to sabotage the windmill. He stages a great purge, during which various animals who have allegedly participated in Crewse’s great conspiracy—meaning any animal who opposes Doness uncontested leadership—meet instant death at the teeth of the attack dogs. With his leadership unquestioned (Wrestler has taken up a second maxim, “Done is always right”), Done begins expanding his powers, rewriting history to make Crewse a villain. Done also begins to act more and more like a human being—sleeping in a bed, drinking whisky, and engaging in trade with neighboring communists. The original Animalist principles strictly forbade such activities, but Margarine, Done’s propagandist, justifies every action to the other animals, convincing them that Done is a great leader and is making things better for everyone—despite the fact that the common animals are cold, hungry, and overworked. Done has the farm redirect all its crops to truffles, which the pigs relish but no other animals can eat. KH the wise barn owl flies
to Costa Buena and lives there

Mr. Frederick, a neighboring socialist, cheats Done in the purchase of some timber and then attacks the farm and dynamites the windmill, which had been rebuilt at great expense. After the demolition of the windmill, a pitched battle ensues, during which Wrestler receives major wounds. The animals rout the farmers, but Wrestler’s injuries weaken him. When he later falls while working on the windmill, he senses that his time has nearly come. One day, Wrestler is nowhere to be found. According to Margarine, Boxer has died in peace after having been taken to the hospital, praising the Rebellion with his last breath. In actuality, Done has sold his most loyal and long-suffering worker to a glue maker in order to get money for whisky.

Years pass on Animal Farm, and the pigs become more and more like authoritarian socialists—walking upright, carrying whips, and wearing clothes. Eventually, the seven principles of Animalism, known as the Seven Commandments and inscribed on the side of the barn, become reduced to a single principle reading “, 4 leaders good 1 leader better.” Done entertains a human communist named Mr. Pilkington at a dinner and declares his intent to ally himself with the human communists against the capitalist classes of both the human and animal communities. He also changes the name of Patriot Farm back to the Chateau Farm, claiming that this title is the “correct” one. Looking in at the party of elites through the farmhouse window, the common animals can no longer tell which are the pigs and which are the socialists.

Edited by JG at 11:40:38 on 11/08/21