"Animal Farm" by George Orwell

Gliederung

• Plot
• Summary
• Charakters
• Old Major, the pig
• Napoleon, a pig
• Snowball, a pig
• Squealer, a pig
• Boxer, the cart-horse
• Benjamin, the donkey
• Moses, the raven

Plot

The book is about a Farm where the animals make a revolution and chase away the farm owner with his family. For a while everything works great and everybody is happy. But on and on the pigs, who make the organization part on the farm, get more and more like humans. They even change "the seven rules of Animalism" one by one and in the end the other animals can't divide them from humans, which used to be their enemies and then are the friends of the pigs.

Summary

Mr. Jones is the owner of the "Manor Farm", he is often drunk and treats his animals badly. One night Major, an old boar, calls out for all animals to come to the big barn. He tells them about his vision of freedom and Animalism, and how their live would be improved. The main facts are that human beings are the enemies, and they just can survive through rebellion, and all animals are comrades and equal, at the end he teaches them a song called "Beasts of England". He says that there is no special time for the rebellion

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