In the coming two weeks, I will re-read The Animal Farm and do some notes to assist me use them as a reference in my thesis in the future–
Here are my notes between the first and the fifth chapter:
Chapter 1:
- By reading Animal Farm, the first chapter depicts the rebellion was led by the ‘old major’ in Mr Jones’ farm with other animals, which they agreed beings with two legs like their lord Jones are bad, who is doing no labors but only set them to work. The old major led the farm animals to sing the song ‘beasts of england’ in this topic, which represented their determination of seeking of freedom in their life.
Chapter 2:
- The second chapter talks about two young boars, snowball and napoleon took most duty left by the old Major after his death. They structured a system called ‘animalism’, and letting the other animals trust it is a must to expel Mr Jones and his men in the farm through the successful action of fight. Without being physically controlled anymore, they listed main principles of animalism to seven commandments through the three months studies of read and write.
Chapter 3:
- The third chapter points out pigs took the leadership in the farm with their superior knowledges, while they were not doing any practical work.
- For the other animals, they overcame difficulties of using human being’s tools and received a lot of pleasures by getting more food to eat, working with a more balanced task allocation.
- Pigs painted their flag on an old green table cloth to represent their future republic of the animals with the weekly meeting started running.
- Main boars in this novel, Snowball and Napoleon always have opposite arguments in their plans and decisions of the farm.
- Harness room became a headquarters for pigs to learn and study, pig Snowball formed most committees for the farm such as the egg production committee for the hens. However, due to the gap of intelligence quotient between different animals in the farm, not every one of them knew the whole alphabet.
- (P38-39) Apples were being commented to bring to the harness room for pigs, due to they assumed themselves as the most important brain workers in the farm. Also, the milk was mixed into pig’s mash in everyday.
- (P39) On the sake of gaining more food, pigs threatened the other animals that Mr Jones would be back with their failures in arranging the farm.
Chapter 4:
- This chapter shows about how did Mr Jones moan of the animal farm and his experience in the red look at willing-don (P40). And how the owners Mr Pilkington and Mr Frederick respectively from the adjoined farms Foxwood and Pinchfield (P41) were terrified by the animal farm, or Manor Farm, from what they called it.
- Meanwhile, human beings raised up their hatred to the song of ‘Beast of England’ (P42).
- Another war carried by Mr Jones and his men were happening in early October, which was been expected and well prepared to defense by the animal farm, it ended up with retreating human beings, the death of the sheep; and the wound of Snowball.
Chapter 5:
- This chapter starts with Mollie, the foolish and pretty mane, had been seen with a Mr Pilkington’s man in a morning (P47). With her drastically disagreements in responding to the truth, she reappeared on the other side of Willing-ton to work for a smart dog cart ran by a fat red faced man who feed her with sugars (P48).
- (P49) The ongoing argument between Snowball and Napoleon: Napoleon was better at canvassing support from the sheep, Snowball was more successful with his brilliant speeches and ideas learnt from ‘Farm and Stockbreeder’.
- (P51) Napoleon held aloof with Snowball’s plan of building up a dynamo in the farm, and he was strongly against the windmill publicly from the start.
- (P52) Benjamin the donkey, was the one not voting for either side of plans of two boars.
- (P53-55) Snowball had been attacked and expelled by nine enormous dogs reared privately by Napoleon through the meeting, after he let most animals believe on his plan of building up a windmill.
- (P55) After snowball had been expelled, weekly meeting in Sunday morning had been replaced by special committee of pigs.
- (P56) The control taken by mainly pigs had raised up protests by the other animals, however, all arguments were terminating with sheep’s tremendous bleating of ‘four legs good, two legs bad!’
- (P57) The porker pig Squealer, his trick of turn black into white had been constantly used to persuade the other animals with Napoleon’s plans.
- (P58) Napoleon copied the windmill plan and creation organized by Snowball after expelled the latter.
Here are my notes on the paper:
