Overview of Animal Farm
Animals can rise up against their owners due to abuse or neglect. There were several occasions when the animals and the humans came into contact with each other in order for the humans to retake the land back from the animals. Several of these conflicts were: In the food storage-shed, the battle of the cowshed, and the battle of the windmill.
The first of these conflicts took place in the food storage-shed. It all started earlier in the year when the animals were having a meeting in the barn. That is where old Major was going to tell the other animals about a dream that had come to him the night before. After all of the animals were in the barn, old Major began to tell the story of his dream and in that story brought fear. Old Major told them of their lives after they were no longer needed on the farm, how they would be sent to the butchers to be slaughtered and that they would be replaced with younger and healthier animals (Orwell 1-8). After old Major finished his speech, he taught the animals a song that he had learned when he was a young pig:
Beast of England, beast of Ireland,
Beast of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the golden future time.
Soon or late the day is coming,
Tyrant Man shall be o’erthrown,
And the fruitful fields of England
Shall be trod by beast alone.
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