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A 1945 Beast Fable by George Orwell satirizing the evolving Russian communism, as well as a book with two adaptations that have an understandably misplaced demographic.In the book, Orwell tells, allegorically, how the Russian Revolution would go if its participants were animals, and if you reduced Russia to the area of a typical English country farm. When you get what the point of the book is — being a satire of Stalinism written during World War II — it's not hard to guess where the plot is going.The animalist state of Animal Farm is founded by Old Major's philosophy of peace and equality among animals and a deep hatred for humans. To confirm their stance, the animals create a system of constitutional laws collectively called "Animalism" that are painted on the side of the barn: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. (With sheets.) No animal shall drink alcohol. (To excess.) No animal shall kill any other animal. (Without cause.) All animals are equal. (But some animals are more equal than others.)But as Napoleon's reign grows corrupt, the laws are eventually violated by the pigs and rewritten entirely to one famous phrase ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"), with the maxim "Four legs good, two legs bad" changed to the also-iconic "Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better".Animal Farm was strictly outlawed by Josef Stalin as it technically depicted Stalin and other Soviet leaders as evil pigs (Stalin as Napoleon, Leon Trotsky as Snowball, and Vyacheslav Molotov as Squealer. Also, Karl Marx as Old Major, though that one technically wasn't evil). The inspiration for the book came about when Orwell saw a boy leading a cart-horse, whipping it all the while. Orwell thought that if animals realized just how strong they are, they could defeat the human race and end up running the world.Adaptations include: Animal Farm (1954): An Animated Adaptation produced by the British animation studio Halas & Batchelor, which was widely heralded as a milestone of British animation,note It was the first British animated feature to achieve worldwide release. though it came under heavy criticism for its Lighter and Softer approach to Orwell's fable, including a (somewhat) Happy Ending in which the farm animals rise up against their new overlords. (It appears that the United States' CIA had a hand in providing funding for the film, though it seems uncertain whether the film's writers and directors were aware of the fact.) Animal Farm (1999): A live-action version, starring Patrick Stewart as the voice of Napoleon and Kelsey Grammer as Snowball. Animal Farm (2008): A stage adaptation, drawing heavily from another Orwell classic, Homage to Catalonia. Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel (2019): A Comic-Book Adaptation by Brazilian creator Odyr. Orwells Animal Farm (2020): Nerial, developer of Reigns, partnered with the Orwell Estate to develop a Video Game Adaptation for PC and mobile. Animal Pound (2023): A series published by Boom! Studios written by Tom King and art by Peter Gross that changes the setting to an animal shelter.Andy Serkis is prepared to direct a new film version using Serkis Folk.It also inspired Pink Floyd's Concept Album Animals, though that criticizes capitalism instead of communism. John Reed's Affectionate Parody aptly named Snowball's Chance also rips on both capitalism and Animal Farm itself, portraying Snowball returning and becoming a George W. Bush Expy. In Animal Farm, things go horribly wrong; in Snowball's Chance, things go horribly right.All spoilers below are unmarked.
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And Then John Was a Zombie
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And Then John Was a Zombie: The pigs end up adopting human ways to the point where, in the end, the other animals find it impossible to tell the pigs from the humans.
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Dirty Coward
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Dirty Coward: Napoleon and Squealer never take part in any of the actual battles, openly voice their fear of getting killed, and ultimately hide while the other animals do all the fighting. Averted when Mr. Frederick dynamites the windmill; Orwell rewrote the scene to have Napoleon standing tall after the explosion, as a reference to how Stalin remained in Moscow when the Sixth Panzer Army was less than five miles away.
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Negated Moment of Awesome
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Negated Moment of Awesome: When Napoleon demands that the chickens hand over their eggs to be sold — they rebel by flying to the rafters of the coop and then laying their eggs there so they break on the ground. Napoleon merely cuts off their food supply (and threatens death to any animal who dares help them), and then executes the ringleaders. Later another group of hens tries to assassinate Napoleon but fail and are executed, but it spooks Napoleon enough that he becomes paranoid about his safety.
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: The 1954 film's version of Napoleon's takeover. Instead of chasing Snowball away, Napoleon has the audacity to kill Snowball with the dog's pups. If the dogs chasing Snowball into a corner wasn't clear what they did, then the growling and squealing should make it more evident.
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The Commandments
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The Commandments: The Principles of Animalism (see main entry). While founded on an ideal and noble cause, they gradually become more and more corrupted. Eventually, the pigs unveil "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
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Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist
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Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Napoleon and his cronies always insist that Animal Farm's growing tyranny is done out of necessity, whether to keep Mr. Jones from taking the farm back or just to maintain order and prosperity. However, it's blatantly clear that these are just threadbare excuses to cover up their far more self-serving true motives.
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Gone Horribly Wrong
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Gone Horribly Wrong: The animals install a new system after overthrowing Jones. Not only does it not go as planned, but the pigs' corruption ends up making things even worse.
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The Purge
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The Purge: When Napoleon orders the four young pigs (who previously protested against his decisions) executed. Many other animals are then killed after being declared traitors and/or conspirators.
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Talking Animal
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Talking Animal: By the end, the pigs are capable of talking with humans fluently. No other animal can do this.
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The Hedonist
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The Hedonist: The pigs in general. They usually spend their time living in luxury while all the other animals do the hard work.
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Adaptational Villainy
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Adaptational Villainy: The 1999 film presents Farmer Pilkington as the Greater-Scope Villain of the whole situation, being the unreasonable debt holder over Farmer Jones. The film also presents Napoleon as a Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond completely ignorant of how to run a farm or manage finances, with Pilkington "partnering" up with him to essentially swindle him.
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Angry Guard Dog
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Angry Guard Dog: Napoleon has nine of these, which he reared by taking Jessie the dog's newest litter shortly after their birth and rearing them exclusively to become his own personal soldiers.
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Adaptation Expansion
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Adaptation Expansion: The new endings of both film versions, which were done to reflect what had happened in Russia after the book had been published. The book ended as badly as the real-life events it's based on, with the pigs getting away with everything in a Full-Circle Revolution. The 1954 animated movie changes it to the animals leading a revolt against the pigs. The 1999 live-action movie's ending was based on the real-life collapse of the Soviet Union by showing the pigs' empire eventually falling apart on its own.
