Animal Farm

P: How did the content through out the book lead to the end?

R: I have to say I was so disappointed with the end of the novel. The tale continued to go down hill with very little hope and I guess I was just rooting for the last few pages to have a turn for the better. Sadly this is a satire on actual events and I guess it isn't really up to Orwell to change the events of history. Anyways, At the beginning of the novel Major, as I mentioned before, relates his dream to his "Comrades". This is quickly followed by the rebellion and the organization of the new farm. As the farm continues to develop leaders are established and rules that were once set in stone seemed to slowly begin to alter themselves. For example Commandment number five went from "No animal shall drink alcohol" (p. 43) to later "No animal shall drink alcohol in excess" (p. 113). The most important rule that was eventually altered, however, was the final rule that "All animals are equal" (p. 43). At the end of the novel the rule had finally become "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others" (p. 133). All of these slow changes led to the last few pages of the tale where the animals look into the windows of the farm house and realize that they can not tell the pigs the pigs from the human beings any longer. This is the point to which the animals sit back and wonder if the days after the revolution were any better than the days when the humans were in charge.