The completion of the second windmill marks not the rebirth of Snowball 's utopian vision, but a further linking of the animals and humans: Used not for a dynamo but instead for milling corn and thus making money , the windmill's symbolic meaning has like everything else been reversed and corrupted.
Animal Farm is now inexorably tied to its human neighbors in terms of commerce and atmosphere. Previous Chapter 9. Next Chapter Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title. Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks? My Preferences My Reading List. Animal Farm George Orwell. Summary and Analysis Chapter Chapter 1. Clover settles a brood of orphaned ducklings in Seeing that everyone but old Moses, Old Major points out that Mr.
Jones butchers pigs, will someday Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Clover learns the whole alphabet but cannot read words, while Boxer learns the first four letters Chapter 5. One day, Clover takes Mollie aside and quietly asks if she really saw Mollie allowing a man from Chapter 6. Boxer brushes this off, but Clover remembers that there was a rule against sleeping in beds.
She asks Muriel to read Squealer, accompanied by a few dogs, passes by and helps put things in perspective for Clover. Chapter 7. Clover and the other animals remain by the windmill.
They look out over Animal Farm and Chapter 8. She asks Benjamin to read Chapter 9. Clover and Benjamin encourage Boxer to be careful, but Boxer Clover and Benjamin warn him to take care of himself, but Boxer ignores them.
One summer Except for Benjamin and Clover , all the animals run to tell Squealer what happened. The two also disagree on whether they should as Napoleon thinks amass an armory of guns or as Snowball thinks send out more pigeons to neighboring farms to spread news of the rebellion.
On the Sunday that the plan for the windmill is to be put to a vote, Napoleon calls out nine ferocious dogs, who chase Snowball off the farm.
Napoleon then announces that all debates will stop and institutes a number of other new rules for the farm. Three weeks after Snowball's escape, Napoleon surprises everybody by announcing that the windmill will be built. He sends Squealer to the animals to explain that the windmill was really Napoleon's idea all along and that the plans for it were stolen from him by Snowball.
The defection of Mollie marks her as an even greater materialist than she had appeared to be earlier in the novel. The fact that she is bribed away from Animal Farm with sugar and ribbons — two items that Snowball condemned as unnecessary for liberty in Chapter 2 — shows her desire for luxury without making the necessary sacrifices to obtain it. She is a defector from the politics of Animal Farm and is never mentioned by the other animals, who find her abandonment of Animalism and the rebellion shameful.
Despite their implied condemnation, however, the pigeons do report that "She appeared to be enjoying herself" — much more so than the animals who remain on the farm. Mollie may be politically shallow in the eyes of her former comrades, but she does manage to secure herself a much more comfortable life, which raises the question of whether one is better off living well with one's enemies or suffering with one's comrades. The novel eventually suggests that Mollie did, in fact, make a wise decision in leaving Animal Farm, although to be fair she did not do so because of any political or moral motives.
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