One night,at Mr.Jones,of the Manor Farm,he had locked the hen-houses for the night
he was too drunk and can’t remember to shut the popholes and he dancing and than he go to bed.All of animal are wake up.Old major calling all of animal for meeting.First came the three dogs, Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher, and then the pigs, The two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs with great care lest there should be some small animal concealed in the straw.Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together. A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in fact he was not of first-rate intelligence, but he was universally respected for his steadiness of character and tremendous powers of work. After the horses came Muriel, the white goat, and Benjamin, the donkey and Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm.They are meeting for how about Mr.Jones.They want to be live and manage by themselves because Mr.Jones too drunk.Old major
All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the back door. When Major saw that they had all made themselves comfortable and were waiting attentively We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old. No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself
Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him. The dogs had suddenly caught sight of them, and it was only by a swift dash for their holes that the rats saved their lives
The singing of this song threw the animals into the wildest excitement. Almost before Major had reached the end, they had begun singing it for them- selves. Mr. Jones, who sprang out of bed, making sure that there was a fox in the yard. He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom, and let fly a charge of number 6 shot into the darkness. The pellets buried themselves in the wall of the barn and the meeting broke up hurriedly. Everyone fled to his own sleeping-place. Three nights later old Major died peacefully in his sleep. During the next three months there was much secret activity. Major’s speech had given to the more intelligent animals on the farm a completely new outlook on life. After than all of animal vote for new major for farm Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon. Several nights a week, after Mr. Jones was asleep, they held secret meetings in the barn and expounded the principles of Animalism to the others. At the beginning they met with much stupidity and apathy. Some of the animals talked of the duty of loyalty to Mr. Jones, whom they referred to as ‘Master,’ or made elementary remarks such as ‘Mr. Jones feeds us. If he were gone, we should starve to death.Boxer and Clover are great difficulty in thinking anything out for themselves, but having once accepted the pigs as their teachers, they absorbed everything that they were told, and passed it on to the other animals by simple arguments. They were unfailing in their attendance at the secret meetings in the barn, and singing a song of Beasts of England, when meetings always ended. In past years Mr. Jones, although a hard master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days. He had become much disheartened after losing money in a lawsuit, and had taken to drinking more than was good for him.
June came,On Midsummer’s Eve, which was a Saturday, Mr. Jones went into Willingdon and got so drunk at the Red Lion.the early morning all of animal so hungry andOne of the cows broke in the door of the store-shed with her horn and all the animals began to help themselves from the bins and Jones and his men suddenly found themselves being butted and kicked from all sides after that the animals had destroyed everything that reminded them of Mr. Jones. Napoleon then led them back to the store-shed and served out a double ration of corn to everybody, with two biscuits for each dog. Then they sang Beasts of England from end to end seven times running, and after
that they settled down for the night and slept as they had never slept before.Then Snowball took a brush between the two knuckles of his trotter, painted out MANOR FARM from the top bar of the gate and in its place painted ANIMAL FARM.
The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away. They ran thus:
THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.
all the humbler animals set to work to learn the new maxim by heart. FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD but Napoleon took no interest in Snowball’s committees and all the pigs were in full agreement on this point, even Snowball and Napoleon. Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back.
Late summer the news of what had happened on Animal Farm had spread across half the county. Every day Snowball and Napoleon sent out flights of pigeons whose instructions were to mingle with the animals on neighbouring farms, tell them the story of the Rebellion, and teach them the tune of Beasts of England. In January there came bitterly hard weather. Many meetings were held in the big barn, and the pigs occupied themselves with planning out the work of the coming season. their decisions had to be ratified by a majority vote. This arrangement would have worked well enough if it had not been for the disputes between Snowball and Napoleon. At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. Snowball had made a close study of some back numbers of the Farmer and Stockbreeder which he had found in the farmhouse, and was full of plans for innovations and improvements. Napoleon don’t agree with Snowball plan after that Napoleon, with the dogs following him, now mounted on to the raised portion of the floor where Major had previously stood to deliver his speech. After Snowball gone from the farm all that year the animals worked like slaves. Napoleon communicate with the human for exchange food but another animal don’t agree with him, and Napoleon drink an alcohol.Benjamin and Clover could only be with Boxer after working hours, and it was in the middle of the day when the van came to take him away. Boxer work hard until,he sick and than all the animals took up the cry of ‘Get out, Boxer, get out!’ But the van was already gathering speed and drawing away from them. Three days later it was announced that he had died in the hospital. in spite of receiving every attention a horse could have. Squealer came to announce the news to the others. Muriel was dead; Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher were dead. Jones too was dead and Snowball was forgotten. For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment.ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS