Animal Farm Chapter 5

Chapter 5 Key Events

• Mollie is being "troublesome" and then disappears
• A "bitterly hard winter"
• Snowball and Napoleon "disagreed at every point"
• Snowball makes himself popular with his "brilliant speeches" but Napoleon was better at gaining support "in between times"
• Plans for the windmill are introduced
• Napoleon urinates on the plans
• Snowball and Napoleon continue to disagree about how best to defend the farm
• Napoleon releases nine dogs who attack Snowball and chase him form the farm
• Napoleon cancels the Sunday meetings
• The animals are told that the windmill will be built afterall - Squealer tells the animals that it was Napoleon's idea all along

Setting: Animal Farm

Mollie is seen looking at Foxwood, which represents Great Britain. Molly loved luxuries from Mr Jones, eg ribbons and sugar. Snowball told Mollie earlier in chapter 2 that ribbons "are a badge of slavery". This links to the Russian Revolution. Mollie represents the petit bourgeouisie who were small scale capitalist lower middle class people who didn't wanta revolution because they were perfectly content with life as it was before the revolution in Russia.

Moliie is also said to represent the bourgeoisie who were the upper and middle classes who fled Russia after the revolution after 1917 with many coming to Britain.

Mollie doesn't own land or property and doesn't holld any power.

Chapter 5 is the last time we see Mollie. Not everyone benefited form the rebellion. This mirrors the attitude of those whowere better off under the Tsar Nicholas II

Loss of "democracy" is clear through language used

The passive voice employed by Orwell shows how this erosion of distributed power crept in largely unchallenged

"It has come to be accepted that the pigs, who were manifestly cleverer than the other animals, should decide all questions of farmpolicy."

The passive voice "it had come" is used here. The instigatoe is hidden from the reader who accepted that the pigs should decide all questions of farm policy, wasn't actually clear. We just have to accept there's a shift in power that took place and as readers we can recognise that this passive voice implies it was through surreptious means - the pigs were underhand in their efforts to seize power.

Divisions between Snowball and Napoleon deeepen in chapeter 5

The most significant dispute is over the windmill, which representes the Soviet Union's 5 year plan. These plan were mainly economic endeavours intended to further the development of the Soviet industry, most of which failed.

They fcused on a range of ideas - developing large scale productions, cosumer goods, farming and agriculture, communication systems, healthcare, education and welfare. The overarching aim was to help Russia/ Soviet Union (from 1920) to catch up and overtake…