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    Old Major the prize-winning boar gathers the animals of Manor Farm to share his vision of a society where animals live without human oppression. After his death, the pigs Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer formulate Animalism from his teachings. The animals drive Mr. Jones from the farm, renaming it Animal Farm and dedicating themselves to Major's dream. However, Napoleon and Snowball soon struggle for power, leading Napoleon to solidify his rule through force and rewriting the principles of Animalism.

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    Old Major the prize-winning boar gathers the animals of Manor Farm to share his vision of a society where animals live without human oppression. After his death, the pigs Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer formulate Animalism from his teachings. The animals drive Mr. Jones from the farm, renaming it Animal Farm and dedicating themselves to Major's dream. However, Napoleon and Snowball soon struggle for power, leading Napoleon to solidify his rule through force and rewriting the principles of Animalism.

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    Old Major the prize-winning boar gathers the animals of Manor Farm to share his vision of a society where animals live without human oppression. After his death, the pigs Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer formulate Animalism from his teachings. The animals drive Mr. Jones from the farm, renaming it Animal Farm and dedicating themselves to Major's dream. However, Napoleon and Snowball soon struggle for power, leading Napoleon to solidify his rule through force and rewriting the principles of Animalism.

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    Animal farm summary

    Old Major, a prize-winning boar, gathers the animals of the Manor 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
    England,” in which his dream vision is lyrically described. The animals greet Major’s
    vision with great enthusiasm. When he dies only three nights after the meeting, three
    younger pigs—Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer—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
    Animal Farm and dedicate themselves to achieving Major’s dream. The cart-horse
    Boxer 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.”

    At first, Animal Farm prospers. Snowball works at teaching the animals to read, and
    Napoleon 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. As time passes, however,
    Napoleon and Snowball increasingly quibble over the future of the farm, and they
    begin to struggle with each other for power and influence among the other animals.
    Snowball concocts a scheme to build an electricity-generating windmill, but Napoleon
    solidly opposes the plan. At the meeting to vote on whether to take up the project,
    Snowball gives a passionate speech. Although Napoleon gives only a brief retort, he
    then makes a strange noise, and nine attack dogs—the puppies that Napoleon had
    confiscated in order to “educate”—burst into the barn and chase Snowball from the
    farm. Napoleon 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.

    Napoleon now quickly changes his mind about the windmill, and the animals,
    especially Boxer, 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 Snowball returned to
    the farm to sabotage the windmill. He stages a great purge, during which various
    animals who have allegedly participated in Snowball’s great conspiracy—meaning
    any animal who opposes Napoleon’s uncontested leadership—meet instant death at
    the teeth of the attack dogs. With his leadership unquestioned (Boxer has taken up a
    second maxim, “Napoleon is always right”), Napoleon begins expanding his powers,
    rewriting history to make Snowball a villain. Napoleon also begins to act more and
    more like a human being—sleeping in a bed, drinking whisky, and engaging in trade
    with neighboring farmers. The original Animalist principles strictly forbade such
    activities, but Squealer, Napoleon’s propagandist, justifies every action to the other
    animals, convincing them that Napoleon is a great leader and is making things better
    for everyone—despite the fact that the common animals are cold, hungry, and
    overworked.

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