But there were also rumours of something more serious. On every kind of pretext she would run away from work and go to the drinking pool, where she would stand foolishly gazing at her own reflection in the water. She was late for work every morning and excused herself by saying that she had overslept, and she complained of mysterious pains, although her appetite was excellent. After that, Frederick disappears from the story-and good riddance.Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell (Chapter 5)Īs winter drew on, Mollie became more and more troublesome. (Quick Brain Snack: fighting in Western Europe was on the Western Front fighting in Eastern Europe was fighting on the… wait for it… Eastern Front.) Frederick and his men advance and blow up the windmill, but the animals end up driving them out. In Animal Farm, the Battle of the Windmill is a miniature version of this war on the Eastern Front. By December of 1942, German troops were within 20 miles of Moscow-and only a heroic (and bloody) effort by the Soviet Red Army finally pushed them back. In 1941, Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, a massive surprise attack into Soviet territory. The prospect of a united Germany and Soviet Union… well, let's just say that more than one British official probably had to change his pants when he found out about that.īut the Nazi-Soviet agreement didn't last. didn't enter the war until December 1941. Through most of 19, Britain was fighting Germany in World War II all by its lonesome, since France had crumbled in June 1940 and the U.S.
This whole alliance thing between Stalin and Hitler really got Great Britain feeling nervous. (Too bad for the poor people of Eastern Europe, now doomed to domination by one totalitarian regime or the other.) Pilkington.) The pact allowed former bitter enemies Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany to slice up Eastern Europe into spheres of influence. (For more on why Stalin should have hated Hitler, check out our "Character Analysis" for Mr. The whole timber debacle is a stand-in for Stalin's non-aggression pact with Hitler, signed in 1941. Frederick, Stalin's Russia, and World War II Whymper comes running back to tell Napoleon, "The bank-notes were forgeries! Frederick had got the timber for nothing!" (8.14). But Frederick has a trick up his sleeve: Mr. The reason (according to Squealer)? He was playing the two farmers off each other to drive up the price.
After he promises it to Pilkington, however, he does a switcheroo and decides to sell it to Frederick, instead. Inter-farm relations are frosty for much of the story, and one of Squealer's jobs is to spread the rumor that Snowball is conspiring against Animal Farm with Frederick.Īnd then there's a surprise twist. Also unsurprisingly, the pigs don't get along to well with him. Unsurprisingly, the animals on Frederick's farm never rebel. Jones: he's "a tough, shrewd man, perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for driving hard bargains" (4.2).Īt first, Frederick is a little worried that the Rebellion will spread to other farms, so he goes on the attack by spreading rumors that the "animals there practiced cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common" (4.3). He may be a human farmer, but he's no drunk idiot like Mr. Frederick owns the neighboring farm of Pinchfield.
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