Submitted by pardirina on 11/25/2010 05:01 AM Flag This Paper
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Old Major the major cause of the novel, had a dream. The dream caused the rise of the rules, national unity, and the rebellion. The rise of rules let the pigs take advantage. By doing things that the animals thought they couldn’t do. And the animals were always blaming their memory, after one of the commandments were changed. After Muriel, a sheep, saw that the fourth commandments has been changed, the book said, “Curiously enough, Clover had not remembered that the Fourth Commandment mentioned sheet: but as it was there on the wall, it must have done so†(Orwell 79). The national unity was caused by the song and the flag, these aren’t bad though. Old Major’s song gave the animals something to do when bored and made them feel free. The flag showed people of the outer world that this was their land, Animal Farm. And the effect of the rebellion was Napoleon’s rise, but that happened later in the story.. Napoleon’s rise caused many effects later in the story.
Napoleon, a black pig, is like a web Old Major made. Old Major dreamed of the rebellion, and causing Snowball running away from Napoleon and the farm, causing Napoleon to rule the farm. Napoleon’s effects were, the changed rules, fear, dead Boxer, and starvation. Napoleons changed to rules to save him self from guiltiness. Napoleon told Squealer, a pink pig, to change the rules. The animals found out that they were changing the rules when one night, Squealer drank too much Whiskey and became drunk and fell down near the commandments with a paint brush. “ One night at about twelve o’clock there was a loud crash in the yard, and the animals rushed out of their stalls. It was moonlit night. At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces†(Orwell 112). And near the ladder was Squealer. Later in the story, Napoleon told the animals that there were Snowballs’ special agents in the farm, so some animals confessed...