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Ironic Name
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Ironic Name: Guess who Napoleon is named after.
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: Benjamin, who is possibly the only animal who has any understanding of what the pigs are doing; his token gestures to speak the truth end in vain.
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Verbal Tic
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Verbal Tic: "Four legs good, two legs bad!" is all the sheep ever say. And at the climax of the story, "Four legs good, two legs better!"
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Sunk Cost Fallacy
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Sunk Cost Fallacy: Not spelled out, but heavily implied; as conditions on Animal Farm become harsher, the non-pig animals take to reassuring themselves that, regardless of how bad things get, they aren't as bad as they were under Mr Jones despite the fact that they clearly are, and even become worse (notably, at the end, the other farmers praise the pigs for convincing the other animals to work harder for much less than they were given under Jones). In addition to being susceptible to the propaganda and terror tactics of the pigs, it's implied that the animals prefer to tell themselves this rather than face the truth that their revolution has failed and their efforts to improve the farm are increasingly futile.
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He Who Fights Monsters
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He Who Fights Monsters: At the end of the story, is there really any difference for the animals between the rule of the pigs and the rule of the humans? Whips, bare minimal rations, work from sun to sun while others take the fruits of it, death when not useful anymore, masters walking on two legs and in a comfortable house while they suffer the cold outside… they rebelled against all those things, and all those things eventually returned with the pigs.
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The Bad Guy Wins
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The Bad Guy Wins: In the original story, the pigs become just as oppressive and cruel as the humans ever were, never facing any repercussions for their totalitarian ways and possibly even rewarded for it. The film adaptations feature bittersweet endings of varying sweetness.
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Insufferable Genius
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Insufferable Genius: Snowball acts much nicer than most other pigs, but he also has a very patronizing attitude towards the other animals and generally ignores any criticism of his ideas.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: In the 1999 film, Mr. Frederick criticizes Pilkington for opening up trade with Napoleon while the other animals on the farm are starving.
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Humans Are Flawed
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Humans Are Flawed: The pigs send forth the pigeons to announce the coming of the revolution to all the other farms. Animals that were well looked after and loved by their caretakers were utterly mortified to hear the call. Others that were mistreated and abused, listened and were intrigued.
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Adapted Out
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Adapted Out: Mrs. Jones in the 1954 film. Mr. Whymper, the solicitor who acted as the prime liaison between humans and the pigs of Animal Farm, is absent from the 1999 film; Mr. Pilkington takes up his role when he establishes his business relationship with Napoleon.
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Brilliant, but Lazy
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Brilliant, but Lazy: Benjamin is a deconstruction of this; he's smart enough to realize that things probably won't be as rosy as the pigs say they'll be, he sees right through their various deceptions, and he's one of the few animals other than the pigs who can read. But Benjamin can't be bothered to spell it out for the other animals. In the end, this means Boxer obliviously works himself to near-death from exhaustion, and then meekly goes to his death because he trusts Napoleon's claim that he is being sent to a vet instead, and though Benjamin (who figures out the truth) tells the other animals, it’s too late to save him. All because Benjamin couldn't be bothered to try to make his fellow animals realize what a tyrant Napoleon had become. Even after this, when Napoleon tricks the others into thinking Boxer really was sent to a vet, Benjamin doesn’t try to oppose him.
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Chekhov's Army
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Chekhov's Army: The dogs in the live-action film. They first get mentioned as Napoleon taking Jessie's pups to rear and educate. Then they appear just when Napoleon needs their muscle as huge, powerful, vicious dogs.
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Animal Farm is a cautionary tale. Even if you successfully revolt to remove a hated tyrant, this doesn't mean you've changed the world — you've just created a gap for someone else to take that tyrant's place, and possibly become even worse.
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Good Is Dumb
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Good Is Dumb: Deconstructed. At least when compared to the pigs, the rest of the animals are rather simple-minded and easy for the pigs to manipulate as they rarely question the pigs' authority. Even at times when they even consider the farm's state to have become worse than when Jones was in charge, they don't consider to have a change of authority and instead only make up excuses for the pigs' ruthlessness which allows them to continue their dictatorship with nobody to stop them.
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And You Thought It Would Fail
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And You Thought It Would Fail: In-Universe, the rival human farmers were expecting the whole idea of a farm run by animals to collapse in no time. Played with in both film adaptations, where it ultimately does, but it was more from the pigs getting Drunk with Power rather than gross incompetence like the farmers expected.
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Crowd Chant: "Four legs good, two legs baaaaaad!" And at the end of the book, it's "four legs good, two legs better!"
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Curb-Stomp Battle: The first battle against humans attacking the Animal Farm — later known as "the Battle of the Cowshed" — is pretty one-sided, with animals quickly gaining the upper hand and winning decisively. The fact that humans brought only a single gun with them certainly helped.
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Took a Level in Kindness: Benjamin the donkey becomes more sympathetic to the other animals in both film adaptations, mostly by being less lazy.
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Adaptational Heroism
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Adaptational Heroism: The 1999 film shows Farmer Frederick as being primarily concerned about the poor welfare of the other animals under the leadership of the pigs, in contrast to Farmer Pilkington, who sees the animal farm situation as an opportunity to make a tidy profit swindling the financially naive pigs.
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Randomly Reversed Letters
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Randomly Reversed Letters: The Seven Commandments of Animalism, as originally written on the wall by Snowball, have only two errors of penmanship, one of them being the reversal of one S. In the edition with full-color illustrations by Ralph Steadman, the reversed S is the one in the Fifth Commandment, "No animal shall drink alcohol."
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Broken Aesop: The 1999 film tries to account for Soviet collapse by changing the ending so that Napoleon's empire becomes unsustainable and collapses on itself. Fair enough, but then the film concludes with a smiling human family driving onto the farm as the sun comes back out and Jessie happily explains, "Now we have new owners!" Which pretty much negates the entire meaning of the allegory. Although she also says they won't let them make the same mistake, meaning if they start being tyrannical, they'll kick their butts.
