Animal Farm - Chapter 10

Animal Farm - Chapter 10 – Summary

• As the years passed by, some animals died, others were bought, and a new generation was born.

• The animals who participated in Rebellion were old and tired, but not retired. The retirement project was forgotten.

• The windmill was finished, and a new one was planed, yet the stalls did not have light, nor hot and cold water. The three-day week became also an illusion. The animals still lived in poor conditions. They could not even remember if the life in the early days after Rebellion were better or worse than now.

• However, the farm was prosperous, more lands were bought, and the pigs were getting fatter. The wind mill was used to make money for the luxurious life that pigs and dogs were leading.

• “And yet the animals never gave up hope” (87). They were happy to be free.

• For a whole week the sheep were kept away of the farm and were taught a new song.

• In the day the sheep returned, the animals of the farm were to be the witness of the climax of the pigs’ tyranny: they marched around the farmyard in their back legs, like their old enemies, the mankind.

• The rest of the animals would have protested, but at a signal, the sheep started sing, “Four legs good, two legs better!” (89)

• The Seven Commandments from the barn wall were erased. Instead, there was only one Commandment, which said, “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.” (90)

• The rest of the changes that took place did not seem to be so strange anymore. The pigs started wearing clothes, bought telephones, and subscribed to various newspapers.

• A week later, the human neighbours came to make peace with the Animal Farm. They were impressed by the windmill and by Napoleon’s ability to make the “lower animals” (92) to work long hours with a low rations (93).

• Napoleon informed the human neighbours that the hoof and the horn were removed from the flag, and that, from now on, the farm’s name changed into “The Manor Farm”.

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