Chapter+10

Summary

In Chapter 10 many animals such as Muriel, Bluebell, Jessie, Pincher, and Jones have died and newer generations of animals have appeared. The animals completed the new windmill but it is used for milling corn instead of electricity. The pigs and Napoplean become even human like and more controlling, walking on two legs, and carrying whips as a symbol of opression, and the animals later find out that they've been played like a game of cards.

Character Parallels

Event Parallels Patterns and Changes Basically, evertything that Napolean had promised and said is contradicted. At first, the animals still believe that everything they have done is for the common good. "they were concious that they were not as other animals. If they were hungry, it was not from feeding tyrannical human beings...No creature among them went on two legs"(131) However on the very same page, there is an outrage and the animals witness "A pig walking on his hind legs"(131) and Napolean also walking on his legs "out came Napolean himself, majestically upright" (132). This change is significant because its where the animals realize what they have gotten themselves into. This contradicts the statment "Four legs good, two legs bad" and that anything human like is unacceptable. The animals, even the younger generations largely ignorant of the rebellion, draw satisfaction from the fact that Animal Farm is the only farm in all of England that is run by animals. But, they are no better off than they were when Jones controlled the farm, and they are still being oppressed by a non producing, totalitarian, controlling class. The saying "Four legs good, two legs bad" had been replaced with "Four legs good, two legs better".(132)
 * Napolean goes from liberating the animals to controlling them. "And finally there ws a tremendous baying of dogs and a shrill crowing from the black cockerel and out came Napolean himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gambolling round him...He carried a whip in his trotter" (132) This is a reference to the historical eighteenth century general Napolean Bonaparte was a "vicous cynic who forgave his closest betrayers,impatient and could entrall men" who was praised as a liberator of the French people. H[[image:napigleon.jpg width="248" height="479" align="right"]]owever after defeating the people that he considered to be unfair and not good to the lower people, he ultimately took their place and crowned himself Emperor, similar to how pig Napolean in Animal farm considered himself the Animal Farm dictator. The whip is a symbol for oppression, we first see it early in the story when Jones and his men are attempting to suppress the rebellion. After the successful rebellion, the animals build a fire and burn all of the degrading tools that Jones uses to use on them. Orwell specifies the whips being burned apart from the others saying that, "All the animals capered with joy when they saw the whips going up in flames."(Pg. 20) And now, the pigs are all carrying whips with them when supervising the other animals' work.
 * Napoleon- “Henceforward the farm was to be known as “The Manor Farm”- which, he believed, was its correct and original name” (pg. 140) Showing that napoleon is the leader from “Animal Farm” and giving the Farm the new name. Also representing Stalin, due to the fact Stalin was defining himself as the new USSR leader and having a stronger data power base to become director of Russia.
 * Squealer- Squealer is more of a propaganda minister of Animal Farm, and Napoleons alter ego. “Squealer was so fat that he could with difficulty see out of his eyes.” (pg. 128) Also showing that squealer getting bigger is parallel to his propaganda getting bigger and bigger. Stalin’s economic revolution lead to him gaining the control of the people through propaganda. In gaining the Soviet Union’s industrialism, came the process in renaming towns, cities, and other places in the Soviet Union to be renamed in honor of him as a cult of personality. For example Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for the city of Stalingrad.
 * "There, round the long table, sat half a dozen farmers and half a dozen of the more eminent pigs, Napolean himself occupying the seat of honour at the head of the table....The company had been enjoying a game of cards"(134) The game represents the alliances that Russia had with the other countries. This is meant to parallel to the Tehran Conference of the Allied powers (United Kingdom, U.S. and Russia )on November 29, 1943 intended to discuss strategies to ending World War II. At the meeting, Stalin, being himself, dominates the meeting and discussion, as seen in the book "Napolean occupies the seat of honour at the head of the table[[image:300px-Teheran_conference-1943.jpg align="left"]]..[he] remained on his feet, imitated he had words to say"(134). At the conference he uses victories over Germany like the Battle of Kursk to try and get his way. Interesting enough, Roosevelt and Churchill give in and give over much of Eastern Poland, and makes it a communist state. Also at the meeting he makes extreme proposals to execute 50,000 to 100,000 German police officers, however Roosevelt again denies that request, jokingly saying 49,000, but really suspicious of Stalin, as he was concerned about Stalins gaining power. Churchill also denounced this proposition explaining that he believed that tried and convicted felons of war crimes should be penalized as such, but killing such as Stalin proposed should never be used to make political statements.
