Animal Farm – Chapter 10 Summary and Analysis

Summary

The years pass. Many animals age and die, and few remember the days before the Rebellion. Pets complete a new windmill, which is not used to generate electricity, but for grinding corn, an effort far more profitable. The company seems to have grown richer, but only the pigs, and many dogs live a comfortable life. Squealer explains that pigs and dogs do very important work-filling out forms and so on. The other animals largely accept this explanation, and their lives go on much as before. They never lose their sense of pride for the farm animals or their feeling that they are differentiated from other farm animals. The inhabitants of Animal Farm still fervently believe in the goals of the rebellion, a world without human beings, equality for all animals.

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One day, Squealer takes the sheep out to a remote place to teach them a new song. Not long after, the animals have just finished their day’s work when they hear the terrified neighing of a horse. This is Clover, and she called hastily to the other site. There, the animals Clarinet marvel to them, walking on its hind legs. Napoleon appears just fine, walking upright, worse, he carries a whip.Before that other animals have the ability to respond to change, the sheep begin to sing, as if on cue: “Four legs good, two legs better!” Clover, whose eyes can not, in his old age, asks Benjamin to read the writing on the wall of the barn where the Seven Commandments were originally enrolled. Only the last commandment remains: “. All animals are equal” However, now carries an addition: “. But some animals are more equal than others” In the days that follow, Napoleon openly begins smoking a pipe, and other pigs subscribe to human magazines, listen to the radio, and start the installation of a telephone, even when wearing clothes that have saved human from the wardrobe of Mr. Jones.

One day, the pigs invite neighboring human farmers over to inspect Animal Farm. The farmers praise the pigs and express, in diplomatic language, their regret for the past “misunderstandings”. The other animals, led by Clover, looking through a window as Mr. Pilkington and Napoleon toast each other, and Mr. Pilkington declares that farmers share a problem with the pigs: “If you have your lower animals to grips with,” says , “we have our lower classes!” Mr. Pilkington notes with satisfaction that the pigs have found ways to make animals farm animals to work harder and with less food than any other group of farm animals in the county. He adds that he can not wait to introduce these improvements in your business. Napoleon replies with reassuring his human guests ever wanted something different pigs to conduct business in peace with their fellow humans and have taken steps to further this goal.Animals in Animal Farm will no longer address each other as “comrade,” he says, or pay homage to the Old increased nor greet a flag with a horn and hoof on it. All of these costumes have been changed recently by decree, it assures the men. Napoleon announces that Animal Farm will now be known as the Manor Farm, which is, he believes, his “original and correct name.”

The pigs and farmers return to their amiable card game and other animals to crawl out the window. Soon the sounds of a quarrel he pulls back and listen. Napoleon and Pilkington have played the ace of spades simultaneously, and each accuses the other of cheating. The animals, looking through the window, made of a departure, as you look around the room of the house, can not distinguish which of the players cards are the pigs, who are human beings.

Analysis

The last chapter of Animal Farm brings the novel to its logical, inevitable, yet chilling conclusion. Pigs in all consolidate their power and their totalitarian communist dictatorship completely overwhelms the democratic-socialist ideal of Animal Farm. Napoleon and the other pigs have become the same as human farmers, just as Stalin and the Russian Communists became indistinguishable from the aristocrats and capitalists who had replaced Westerners who had complained. The meaning of the name of Napoleon is now quite clear: the historical Napoleon, who ruled France in the nineteenth century and conquered much of Europe before being defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1814, initially seemed to be a great liberator, overthrowing Europe kings and monarchs and bring freedom to his people. But at last crowned Emperor of France, shattering the dreams of European liberalism. Rather than destroy the aristocracy, Napoleon simply remade around him. Similarly, the pig Napoleon figures as the champion of Animalism early. Now, however, the protests against the humans who want more than to be one of them, ie, an oppressor.

Throughout the novel, Orwell told his story from the point the animals’ view. In this chapter, we see clearly the dramatic power achieved by this narrative strategy. The animals remain naively hopeful to the end. Even if they realize that the republic foretold by the Old Major is yet to come to fruition, but firmly against will insist that “[s] ome day.” These statements load the final events of the story with intense irony. In fact, even if Orwell has used foreshadowing and subtle hints to make us more suspicious of the motives of the animals of pigs’, these statements of faith in the naive animal farm by animals common occur shortly before the final scene.This gap between ‘optimism and the harsh reality of the pigs’ animals totalitarian government creates a sense of dramatic contrast.Although the descent into tyranny has been gradual, Orwell provides us with a restatement of the original ideals only moments before the full revelation of their betrayal.

  
Orwell uses emphatic line sections to increase the terror of this betrayal: the succinct transport “It ‘was a pig walking on its hind legs” and “He carried a whip in his trotter” drops this stunning information about us without warning, shocking us, as happens to the animals. Moreover, the decision to tell the story of Orwell’s animals from the point ‘of view makes his final tableau even more terrible. The framework of pigs and farmers, indistinguishable from each other, play cards together is disturbing enough in itself.Orwell, however, allows us to see this scene from the animals ‘perspective from the outside look inside to frame the scene this way, Orwell points to the animals’ total loss of power and law: Animal Farm has created a society of equals, It has simply established a new class of oppressors to dominate the same class of the oppressed, a division of flesh, as the opening of the novel, from the wall of a farmhouse.

The final distillation of the Seven Commandments, which appears in the barn, “all animals are equal but some are more equal than others”, is the latest example of how those in power to manipulate the language as an instrument of control. At the beginning of the novel, the idea of ​​”more equal” seemed not only contrary to the spirit of socialist egalitarian Animal Farm, it would seem logically impossible. But after years of violence, hunger, dishonesty, and fear, the spirit of Animal Farm seems lost in the distant past. The inherent concept of equality has given way to notions of substantive law: Animal Farm as an institution no more than the values ​​of social justice and dignity, the power alone makes a creature worthy of rights. Claiming to be “more equal”-a concept intrinsically absurd that the other animals, pigs have distorted the original ideals of the farm literally unrecognizable and a step in the shoes of their former tyrannical masters.