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Blatant Lies
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Blatant Lies: Everything Squealer says, but he words it so that disagreeing with him sounds pro-human or pro-Snowball. "You don't want Jones to come back, do you?" According to the pigs, the man who took Boxer away was a vet, not a knacker; he had a knacker's vehicle because he'd recently bought it from a knacker and hadn't gotten around to changing the writing on it yet. The book then mentions that somehow, after the man left, the pigs got money to buy some bottles of whiskey.
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Wretched Hive
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Wretched Hive: Animal Farm becomes this during the winter under Napoleon's ruling. There was barely any food and the animals were angry, miserable, and fighting amongst themselves. It's widely rumored that they also resorted to cannibalism and infanticide to keep their stomachs full.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Both film versions qualify. The 1954 version has the animals get fed up with the pigs, rise up, and overthrow all of them, taking back control of the farm. The 1999 live-action film has Napoleon's empire eventually collapse in on itself, reflecting the real-life downfall of the Soviet Union. However, in both versions, Boxer is still dead, the farm is completely ruined, and the animals all wasted years of their lives and endured countless amounts of suffering, all of which ultimately amounted to nothing, even if there is some hope for a better tomorrow.
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Killed Offscreen
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Killed Offscreen: The reader is told that some characters die off towards the end of the book in a very off-handed way — including Jones, who is said to die in an inebriates' home.
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Black Comedy Burst
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Black Comedy Burst: The purge, of all scenes, gets this treatment in the 1954 version when the pigs are shown to have amended the relevant commandment using the blood of the executed animals.
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Always Chaotic Evil
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Always Chaotic Evil: The pigs, especially Napoleon, tend to be power-hungry and selfish. Those who aren't corrupt end up dead: the genuinely idealistic Old Major dies before the revolution even happens, the Ambiguously Evil Well-Intentioned Extremist Snowball gets run off the farm and possibly killed once Napoleon decides he's a threat, and four pigs who oppose Napoleon get purged along with all the other dissidents.
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Death by Adaptation
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Death by Adaptation: Several examples in the 1954 Animated Adaptation: In the book, Jones simply left the area and lost interest in his lost farm, dying in a home for alcoholics. In the movie, it is implied that he died in the explosion that destroyed the windmill. Napoleon and the other pigs have a Bolivian Army Ending against a second animal revolution. A more subtle example is a dog near the beginning, who dies during the first battle instead of the book's original sole casualty being a sheep — this sets up where Napoleon gained the pups he trained into his personal guard. Whereas Snowball escaped to an ambiguous fate in the novel, in the animated film, he gets an off-screen death at the jaws of Napoleon's attack dogs. In the 1999 live-action adaptation, the pigs meet a more ambiguous end, the farm shown to have just fallen apart from Napoleon's despotic rule (much like the Soviet Union had by this time). However, a dead pig is shown in the rubble and heavily implied to be Napoleon. In the original book, the cat's fate was only implied to be that she was killed by the dogs, in the 1954 film we actually get to see the death in all its glory.
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Adaptational Alternate Ending
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Adaptational Alternate Ending: The book ended as badly as the real-life events it's based on, while the 1954 animated movie changes it to a more uplifting ending in which the animals revolt against their new overlords. The 1999 live-action movie expanded the ending based on the real-life collapse of the Soviet Union by showing Napoleon's empire eventually falling apart.
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Humans Are the Real Monsters
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Humans Are the Real Monsters: Part of Old Major's philosophy is that humans are cruel parasites without whom the animals who serve them would be better off. However, as bad as the humans were, the pigs end up becoming just as bad, showing that Old Major failed to account for animals possibly acting greedy, petty and cruel as well. In contrast with the humans, the animals are generally portrayed positively in the book. After the revolution, the animals all work together 'according to their capacity' and no animal steals 'so much as a mouthful'. Napoleon and his fellow pig followers (after he exiles Snowball and does away with any form of democracy on the farm) are an exception since they represent the emerging ruling class of Russia (which Orwell despised). Another exception is Mollie, who represents the middle class.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: This book is a satire of the Russian Revolution. Obviously, things go badly. It ends with a Full-Circle Revolution where the pigs become just as bad as the humans they had overthrown. The 1954 and 1999 films end differently, based on the fall of the Soviet Union, by having the pigs either get overthrown themselves or just left to their fate, which turns it into a Bittersweet Ending instead.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: "It was a pig walking on its hind legs." "He carried a whip in his trotter." (Describing Napoleon) "All animals are equal… but some animals are more equal than others."
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Full-Circle Revolution
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Full-Circle Revolution: The Central Theme of the novel. Most of the pigs end up just as oppressive and greedy as the humans they drove out. The pigs use propaganda, lies, and deceit to get their way. The rest of the animals end up even worse off than before, the name of the farm is changed back to what it was before the revolution, and they can no longer tell apart the pigs and the humans.
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Mirroring Factions
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Mirroring Factions: More or less the moral; the final line of the book sees the animals look from their pig rulers to the humans they are meeting with and being no longer able to tell the difference.
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Smug Snake
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Smug Snake: Squealer, especially in the 1999 movie. He really loves to rub the pigs' superiority in the other animals' faces, even while he's actively deceiving them.
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: At the first show trial, Napoleon has animals mauled to death for crimes as minor as urinating in drinking water.
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Fat Bastard
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Fat Bastard: Squealer, who grows so fat that he can barely see near the end of the novel. Justified since a) he's Napoleon's mouthpiece and thusly getting all of the rich, fattening food he can ask for, and b) as a porker, he has no real desires to sate besides eating, which is one of the reasons porkers are made.
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Straw Hypocrite
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Straw Hypocrite: The pigs have this in spades. When Squealer changes one of the laws from "Animals shall not drink" to "Animals shall not drink to excess", he's still in violation of the law, as he's completely drunk at the time he's adding the extra words. This was implied in the novel, since the animals hear a loud crash and run out in time to see Squealer stumbling around near the barn with a ladder and pot of white paint, but they're not smart enough to realize what he was doing. In the films, it was explicit.
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The Caligula
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The Caligula: Napoleon, especially in the 1999 film where we actually see his empire ultimately just collapse from his despotic incompetence.