 *  "There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of trouple appeared to be that Napolean and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously"(139). They had cheated each other. At the end of the game, there had been issues and mistrust .This parallels how the West and Russia had only been in a temporary alliance for self conveniences during World War II. For the U.S and Britain to take down Germany and open up an Eastern front in France to relieve pressure on Russia. But after the war with Germany, due to each player in the Tehran conference being in the game for themselves, we cue the Cold War with Russia- the ace of spades. The only thing that kept them from fighting each other at first, was the fight against Germany and ridding the Nazi regime, being that the U.S was a capitalist democracy and Russia a communist dicatatorship. Also, it was said that Stalin distrusted the U.S and England for helping the Whites in the Bolshievik Civil Wars, and possibly delaying D-Day so that Russia could be defeated and England and U.S blamed the Nazi- Soviet Pack of 1939 for the start of World War II.
 * At this point in the book, Animal farm is very successful- which is in direct relation to Russia's success after Germany's attack. "The farm was more prosperous now, and better organised: it had even been enlarged by two fields which had been bought from Mr. Pilkington" (128), They were becoming more successful and expanding their land. Russia was rebuilding, and the economy was becoming a success. Russia had gained a even bigger sense of pride.
 * The Song, "Beasts of England" is basically eliminated. "Even the tune of Beasts of England was perhaps hummed secretly here and there...no one would have dared to sing it aloud"(131). ﻿ The ban of the song shows the change in the communist society. It goes from "Beasts of England" (a Lenin, Marxist view) which represents an equal and fair society to "Comrade Napolean" Stalin's idea of communism in that he should control how the people worked. Although "Beasts of England" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">continues to be remembered by all the animals of the farm, "it was a fact that everyone on the farm knew it."(131) This shows that while the ideas and and values of the rebellion have been forgotten and suppressed, the spirit of the rebellion is never forgotten. Even the new generations know the song which means that the animals are teaching it to their young despite it being banned. This could signify that the older animals do recognize to a certain degree what has been happening with Napoleon and his ascension to power, but they are too stupid to really be able to formulate any idea and organize any sort of rebellion,physically or mentally.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 250%;">Quotes <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">. This symoblizes how the pigs have taken over and how ignorant the animals are. In Russia, Stalin had taken almost complete control over what was going on economically and socially, and he created his own rules. However, the animals were unable to realize that there was no fairness or logic in what he was doing because of the constant changes in the animals' lives, coupled with the constant denial of change by the pigs. The Animals have become completely disillusioned because Napoleon had so altered the animals' history that their memory has been rendered useless and undependable.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> The seven original commandments, after being altered to the point of contradiction of their original intent, have been changed into one single commandment that says "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than each other"(133). This contradicts the statement in the beginning of the book that all animals are equal, and not one animal is above the other. The pigs, dogs and Napolean have gained complete control over the other animals lives. Their personal freedom to object is denied.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">"Napoleon himself, majestically upright... carried a whip in his trotter."(133) Aside from the poker game with the farmers, the pigs' beginning to walk is the final development in their transition toward humanity. And the whip symbolizes the final intent of the pigs' oppression of the "lower animals", just as Jones had done in the beginning of the book. Also, Napoleon reverts the name of the farm from Animal Farm, back to Manor farm. Napoleon has successfully carried out a revolution and changed the entire farm to a socialist system, and then swings the pendulum all the way back to the state that it was in when Mr. Jones was in authority, only difference being that Napoleon now rules the farm.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Animal Farm/ Napolean is becoming more successful and advancing in its technology. "The windmill had been completed at last and the farm possesed a threshing machine and a hay elevator of it's own and various new buildings added to it."