Novel Animal Farm chapter one

 CHAPTER 1

     After Mr. Jones, the drunken owner of Manor Farm, has staggered up to bed, Old Major, the aged and respected prize boar, leads a meeting attended by all the animals on the Farm.

Major describes the lives, “miserable, laborious and short," of the animals. The land itself, he insists, could support them. The cause of their misery is man's greed. Man steals what the animals produce, and as soon as an individual animal's usefulness comes to an end, he is cruelly slaughtered.

Man is animalkind's only enemy, says Major. If they expelled man, they would gain their freedom and comfort. He urges the animals to revolt but adds that they should not adopt man's evil habits when they are free: they should have nothing at all to do with man. He states that all animals are equal and concludes by telling them of a dream he had had of a song, called "Beasts of England," which describes the ideal society of the future. The animals are excited by the vision and learn this song, which so pleases them that they sing it over and over again, until they awake Mr. Jones. The meeting hurriedly ends as the farmer turns his shotgun on the barn wall, where he believes a fox to be attacking his animals.

Passage 1

I have had a long life, I have had much time for thought as 1 lay alone in my stall, and I think I may say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal non living. It is about this that I wish to speak to on.

What does the Speaker want to convey to other animals?

Passage 2

It is summed up in a single word-Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.

What is the Speaker's intention here?