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Bookends
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Book Ends: The farm is titled Manor Farm while Jones runs it. The animals rename it Animal Farm after the uprising. After Napoleon's corruption and hypocrisy is complete, the farm is renamed Manor Farm again.
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The Dragon
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The Dragon: Squealer effectively serves as Napoleon's voice. He is just as evil as his boss, and possibly even more repulsive due to his constant toadying.
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The Eeyore
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The Eeyore: The ever-cynical Benjamin, a donkey just like the Trope Namer; "Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on — that is, badly."
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Escaped Animal Rampage
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Escaped Animal Rampage: Farm animals break loose and — unprecedented in the animal world — take over the place and establish a revolutionary community.
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Beast Fable
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Beast Fable: A critique of authoritarian communism falling from its lofty ideals, with Boxer the horse as the overworked proletariat, the sheep as the state-run media bleating propaganda, the dogs as brutal state police removing opposition, and the pigs at the top reaping the fruits of the workers' labor. Equally, it applies as a critique of capitalism, with the humans representing the capitalists and being so similar to the pigs that they cannot be told apart from each other.
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Central Theme
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Central Theme: The corruption of movements that start out with the best of intentions. It's also a satirical/symbolic take on the rise of Stalin.
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Kangaroo Court
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Kangaroo Court: One after another, many animals "admit" to helping Snowball sabotage the farm and get immediately killed. (This cites Stalin's purges and show trials of the late 1930s.) In the live-action film, there were actual trials.
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Brainy Pig
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Brainy Pig: This book features a decidedly dark take on this trope. The pigs, as the most intelligent animals on the farm, declare themselves to be the new government after kicking out their former human masters. Over the course of the story, however, one particular pig named Napoleon (a stand-in for Josef Stalin) becomes a power-hungry dictator who rules the farm with an iron fist.
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Gullible Lemmings
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Gullible Lemmings: Most animals, but especially sheep, are easily convinced by anything that Squealer says.
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Death Glare
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Death Glare: In the animated film, when Squealer gives a eulogy for Boxer after the latter was sent to the knacker, he claims he was with him in his final moments. He's met with this from the rest of the farm animals, indicating that none of them are buying it.
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Losing Your Head
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So the animals are now happy and cheerful, then they enter the farmhouse and find Major's butchered carcass in the kitchen (along with his severed head in a meat rack).
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Cyanide Pill
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Cyanide Pill: By proxy. One gander confesses to working for Snowball and eats some nightshade berries, which are deadly to geese, to kill himself.
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Disneyfication
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Disneyfication: Both film adaptations changed the ending to be more uplifting. The live-action version was made after the Soviet Union collapsed, making it one of the more justified uses.
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Sliding Scale of Animal Communication
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Sliding Scale of Animal Communication: The animals can talk to each other, but only the pigs seem able to talk to humans, and then only after they take over the farm and essentially become honorary humans themselves. In the film, the humans hear the animals' voices over the radio; at first grunts and squeaks, then words, ending with an animals' Triumph of the Will complete with actual "goose-steppers".
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Blind Obedience
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Blind Obedience: Towards the end of the novel, most of the animals default to this regarding the pigs' leadership.
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The Promised Land
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The Promised Land: Sugarcandy Mountain. Played on the cynical side that it doesn't exist, and it's told only to keep the animals in line.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Snowball (as in the snowball effect), Napoleon (as in the dictator), and Moses (as in the one talking about Sugarcandy Mountain, a "promised land").
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Repressive, but Efficient
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Repressive, but Efficient: While Mr. Jones was always a harsh taskmaster, he used to be a capable farmer before a lawsuit caused him to develop a drinking problem. The titular farm is said to be the most efficient farm at exploiting, subduing, and disciplining animals… by Mr. Pilkington, whose sincerity is dubious.
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Affectionate Gesture to the Nose
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Affectionate Gesture to the Nose: Shortly before Mollie defects from Animal Farm, Clover confronts her over the fact that she was seen fraternizing with a human from another farm. One of the damning details Clover specifically asks about is the fact that the man was stroking Mollie’s nose.
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Five-Aces Cheater
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Five-Aces Cheater: At the end of the book, a previously friendly card game between pigs and humans turns sour when Napoleon and Pilkington simultaneously play an ace of spades. While it's obvious at least one of them is cheating, it's never made clear whether it's Pilkington, Napoleon or both; of course, the main point is to establish that for all their claims of friendship, Pilkington and Napoleon aren't actually acting in good faith with each other and both are willing to cheat the other if they think they can get away with it.
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Villain Has a Point
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Villain Has a Point: Squealer makes a somewhat decent point on how the animals successfully drove off the human invaders before they could do anymore damage.
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Adaptational Intelligence
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Adaptational Intelligence: In the book the animals are easily swayed by all of Napoleon's lies until the very last scene, where they seem to realize what's happened. In the adaptations, they seem well aware that he and the pigs are corrupt and realize the Commandments are being altered, but are too scared to do anything.
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Covers Always Lie
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Covers Always Lie: The cover for the 1999 film makes it look like a cute, Disneyesque movie for kids. No. The book itself is also labelled "a fairy story", but it's really a mature and blatant political satire on Red October and Bolshevism.
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The Horseshoe Effect
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Part of Old Major's philosophy is that humans are cruel parasites without whom the animals who serve them would be better off. However, as bad as the humans were, the pigs end up becoming just as bad, showing that Old Major failed to account for animals possibly acting greedy, petty and cruel as well.
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Released to Elsewhere
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Released to Elsewhere: The fate of Boxer, whom Napoleon betrays and sells to the knacker.
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: The pigs repeatedly rewrite the Seven Commandments to fit their actions, finally replacing them outright with "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
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Bolivian Army Ending
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Napoleon and the other pigs have a Bolivian Army Ending against a second animal revolution.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Mr. Pilkington gives Mr. Jones a few of these in the live-action movie for not keeping his farm animals under control.
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Animal Talk
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Animal Talk: All animals can talk to each other, and, eventually, the pigs at least can talk to the humans as well.
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Mature Animal Story
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Mature Animal Story: Animal Farm is labelled as "a fairy story", but this is no whimsical fairy tale book for kids, but rather a political satire on the troubles of Red October and the rule of Joseph Stalin, with all the purging and totalitarian antics it entails.
