Animal Farm Chapter 3

Chapter 3 Key Events

• The animals complete the harvest
• The animals are "happy"
• We learna bout a meeting that takes place once a week
• The pigs take over the harness-room
• Snowball starts his "committees"
• The animals are taught to read and write
• The mystery of the disapperaring milk is cleared up...the milk and apples are for the "pigs alone"

Setting: Animal Farm

• "How they toiled and sweated to get the hay in"
• "The pigs were so clever that they could think of a way round every difficulty"
• "The pigs did not actually work but directed and supervised other." as "with their superior knowledge it was natural that they assume the leadership"

Marx believed it was possible for leaders to maintain the best interests of the class from which they came.

Orwell's langauge: "superior knowledge", "natural", "assume"

We easily accept the authority of pigs; the reader's acceptance aligns with the experience of the animals. The language implies that this was the only option and the pigs quietly but forcefully sieze control.

At this point it is already possible to compare the pigs with Jones.

Liberation and Happiness

• "The animals were happy as they never concieved it possible to be"
• "Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure"
• "(the food was) not doled out to them by a grudging master"
• "with the worthless parasitial human beings gone…