Wednesday, October 7, 2009

In what ways are the animals of Animal Farm building a new society?

I thought
that, at first, they do have somewhat of a new society. By getting rid of Jones, they controlled
all the means of production: they had to contend with maintaining their capital - which caused
problems. Jones had been the provider for that capital, but the animals felt they could do just
as well themselves. Until the feud betweenandand until the 1st windmill disaster, the animals
seemed to be doing alright as a commune: raising their own crops, and essentially taking care of
themselves. But the pigs created a division and got greedy, and started to see that this greed
would rely on outside capital and harsher working conditions for the animals. This meant
alliances with other corrupt farmers (Frederick) and basic enslavement of...

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