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: Snowball and Squealer both love making long and animated speeches (fitting, because they're both pigs). This makes sense because they were based on Trotsky and Molotov, respectively, both of whom were known for being very over-the-top.
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Mundane Fantastic
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Mundane Fantastic: By the end of the story, most people have gotten used to the idea of a farm run by animals, to the point where human farmers are invited over to the farm for a card game. It is a subtle sign of the extent that the pigs have left the ideals of Animalism, that they can appear presentable to human beings.
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Red Oni, Blue Oni
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: Snowball and Napoleon respectively. Snowball is the more active and vivacious people person, being described in the book as "quicker in speech". Napoleon, meanwhile, is quieter and more calculating, preferring to scheme in the background and have Squealer do the talking for him. Squealer eventually usurps Snowball as the Red Oni, excitedly spouting off propaganda and singing the regime's praises while Napoleon mostly keeps to himself and rarely appears in public.
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Roman à Clef
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Roman à Clef: Of a sort. Granted, the people are mostly replaced by animals.
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Unusual Animal Alliance
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Unusual Animal Alliance: At least at first, all the farm animals are unified against humans. They even pass a resolution stating that wild animals like rats are comrades too.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: In the book, the cat just stops appearing after the first few chapters, and later isn't mentioned in the list of animals who've died, whilst only Snowball and Mollie are ever acknowledged to have left the farm. It's mentioned that the cat didn't show up to the meeting where Napoleon killed a bunch of the animals, so she probably ran away into the wild. As any cat owner can tell you, cats are smart. Also, what happens to Snowball in the novel and the live-action film adaptation. In the animated film, he's killed by the dogs, but in the other versions, it's open to interpretation because he never actually gets caught and manages to escape from the farm. It's usually assumed he met a similar fate to his real-life counterpart, Trotsky (i.e. assassination). The live-action adaptation also makes clear that Napoleon's rule fell apart after a short time (mirroring the Soviet Union's fate by the time this adaptation was made). How this occurred and what became of the pigs is not shown, it merely implied the whole empire self-destructed from the pigs' incompetence and self-indulgence.
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Villain with Good Publicity
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Villain with Good Publicity: Napoleon in Chapter 8 of the novel (it was hard to come across an animal without hearing how Napoleon's way of running things has improved his/her life). Not so much in the film adaptations, though, which shows the animals seeing him as the monster he is.
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Spell My Name with an S
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Spell My Name With An S: Is it Mollie or Molly? The book itself tends to use the first, while some other references (including us) use the second.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: After having ruined the reconstructed windmill, several of Frederick's men were brutally killed in the Battle of the Windmill by the angry animals.
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Justified Trope
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By his own admission, Old Major has fathered over four hundred children. Given that he was a prized show boar, this isn't unusual.
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Rule of Symbolism
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Rule of Symbolism: Loaded with this. Snowball is Leon Trotsky. Napoleon is Josef Stalin due to the way he ran Animal Farm. Squealer is Molotov, who was Stalin's propaganda minister.
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Sinister Minister
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Sinister Minister: Moses, Farmer Jones' pet raven, who fled the farm when Jones was overthrown and returned years later to tell the animals about Sugarcandy Mountain. His position is kind of analogous to that of religion; his claims are officially denied by the pigs, but they keep him around to keep the animals in line. This was very similar to how the Soviet Union usually dealt with religion, though downplayed it if anything. In the real life Soviet Union, while the case can be argued that the Soviet Union used the Russian Orthodox Church to keep their people in line even though they never actually believed it, the truth is that that was only if the religious people were actually lucky. Most of the time, the Soviets were attempting to eliminate religion outright, and even had the KGB try to investigate locations of churches, sometimes even tricking people into helping them locate a church so they could arrest the occupants for practicing religion, and the penalty was either execution or being placed in a work camp. Moses' reinvigorated status under the pigs' rule might have been inspired by the fact that after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Josef Stalin pragmatically revived the Russian Orthodox Church to intensify patriotic support for the war effort.
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The final fate of Boxer. He works himself until his body breaks down for the sake of the farm's prosperity, and Napoleon has him sold to a knacker since he can't work anymore. Old Major cited this tendency among humans as one of the very worst of their evils against animals, and sure enough, this is the moment in the story where Napoleon is shown to be no better than the animals' original oppressor.
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Bus Crash
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Bus Crash: The ultimate fate of Jones. At some point in the book, it is mentioned that he left the area and lost interest in his lost farm. And later, they took the time to mention that he died years later in an inebriates' home.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Napoleon is the leader of the pigs and the one responsible for corrupting the ideals of the revolution.
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Mouth of Sauron
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Mouth of Sauron: Squealer becomes the mouthpiece for Napoleon.
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Excrement Statement
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Excrement Statement: When Snowball proposes building a windmill, he starts drawing up plans on the floor of the incubator shed over the course of several weeks. At one point, Napoleon comes into the shed, looks over the plans, then urinates on them. Of course, later Napoleon goes ahead with building the windmill and says it was his idea all along.
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Seven Deadly Sins
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Seven Deadly Sins: Napoleon and the rest of the pigs come to embody them. The pigs help themselves to the food at the expense of their fellow animals (Gluttony). The pigs trade Boxer for some booze, and they also force the chickens to hand over their eggs (Avarice). Napoleon slaughters his enemies without remorse (Wrath). Napoleon believes himself to be greater and more deserving of power than Snowball or any other animal on the farm (Pride). Napoleon sires many piglets (Lust). Napoleon hates Snowball for his good ideas and runs him off the farm (Envy). The pigs laze around, while the other animals do the hard work (Sloth).
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Dumb Is Good
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Dumb Is Good: Played straight with Boxer, who is one of the dimmest animals on the farm, but also has a huge heart, a pronounced gentle streak, and massive loyalty to his fellows, which is why Napoleon ultimately is able to work him to death — Boxer is so determined to help the others on the farm however he can that he forgoes looking after himself.
