The plot of Animal Farm starts out with Old Major, an old wise pig calling a meeting in the barn with all of the farm animals on Manor Farm. Old Major calls the meeting to tell the Animals about a dream that there were no humans running farm animals. Old Major explains how this prophecy will come true one day and tells the animals that they have to ready themselves. Old Major dies a couple weeks later and the animals begin preparing to take over the farm. The pigs formulate the basic principles of what Old Major was explaining and decide it is to be called Animalism. A short time later the animals successfully defeat Mr. Jones (the farm owner) and run him off the land. The Animals change the name of the farm from Manor Farm to Animal Farm and plan to live out Old Major's prophecy.
The farm seems to be running smoothly at first because snowball begins teaching the other animals to read and Napoleon takes the new-born puppies to teach them himself. Mr. Jones comes back to take over the farm, but the animals defeat him again and call the battle the Battle of Cowshed. Snowball and Napoleon seem to be fighting for power over Animal Farm. At the next meeting in which the animals decide to vote on the windmill, Napoleon calls out his attack dogs that he had trained since they were puppies. The dogs run Snowball off the farm and Napoleon takes up the position as Animal Farms leader. He also says there will be no more meetings and that the pigs will make all of the decisions from now on.
Napoleon changes his mind about the windmill and the other animals devote themselves to completing it. After the windmill was built a storm came through and knocked the windmill over. Napoleon tells the other animals that Snowball came back and knocked the windmill over. Napoleon also threatens the other animals stating that if they are associated with Snowball in any way that they will be killed by the attack dogs. Napoleon also starts to act more and more like a human. He begins sleeping in a bed, drinking whiskey, and starts trade talks with the neighboring human farmers. These activities were forbidden by the original Animalism principles, but Squealer justifies everything that Napoleon does, convincing the other animals that he is a great leader. Meanwhile the rest of the animals are overworked, tired and cold.
Mr. Frederick a neighboring farmer cheats Napoleon on a purchase and then the neighboring farmers attack the farm. A huge battle is fought and during the battle Boxer the strong, hard-working horse gets injured. When rebuilding the windmill after it was blown up during the battle Boxer falls and feels that his time is running thin. The pigs then promise Boxer he can retire soon but trick him. The pigs send Boxer off in a glue truck and tell him that it is a truck to take him to an animal hospital. The other animals read the truck and try to warn Boxer but it is of no use. Squealer tells the animals shortly after, that Boxer was sent to an animal hospital but died there while praising the animals rebellion. The real reason Napoleon sold Boxer to the glue factory was to get money for whiskey.
Over time the pigs begin looking more and more like humans. The Seven Commandments of Animal Farm are reduced to "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal then others". Napoleon brings some neighboring human farmers over to play cards and plans to align himself with the humans. Napoleon also plans on changing the name of the farm back to Manor Farm because that is it's original name. While the other animals look into the window they find that they cannot tell the difference between the pigs and the humans.
The farm seems to be running smoothly at first because snowball begins teaching the other animals to read and Napoleon takes the new-born puppies to teach them himself. Mr. Jones comes back to take over the farm, but the animals defeat him again and call the battle the Battle of Cowshed. Snowball and Napoleon seem to be fighting for power over Animal Farm. At the next meeting in which the animals decide to vote on the windmill, Napoleon calls out his attack dogs that he had trained since they were puppies. The dogs run Snowball off the farm and Napoleon takes up the position as Animal Farms leader. He also says there will be no more meetings and that the pigs will make all of the decisions from now on.
Napoleon changes his mind about the windmill and the other animals devote themselves to completing it. After the windmill was built a storm came through and knocked the windmill over. Napoleon tells the other animals that Snowball came back and knocked the windmill over. Napoleon also threatens the other animals stating that if they are associated with Snowball in any way that they will be killed by the attack dogs. Napoleon also starts to act more and more like a human. He begins sleeping in a bed, drinking whiskey, and starts trade talks with the neighboring human farmers. These activities were forbidden by the original Animalism principles, but Squealer justifies everything that Napoleon does, convincing the other animals that he is a great leader. Meanwhile the rest of the animals are overworked, tired and cold.
Mr. Frederick a neighboring farmer cheats Napoleon on a purchase and then the neighboring farmers attack the farm. A huge battle is fought and during the battle Boxer the strong, hard-working horse gets injured. When rebuilding the windmill after it was blown up during the battle Boxer falls and feels that his time is running thin. The pigs then promise Boxer he can retire soon but trick him. The pigs send Boxer off in a glue truck and tell him that it is a truck to take him to an animal hospital. The other animals read the truck and try to warn Boxer but it is of no use. Squealer tells the animals shortly after, that Boxer was sent to an animal hospital but died there while praising the animals rebellion. The real reason Napoleon sold Boxer to the glue factory was to get money for whiskey.
Over time the pigs begin looking more and more like humans. The Seven Commandments of Animal Farm are reduced to "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal then others". Napoleon brings some neighboring human farmers over to play cards and plans to align himself with the humans. Napoleon also plans on changing the name of the farm back to Manor Farm because that is it's original name. While the other animals look into the window they find that they cannot tell the difference between the pigs and the humans.
