Animal Farm Timeline

Mr. Jones

Tsar Nicholas II

In the beginning, Mr. Jones -the owner of the Manor Farm, fell asleep drunk and forgot to feed his animals. Mr. Jones would represent Tsar Nicholas II, and he is a terrible leader.

Old major, the 12-year-old boar calls all the animals to the big barn for an important meeting. Old major is highly respected on the farm. He represents Vladimir Lenin.

Old boar Major

Just like Vladimir Lenin, Old Major started rebel-rousing and brought up the idea of a rebellion. He talked about his vision, and he taught the soon to be the national anthem of the farm to the animals.

Major's speech

Old Major's death

In chapter 2 we also learn about the animals and who they are. The animals were planning the rebellion at the time and figuring out a plan on how they would get rid of Mr. Jones and his men.

2 Pigs

Bye Mr. Jones

In chapter 3 we know that there is a very big harvest. The animal that worded the hardest was a powerhouse and he was boxer the horse. Boxer would represent the Russian working class who helped out throw the Tsar.

The working horse

Also, Sunday meetings were something they did weekly. On Sundays Snowball and Napoleon would argue over many things and this is just like the Russian revolution and how Stalin and Trotsky always argued and competed with each other.

Arguments

Furthermore, the two leaders are doing separate things snowball is trying to help the animals learn how to read and help them understand what animalism is and napoleon is taking puppies away from Lucie and Bluebell and these puppies are important more deep in the book. He also was educating the young.

Animalism

In the fall more and more animals learn about the rebellion by pigeons that Napoleon and Snowball sent.

Other farms

Great battle

Breaking rules

winter comes and Mollie starts working less and less each day. Mollie is breaking all the rules and she finally sells herself to another farm. The pigeons see her wearing a ribbon which is a rule that she has broken. She doesn’t like her life on the farm. Mollie would represent the bourgeois middle class. She runs away from the farm.

Also in this chapter, the topic of a windmill comes to mind. Snowball argues for the windmill and this would help with labor problems and Napoleon argues against the windmill and he said food production is the most important.

Windmill

Animals work hard

Napoleon has a great idea to make trades with other farms even though its a commandment no animal should ever do business with each other. He also hires a solicitor named Mr. Whymper who became Napoleon’s agent.

Mr. Whymper

The windmill was finished but one day in November a storm comes among the animals and destroys the windmill. Napoleon blamed the destruction on Snowball and said: “the next morning we will begin building the Windmill”.

Bye windmill

The animals The animals are suffering from starvation and Napoleon asks Mr. Whymper to tell the world how well they are doing. Also in this chapter, there was the hens rebellion and they went to the top of the barn to lay their eggs. Nine hens die trying to protest.

The Hens

Squealer and Napoleon are leading the animals to all lies.

Lies

One day in spring, Napoleon calls the animals to a meeting. He forces confessions to all those who have doubted him like the hen’s last chapter. He has those animals killed with his secret dog force. He also changes the Beast of England to a new song Napoleon’s poet Minimus wrote. Minimus would represent a news writer that only praises Stalin.

New song

Napoleon is going to do a timber trade with Mr. Fredrick. Mr. Fredrick is a really bad person.

Trades

Fake money

ATTACK!!

Mr. Fredrick comes to the farm the next morning after the trade and he declares war against the animals. Mr. Fredrick comes with 14 men with all guns and they start shooting. This was by far the hardest battle but Boxer proves himself to be a powerhouse and helps a lot. The humans blow up the windmill but the humans still lose and the animals protect their grounds. The pigs celebrate by getting drunk and they broke a rule.

At the end of the novel, Humans are given a tour on the farm and at the very end, Napoleon says that the farm name will change from Animal farm back to the Manor Farm. That’s the end of the book and a lot has changed from hating humans to now loving them. Napoleon is a selfish pig and doesn’t care about the rest of the farm.

Last scene