One of the commandments has been changed again, and the animals are quickly convinced that it was always that way. The commandment reads “No animal shall kill another animal without cause”. Napoleon takes many titles, becoming more officially the ruler of the animals. In trying to sell the timber with the two neighboring farmlands the animals are convinced that whichever neighboring farm is unlike at the time is the hiding place of snowball and the enemy of the animals. Mr. Frederick pays for the timber, but with forgeries. He eventually attacks the farm, blowing up the just completed windmill and killing many of the animals. The pigs start drinking and change another commandment to “no animal shall drink to excess”.
Boxer is heavily injured and the animals set out start the windmill over, at the same time the rations that are handed out are lowered once again. Animal Farm is decided by the English government to be an official republic, and Napoleon is elected the leader. Moses returns to keep preaching, and Boxer collapses, and is sent to the “hospital” but is in reality sold for supplemental income of the pigs.
The windmill is finally complete, after many years and many of the original animals have died. Instead of electricity, however, the windmill is used to grind corn to make more profits. The animals find Squealer and Napoleon walking on hind legs, and Napoleon carries a whip. The barn commandments are reduced to only one “all animals are equal… But some animals are more equal than others”. Animal Farm is once again Manor Farm, and in the final scene when the pigs and humans are playing card games, the other animals can no longer tell the pigs from the humans.
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