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Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better
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Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: The Trope Namer, as this is one of the "laws" installed by Napoleon and the pigs towards the end. It's the central concept of the story: as Napoleon (a pig) becomes more tyrannical and corrupt, he ultimately abandons one of the most important characteristics that the animals took pride in because of how it made them different from the humans — the notion that four legs are good and two legs are bad — and decides to walk on two legs, like a human.
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Crocodile Tears
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Crocodile Tears: Squealer tearfully gives a eulogy for Boxer after the latter gets sent to the knacker, professing that he was at Boxer's side during his last moments. At one point, however, he suspiciously glances sideways to check if the other animals are seeing through the lie.
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Dead Guy on Display
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Dead Guy on Display: After his death, Old Major's skull is dug up and put out on display to inspire the other animals. Napoleon eventually has it removed.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: The Face–Heel Turn of the pigs, especially Napoleon and Squealer, is quite obvious in advance. And it's mentioned, when the Windmill was rebuilt with 3 feet thick walls, that only explosions could destroy it now, fast forward to Frederick's invasion…
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Dumb Muscle
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Dumb Muscle: Boxer, while incredibly strong, isn't exactly the brightest bulb in the box.
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Meet the New Boss
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Meet the New Boss: The ending of the novel is the animals' slow realization that they can no longer tell the difference between the pigs and the humans. Metaphorically, this is Orwell's declaration that Stalinism is just as bad as capitalism in its exploitation of the working classes (or the non-pig animals) it claims to champion.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: What was supposed to be a tragic moment in the live-action film, as Old Major dies getting accidentally shot in the head by Farmer Jones right before his cause is fulfilled, becomes pure narm when he falls off the roof of the barn, does a triple backflip, and crashes dead in a haystack.invoked So the animals are now happy and cheerful, then they enter the farmhouse and find Major's butchered carcass in the kitchen (along with his severed head in a meat rack). The 1954 movie's first half was cheerful and somewhat comical, which makes Napoleon's regime all the more jarring.
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Good Is Impotent
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Good Is Impotent: While the book has good characters like Boxer, they are too weak-willed and easily manipulated to stop Napoleon's dictatorship. Benjamin, the one character who isn't fooled, is too lazy to do anything about it.
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Animated Adaptation
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Animated Adaptation: The 1954 film.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: In the novel, Napoleon and the pigs get everything they want and continue oppressing the other animals. No punishment at all. This changes in all the later adaptations.
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Red Eyes, Take Warning
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Red Eyes, Take Warning: In the animated film, the animals' eyes turn red and bloodshot with fury just before they chase Mr. Jones out of the farm for the first time.
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Odd Friendship
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Odd Friendship: Boxer is immensely strong, friendly, extremely trusting, but rather stupid. Benjamin is highly intelligent, extremely cynical, and rather cranky. They are best friends, and indeed it's implied that Boxer is the only animal Benjamin considers a friend. This becomes evident when Boxer is taken to the glue factory. He spends the majority of the scene frantically braying while trying in vain to save Boxer, and the book notes that after Boxer's death he becomes even more miserable than before.
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My Local
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My Local: Mr. Jones' pub is called The Red Lion, which is a real pub in the real village of Willingdon.
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No-Sell
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No-Sell: When the pigs are purging dissidents by ridding the farm of animals who are "proven" to be conspiring with Snowball, one of the ones targeted is Boxer. Fortunately, Boxer easily overpowers the attack dog ordered to rip out his throat by pinning it under his leg, only releasing him when Napoleon requests it.
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Chekhov's Skill
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Chekhov's Skill: Benjamin is the only non-pig on the farm who can read just like a human. Guess who finds out that Boxer's being sent to the knacker instead of the vet.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: In the 1954 film, when the animals rebel, the pigs seem to know very well what's coming to them, especially Napoleon. Mr. Jones in the same film, when he sees the red eyes of the animals and realizes they're much more organized than he thought before.
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Pyrrhic Victory
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Pyrrhic Victory: The Battle of the Windmill. While the animals successfully drive out Mr. Frederick and his henchmen, they suffer some pretty heavy losses (with Boxer taking a bullet to the leg in the 1954 film) and the windmill is destroyed. Napoleon and Squealer successfully downplay the "Pyrrhic" aspect to the other animals, however.
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Plagiarism in Fiction
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Plagiarism in Fiction: Snowball comes up with the idea to build a windmill. Napoleon steals it. What's worse, he makes things seem as though Snowball was the one who stole the idea, and before having Snowball exiled, he expresses displeasure in the concept; at one point, he even goes so far as to urinate on the plans.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Benjamin the donkey. When asked by the other animals whether or not he feels life has improved after the revolution, he says, "Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey."
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All for Nothing
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All for Nothing: Every version of the story contains some elements of this. The original version of the story has the animals overthrow Jones and escape tyranny, only for it to become a Full-Circle Revolution with the pigs on top, meaning the animals are still consistently oppressed. The 1954 and 1999 versions of the story change this to a Bittersweet Ending by reflecting the politics of the time — the former has the animals rise up and overthrow the pigs, while the latter has the pigs' revolution collapse in on itself. Even then, a lot of animals suffered and died, and with the farm in ruins from the pigs' tyranny, the rest of the animals have nothing to show for it.
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Face–Heel Turn
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Face–Heel Turn: Napoleon, as well as most of the other pigs, begin oppressing their fellow animals and become horrible villains. It could be argued, however, that Napoleon better fits Evil All Along. After all, he begins raising his army of dogs only a chapter after the revolution. This could indicate that he was planning to betray the revolution from the very beginning. The other pigs better fit this trope.
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Catchphrase
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Catchphrase: Boxer has two: "I will work harder" and "Napoleon is always right". Squealer: "You don't want Jones to come back, do you?" Benjamin: "Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey."
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No Historical Figures Were Harmed
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No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Being an allegory for the Russian Bolshevik uprising, several animals in the story serve as recognisable analogues to real-life figures to those who know the history and period. Napoleon was based on Josef Stalin, Snowball on Leon Trotsky, while Old Major is based on both Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. The four young pigs represent the Bolsheviks executed at the Moscow Trials for crimes they almost certainly didn't commit. Squealer is probably based on Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin's propaganda chief. Alternatively, he may simply represent the power of state propaganda in general. Boxer is based on Alexei Stakhanov, the coal miner whom the Communist Party promoted as a hero of Soviet labor for working harder than was required of him. Also, Pilkington has traits of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Frederick is based on Adolf Hitler. Farmer Jones essentially fills the role of Tsar Nicholas II.
