Major gathers the farm animals in the barn and delivers a passionate speech urging rebellion against humans.

Jones fires his gun into the farmyard to silence the animals, who scatter back to their sleeping places.

Major dies, but his teachings inspire the animals to begin secretly planning a rebellion against Jones.

The animals raid the store-shed for food and then drive Jones and his men off Manor Farm.

The animals destroy all whips and restraining devices and rename the property Animal Farm.

The pigs inscribe the Seven Commandments of Animalism on the barn wall in white paint.

Napoleon confiscates nine newborn puppies from their mothers and raises them in a secluded barn loft.

Jones and men from neighboring farms attack Animal Farm but are thoroughly defeated in the Battle of the Cowshed.

Napoleon releases his fully grown attack dogs, who chase Snowball permanently off Animal Farm.

Napoleon abolishes the Sunday meetings, forms a committee of pigs, and assumes total control of Animal Farm.

Napoleon institutes trade with neighboring human farms, hiring a human agent named Mr. Whymper.

A violent storm destroys the newly completed windmill overnight.

Napoleon has his dogs violently execute a group of animals who confess to conspiring with Snowball.

A van arrives to transport the collapsed Boxer away, and the horrified animals read 'Horse Slaughterer' on its side.

The pigs host a dinner party with neighboring human farmers, and the watching animals cannot tell pigs from humans.

Animal Farm follows a group of farm animals who, inspired by the elderly boar Major, overthrow their negligent owner Mr. Jones and take control of the farm. Two pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, emerge as rival leaders, but Napoleon uses secretly trained attack dogs to expel Snowball and seize complete power. Under Napoleon's dictatorship, the animals work in slave-like conditions while the pigs grow increasingly corrupt, crushing any resistance with brutal executions. Napoleon opens the farm to trade with the human world, and when the windmill is destroyed in a storm, Snowball is scapegoated as the culprit. The story ends with the pigs hosting a dinner party for neighboring human farmers, and the watching animals realize they can no longer tell the pigs apart from the humans.

The core events of Animal Farm's revolution and collapse.

Major teaches the assembled farm animals a rousing anthem called 'Beasts of England.'

Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer expand Major's ideas into a complete philosophy called Animalism.

The pigs quietly take the cows' fresh milk for themselves without informing the other animals.

Snowball fashions the Animal Farm flag from an old tablecloth, painting a white hoof and horn on green.

Squealer announces that pigs must have exclusive access to milk and apples to fuel their superior brainpower.

News of Animal Farm spreads via messenger pigeons, and animals on other farms begin to rebel in small ways.

Mollie vanishes from Animal Farm after being caught accepting ribbons and sugar from a human on a neighboring farm.

Snowball proposes building a windmill to generate electricity for the farm; Napoleon publicly opposes the plan.

Napoleon reverses his position and announces the animals will build the windmill after all.

The pig leaders move into the farmhouse to sleep in beds and alter the relevant commandment to justify it.

Napoleon forces the hens to surrender their eggs for sale; the hens protest and many die in the crackdown.

Napoleon abolishes the 'Beasts of England' anthem and replaces it with a simple loyalty song composed by a pig.

Napoleon sells a timber supply to Mr. Frederick, who then pays with a stack of counterfeit banknotes.

Animal Farm is proclaimed a Republic and Napoleon is unanimously elected its first president.

Napoleon removes the hoof and horn from the Animal Farm flag, leaving only a plain green field.

This pool traces the cultural and political machinery that drives Animal Farm from a hopeful revolution into a corrupt regime. The animals begin with inspiring symbols — the 'Beasts of England' song, the philosophy of Animalism, and the hoof-and-horn flag — that give their new society identity and purpose. Piece by piece, Napoleon dismantles these symbols: he reverses his own stated positions, crushes the hens' protest, abolishes the beloved anthem, and eventually strips the flag of its meaning. Trade with the human world, conducted through the agent Mr. Whymper, opens the door to deepening corruption, and Napoleon's disastrous timber deal with the treacherous Mr. Frederick demonstrates how far the farm has fallen. By the end, Napoleon has been elected president of a self-declared Republic and the last visible marker of the animals' revolution has been quietly erased.

The symbols, betrayals, and propaganda that built and broke Animal Farm.

After the rebellion, the animals agree to preserve the farmhouse as a museum rather than live in it.

Snowball proposes condensing the Seven Commandments into the single maxim 'Four legs good, two legs bad.'

Boxer becomes the hardest worker on the farm and adopts the personal motto 'I will work harder.'

Snowball studies a book about Julius Caesar's military tactics to plan the animals' defense of the farm.

Boxer is horrified to believe he has accidentally killed a stable boy during the Battle of the Cowshed.

Boxer adopts the motto 'Napoleon is always right,' cementing his blind loyalty to the new pig leader.

Squealer announces that Snowball secretly sabotaged the windmill and is responsible for its destruction in the storm.

Napoleon arranges the grain bins to look full when Whymper visits, deceiving him about the farm's prosperity.

Frederick and his men blow up the rebuilt windmill with gunpowder during their armed attack on the farm.

Napoleon and the pigs discover a cask of whiskey hidden in the farmhouse cellar and begin drinking.

Moses the raven reappears on Animal Farm after years away and resumes preaching about Sugarcandy Mountain.

Boxer collapses while hauling stones to the windmill site and is tenderly nursed by Clover and Benjamin.

The pigs begin walking upright on their hind legs and introduce the new slogan 'Four legs good, two legs better.'

Clover and Benjamin discover that the Seven Commandments on the barn wall have been reduced to a single statement declaring some animals more equal than others.

Napoleon announces that Animal Farm will be renamed Manor Farm, its original name under human ownership.

This pool focuses on the pivotal moments of decision, revelation, and moral collapse that shape Animal Farm's tragic arc. From the early hopeful choices made just after the rebellion — preserving the farmhouse as a museum, simplifying the commandments into a catchphrase — to the gradual discoveries that expose Napoleon's tyranny, each event marks a decisive shift in what the farm stands for. Characters like Boxer reveal their nature through the mottoes they adopt, while Squealer's lies and Napoleon's manipulation steadily erode any shared truth. The later events — whiskey discovered in the cellar, pigs walking upright, a single corrupted commandment replacing all seven — chart the complete moral inversion of the original revolution. By the end, the few animals who can still read find the truth written on the barn wall, but it is far too late to reclaim what Animal Farm once promised.

The key decisions, discoveries, and moral turning points that defined Animal Farm.