Chapter 5
Lucido
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
Napoleon used other’s ideas not for the common good but for his own
good…
WINDMILL; NAPOLEON’S IDEA?