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Everyone Has Standards
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Everyone Has Standards: Four of the pigs, who had no problem with hoarding the milk and apples, protest Snowball's expulsion and Napoleon's grab for power, and are executed for it. In the 1954 film, the crow that had watched the dogs kill Snowball is horrified enough to turn his head away as the dogs kill the other animals, showing how unnatural the killings were even to a bystander.
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Demoted to Extra
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Demoted to Extra: Mr. Frederick has a much smaller role in the 1999 film, with his attack on the windmill being given to Jones. He does get a small Adaptational Heroism, in which he is disgusted by the treatment of the animals under the pigs. Also in the 1999 movie, Clover's role as the point of view character is given to Jessie; Clover herself appears, but has no speaking lines and virtually zero focus. Both of these also ring true for the 1954 animated film.
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Diligent Draft Animal
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Diligent Draft Animal: Boxer the draft horse represents the working-class men of Russia during the rise of Communism. Despite Boxer's low intelligence, he's a hard worker and dismissive of the threats the pigs impose since he believes the other animals aren't working hard enough. Which makes it rather tragic that he's euthanised near the end of the story after overworking himself to a point of injury.
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Eunuchs Are Evil
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Eunuchs Are Evil: Squealer is a porker,note A male pig that has been gelded to make him less temperamental and to ensure he produces more meat. and serves as the mouthpiece for the rest of the pigs. Averted, however, with four other porkers who protest Napoleon's decision to give the pigs all the power and eventually get killed for it.
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Tyrant Takes the Helm
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Tyrant Takes the Helm: Napoleon plays it deadly straight by becoming the farm's new leader (after driving Snowball into exile) and becoming at least as bad as Mr. Jones.
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Fictional Flag
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Fictional Flag: Following the Rebellion, Snowball constructs a flag for the new animal-run nation out of a green tablecloth that once belonged to Mrs. Jones, painting a white hoof and horn on it to symbolize the supremacy of animals over humans. One of the final developments in the Full-Circle Revolution is the removal of the hoof and horn, making the flag solid green.
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Beam Me Up, Scotty!
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Beam Me Up, Scotty!: In-Universe — Boxer's motto "Napoleon is always right" is actually derived from "If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right."
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Really Gets Around
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Farmer Jones, who is presented as an Allegorical Character for the exploitative practices of capitalism and conservatism in his hold of the farm, but only relevant to the story for the first portion of the book.
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Fun with Acronyms: One of Orwell's suggested titles for its French translationinvoked was Union des républiques socialistes animales, which roughly acronyms as URSA — Latin for "bear", the symbol of Russia (not to mention referencing Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques, acronymed as URSS, which is the French equivalent to USSR).
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Irony: To Humans Are the Real Monsters entry above. By the end of the story, thanks to Napoleon, the pigs start emulating the very humans Old Major inspired them to overthrow.
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Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
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Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: One of the original Seven Commandments forbade animals to kill animals, conveniently discarded when Napoleon convinced the other animals that there were potential or actual pro-Snowball traitors in his midst, and began holding show trials.
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Can't Hold His Liquor: Squealer and Napoleon, when waking up the next morning after ending up completely plastered while rewriting the amendment that forbade alcohol to forbid drinking in excess (ironically) in the 1990s film, end up with an intense hangover with Napoleon and Squealer remarking that they're dying, showing why animals shouldn't drink alcohol, and thus leading to Napoleon's later paranoia.note This is a Truth in Television, as pigs really can't hold their liquor, or any alcohol for that matter.
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Nice Guy: Boxer. He's utterly loyal, honest to a fault, very hard-working, and always willing to help those in need even at the expense of his own health. The pigs exploit all of this ruthlessly.
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Internal Retcon: The real truth of the revolution keeps getting this treatment until no one really remembers the original facts except those smart enough to keep their mouth shut. The Seven Commandments in particular are stealthily amended on multiple occasions, before eventually being removed entirely and replaced with the slogan "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".
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Shout-Out: "I will work harder," Boxer's motto, was found in the mouth of Jurgis Rudkus from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
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One-Tract Mind: Many of Squealer's speeches end with the dire warning that "Jones will come back" if the animals do not obey whatever his latest diktat is.
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Retirony: Boxer was injured when he was due for retirement. He then ends up "sent to the vet." (He's actually being sent to the knackers.)
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Adaptational Karma: The pigs get what's coming to them in both film adaptations, either overthrown by the animals they'd oppressed for so long (1954) or seeing all their efforts come to nothing as the farm collapses around their ears (1999).
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The Power of Language: The pigs, especially Squealer, become skilled at reading and writing and use this power of literacy to exert control over the other animals on the farm. One of the most obvious ways is that the farm's laws are recorded in writing on the side of the barn: only the pigs can read them, so only the pigs can interpret them — or know when they have been subtly changed.
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Sinister Swine: Most of the pigs in the story are portrayed as greedy and hypocritical villains, especially after Napoleon takes the helm. The pigs usurp control over the titular farm because they were the only animals smart enough to do so, and begin to change the rules of the farm to their own benefit until eventually a Full-Circle Revolution ensues and the animals find that they can no longer tell the difference between the pigs and the humans. Snowball is generally considered to be the Token Good Teammate, but even he is a downplayed example of this trope, frequently being an Insufferable Genius; he even berates Boxer the horse for showing remorse after seemingly killing one of the humans.
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Bad People Abuse Animals
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Bad People Abuse Animals: Jones and his farmhands are cruel and neglectful towards the animals before they get driven out, and Mr. Frederick is rumored to outright torture his livestock.
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Hypocrite: The pigs, but especially Napoleon who hoards sugar for himself, not even sharing it with the other pigs, because it will make them fat. Even before Snowball is driven off, the pigs already hoard milk and apples for themselves.
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Unperson: Mollie is rendered into this after she flees the farm under Napoleon's rule and takes up with another human owner.
