Chapter 5Lucido

Contents• Executive Summary By Shizza and Tahira• Main Event By Sundus• Critical Analysis By Sumaiya

Executive Summary

Mollie The materialistic and fairly stupid mare:• Getting late for work• Accepting gifts from the “Undesirables”• Mollie leaves…

Mollie is forgotten

VOTE FOR NEPOLEON AND FULL MAGER!

Ambitious Plan Of Snowball

Mechanized farm with heat and light. Animals would have to work less.

Napoleon Does Not Agree

Napoleon takes over• Nine Puppies grow up into fierce dogs• Snowball is expelled

Changes • Small committee of pigs• Brainwash of the animals• Napoleon gains popularity

New Customs• Old Major’s skull is placed at the base of flagpole

Hypocrisy• Presentation of the windmill idea as his own by Napoleon;

Supported by Squealer

How Did it Happen?

“At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws”

• These words explain Napoleon’s violent expulsion of Snowball from Animal Farm, which points towards the quarrel between Russian revolutionaries Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky

• Napoleon, losing the contest for the hearts and minds of the lower animals to his rival Snowball, turns to his private police force of dogs to enforce his supremacy

Authoritarian Tactics• Just like Stalin, Napoleon prefers to work behind the scenes

to build his power by secretly by deception, while Snowball devotes himself to winning popular support through his ideas, just like Trotsky

• This chapter signals the deterioration of Animal Farm from a society based on equal rights to a society in which those who are powerful determine who gets what rights.

CLIMAX OF NOVEL • Where Napoleon runs Snowball off the farm with his trained

pack of dogs and declares that the power to make decisions for the farm will be exercised solely by the pigs.

• After the revelation in Chapter III that the pigs had been stealing apples and milk for themselves and ever since the animals’ victory over Mr. Jones, the motives of pigs and Napoleon in particular were somewhat suspicious. The pigs appeared more interested in grabbing resources and power than in the good of the farm.

• Now, when Napoleon set his dogs on Snowball, he proved that he did not aim at common good.

• Napoleon’s takeover bespoke a long period of careful plotting: Napoleon had been deliberating his seizure of power ever since he first took control of the dogs’ training, in Chapter III.

• Thus, the banishment of Snowball constitutes the culmination of long-held resentments and justifies our feelings of uneasiness and suspicions about Napoleon’s character.

Critical Analysis

Mollie’s Desertion• She “Emigrates” because she is unwilling to live under

“Animalism”

Pigs Taking Responsibility• Pigs Tighten their control as in the October revolution

Vote for Snowball

Less Labor More Luxury; the Common Good

Vote for Napoleon• He gets the sheep to support him

Division into Two Factions

Windmill; Soviet Industry

How Best to Protect the Farm From Another Attack?

• Trotskyism and Stalinism

Desire to More Power

Violence Among Animals

• Whatever goes on four legs is a friend

• No Animal Shall Kill Other Animal

Tactics and Changes

WINDMILL; NAPOLEON’S IDEA?

Napoleon used other’s ideas not for the common good but for his own good…