Grasas En Panaderia

ANIMAL FARM
GEORGE ORWELL
SUMMARY

Character Summary

Mr Jones
The cruel farmer who holds the animals of the farm in slavery.

Old Major
An old and venerable pig on the farm. He is the animal who inspires everyone else to dream of being freed from slavery under the humans.

Snowball
A pig, he is one of the leaders of the rebellion. Snowball is highly intelligent and persuasive, abrilliant orator, and is always dreaming ways and means of improving life on the farm.

Napoleon
A pig, along with Snowball the other main leader of the rebellion. He is more adept than Snowball at building alliances among the other animals. He is also more politically asture than his rival.

Squealer
A pig. Like Snowball, a brilliant and persuasive orator, but unlike Snowball, much lessinclined to take the lead with his own ideas.

Boxer
A carthorse. Enormously strong, most of the ambitious building projects undertaken on Animal Farm depend on his physical strength and his unquestioning dedication to the rebellion. Dull-witted, he is easily manipulated by the more intelligent animals.

Clover
Another carthorse. Unquestioningly loyal to the rebellion, though even she hasdoubts at times.

Muriel
A goat, one of the more intelligent animals on the farm outside of the pigs. She is a great friend of Clover.

Benjamin
A donkey. Stubborn and reserved, he is one of the very few animals on the farm who does not actively support the rebellion, though he does not condemn it either. A cynic. He is devoted to Boxer.

Moses
A raven. He seduces many of the animalson the farm with tales of SugarCandy mountain, a mythical place in the clouds where animals go after they die.

CHAPTER ONE

After the drunken farmer Jones has gone to bed, all the animals of the farm assemble for a meeting. The meeting has been called by Old Major, a boar who is the oldest and wisest animal on the farm. The pigs, cows, horses, ducks, hens and dogs all assemble in the bigbarn, thinking that they are going to be told about a dream that Old Major had the previous night.

When they have all settled down, Old Major addresses them. Before telling them about his dream, he says that, as he is coming to the end of his own life, and he wants to share his wisdom with the other animals. He reminds them about all the work that they have to do for their human masters, howlittle they are given to eat, how they own nothing but their bare skin. He describes how the humans steal everything produced by the animals, with the animals receiving in return only enough food to keep them alive. He tells them that their children are taken from them almost as soon as they are born, and that when they come to the end of their useful lives, they will be cruelly slaughtered.

He goeson to tell them that all the animals are comrades, they are brothers, and that their only real enemy is humans. Man is the root cause of all their troubles, he tells them. He urges the animals to fight the humans at every turn, and tells them that rebellion is the only possible solution to their situation. In the middle of the speech, a few wild rats enter the barn, and the dogs chase them. OldMajor calls a vote on whether or not the rats should be considered to be comrades. A large majority agrees that the rats are comrades, the only animals to vote against are the dogs and the cat, who, we are told, “was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.” Old Major then concludes his speech by advising them on how they should conduct themselves. They must recognise that whatever goeson four legs or wings is a friend. They must on no account ever come to resemble man, and must never live in a house. He tells them finally “All animals are equal.”

Old Major finally gets around to telling them about his dream, but the first thing he tells them is that he cannot describe the dream, except to say that it reminded him of a song that he learned in his youth called “Beasts of...