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"Ray of Hope" Ending: The ending implies that the animals are finally realizing that Napoleon is corrupt, so it's possible that they're going to do something about it.
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: No one seems to think it's weird that animals are running a farm by themselves, something that would most likely draw large crowds in real life. People even think the animals will just starve to death by themselves. Hell, no one seems bothered that they can TALK AND WRITE.
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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It's mentioned that the cat didn't show up to the meeting where Napoleon killed a bunch of the animals, so she probably ran away into the wild. As any cat owner can tell you, cats are smart.
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Appetite Equals Health
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Appetite Equals Health: When talking about Mollie’s irresponsibility, the book says, “she complained of mysterious pains, although her appetite was excellent.�
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The Scapegoat
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The Scapegoat: After being driven from the farm, Snowball is routinely blamed for anything that goes wrong. Eventually, Napoleon declares that some of the animals are traitors working for him and even that Snowball personally sneaks back in at night to commit acts of sabotage. In the same way, as the Soviet government's economic planning failed, Russia suffered under a surge of violence, fear, and starvation. Stalin used his former opponent Trotsky as a tool to placate the population, claiming Trotsky's followers were subverting and sabotaging the country. Trotsky became a common national enemy and a source of negative unity. He was a frightening specter used to conjure horrifying eventualities, in comparison with which the current misery paled.
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Totalitarian Utilitarian: The pigs start out like this. As the story progresses, some pigs are lost, while others are corrupted by their power (unless they were really Straw Hypocrites all along). By the end of the story, the remaining pigs have become what they once rebelled against.
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The Coup
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The Coup: Napoleon takes power this way, using his attack dogs to drive Snowball off the farm and then replacing the previously democratic governing methods with the top-down control of an unelected special committee of pigs led by himself.
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Animal Motifs
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Animal Motifs: The increasingly dictatorial and oppressive Communist Party of the Soviet Union is represented by an upper caste of pigs. Now, what animal are greedy capitalists commonly personified as? Consider also that the loudest voices of fawning subservience towards the pig regime are provided by the sheep.
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What was supposed to be a tragic moment in the live-action film, as Old Major dies getting accidentally shot in the head by Farmer Jones right before his cause is fulfilled, becomes pure narm when he falls off the roof of the barn, does a triple backflip, and crashes dead in a haystack.invoked
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Hate Sink: Farmer Jones, who is presented as an Allegorical Character for the exploitative practices of capitalism and conservatism in his hold of the farm, but only relevant to the story for the first portion of the book. It doesn't take long before Napoleon becomes this as well, given how he treats the other animals.
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Exact Words: When Clover questions Muriel about the animals violating one of the commandments (the one about sleeping on the beds), Muriel responds that the commandments just state that the animals shouldn't sleep in beds "with sheets".
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Lesser of Two Evils: Exploited by the pigs. "You don't want Jones to come back, do you?"
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Undying Loyalty
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Undying Loyalty: A cynical interpretation with Boxer, who represents Stalin's most dedicated and hardworking supporters in the proletariat (people like the Stakhanovites). His solution to any confusion is "Napoleon is always right" and his solution to any problem is working harder.
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Crowd Song: "Beasts of England" is one; its change to "Animal Farm" and later "Comrade Napoleon" reflects the change of Soviet anthem from "The Internationale" to the "Anthem of the Soviet Union", which itself reflected the change from socialist internationalism to Stalin's "socialism in one country". It's sung to a tune that is said to be a cross between "La Cucaracha" and "My Darling Clementine". Indeed, the lyrics fit with both tunes. However, the USSR didn't ban "The Internationale" like Animal Farm did "Beasts of England".
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Glad I Thought of It
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Glad I Thought of It: Napoleon appropriates Snowball's windmill idea after the latter's exile.
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Villainous Glutton: Napoleon, Squealer, and the rest of the pigs reserve all the milk and apples for themselves. This is their first sign of villainy. Eating the food their fellow animals have worked so hard to make is possibly the least awful thing they do.
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Wild Card Excuse
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Wild Card Excuse: Over time, any mishap or malfunction on the farm is credited to Snowball's interference.
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The Dog Bites Back
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The Dog Bites Back: In both the film adaptations. In the climax of the 1954 film, the animals engage in a Full-Circle Revolution of their own by overthrowing the pigs and taking back control of the farm. In the 1999 film, the animals just escape and leave the pigs to their fate, causing the farm to collapse without anyone to work on it. Also in the 1999 film, Jessie attacks farmer Jones and bites onto the wooden stick Jones was using trying to whip the other animals.
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Evil Is Petty
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Evil Is Petty: Napoleon expresses his contempt for Snowball by literally pissing on his windmill plans; an overall pointless, lowly, and spiteful act that does nothing but show what a downright rotten person Napoleon is.
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National Anthem / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Never Learned to Read / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Novella / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Obvious Rule Patch / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
One-Tract Mind / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Pawprint Stamping / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Pig Man / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Plot-Triggering Death / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Police Pig / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Pop Culture Urban Legends / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Propaganda Machine / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Randomly Reversed Letters / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Realism-Induced Horror / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Reign of Terror / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Released to Elsewhere / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Repressive, but Efficient / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Screw the Rules, I Make Them! / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Signature Line / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers! / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Sinister Swine / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Slave Race / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Sliding Scale of Animal Cast / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Snowball Lie / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Species Subversives / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Stock Animal Diet / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Stubborn Mule / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Suddenly Shouting / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Survival Mantra / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
The Commandments / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
The Horseshoe Effect / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
The One Who Made It Out / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
The Power of Language / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
The Promised Land / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
The Purge / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
The Quiet One / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
The Scapegoat / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Token Heroic Orc / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Totalitarian Utilitarian / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Transformation Horror / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Turned Against Their Masters / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Tyke-Bomb / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Tyrant Takes the Helm / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Unusual Animal Alliance / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
"Wanted!" Poster / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Weakness Is Just a State of Mind / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
What Measure Is a Non-Cute? / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Whip of Dominance / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Windmill Political / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
Working-Class People Are Morons / int_6fd4e61f
 Animal Farm
hasFeature
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness / int_6fd4e61f
 animalfarm
sameAs
Animal Farm