(128) The farm is expanding, and the infrastructure is growing stronger. This is in direct relationship to how Russia was. They were having a space race with the United States to see who could launch artifical satellites and such into space, they were growing rapidly. The economy was stabilizing, the lower class was trusting Stalin and power was beginning to settle in his hands.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Stalin gains absolute control. "the animals never gave up hope. They never lost their honour in being members of Animal Farm" (130) They were proud to be apart of the reign. In Russia, people still had love for Stalin, despite the numerous amounts of people killed. However, it was all out of fear. Also, the lower class has little say. "This, too, would be suppressed and the skull had already been buried"(137). This demonstrates how Stalin was ridding the past, and creating communism in his own view and to create a future of his liking. He produced newspapers, he got rid of literature that he did not consider appropriate. The burying of the skull also symbolizes the completed abandonment of the ideals held Marxism, and the original rebellion.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">By the end of the war, Russia was in a Communist state. The working class in this time was told what to do, and how to do it by their government. There was no freedom for the people of Russia to do as they please. Just like in Animal Farm the animals are told what they can and cannot do. Although the people are forced to do as their told, Russia is becoming more successful through this government, as also seen in Animal Farm, when the pigs take control and increase the farms production while decreasing the animals rations and freedoms."the farm was more prosperous now, and better organized"(128) With the increased production Russia could spend money on other areas of interest. The Space Race was one of the areas Russia had the best advantage. Russia was leading the world in space exploration
 * "<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">A time came when there was no one who remember the old days before the Rebellion, except Clover, Benjamin, Moses the raven, and a number of pigs"(127) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Many of the original animals that had taken place in the rebellion are now dead. The only animals who were active during the rebellion left are Clover, Benjamin, Moses the Raven, and a number of the pigs. Clover suffers from bad eyes and because of her gullible and unwitting nature, she is unable to coherently remember the past as a result of the ongoing manipulation of history by the pigs. Benjamin on the other hand has remained constant throughout the story. Even to the last page he claims that he can remember everything that had occurred to him during his life, but when commenting on the the past, he offers no revealing or revolutionary insight according the the pigs' control. He just says, "that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse."(130) Benjamin has been the only true constant in this story, and offers the real world vantage point that no matter what government is in power, the lower class will always remain, and that conditions only ever marginally increase and decrease. While there may be political revolution, a true social revolution can never be accomplished because of the susceptibility of people to power and greed. Benjamin calls this the "unalterable law of life."(130)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">"No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." (139) This is significant because here, Orwell is suggesting that Czarist Russia and Stalin's Russia have become impossible to distinguish between, because during both times, the people are ruled by an oppressive totalitarian ruler/ruling class. In relation to the real world, Russia was working with England and the West, which suggests that England and the West are not truly democratic.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">"Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer-- except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs." (129) This is important because it parallels how Stalin made the lower class work and despite of this, they recieved nothing, even though he had promised them luxuries and things they wanted.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">"The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each payed an ace of spades simultaneously"(139) This is significant because it shows how the governments under Stalin, and Churchill and Roosevelt at the time were cheating each other. The argument that ensues represents Orwell's prediction of the Cold War the followed the growing tensions between The Western powers and Russia. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;"> What is funny however is that Orwell will not live to witness his prediction come true. In Animal Farm he predicts that any government that involves an oppressed people and a leader will always have an oppresed people and a leader- the occurence is a cycle. And with the conclusion of the story, we see this cycle come full circle. The oppressed will become the oppressor and the pattern will continue- the pigs being indisitinguishable from the humans.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"(133)

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