Comment on Chapter 5

This chapter starts with the scene, where Mollie shows as a traidor to the concept of Animalism: she hasn´t worked as a team on respect of the work on the farm and it was found that she had been accepting ribbons and sugar from one of the men on the farm nextdoor. This was seen as treason. Compare with the real world, it could have symbolize, wheather the ones that didn´t agreed with the system applied or prefered going back to the old system. In other words the deserters/defectors (the ones who left war)

It returns to the conflict of power, in here is presented between Napoleon and Snowball. The ambition for preserving it and being the one at the power makes them enter in constant argues. As saw on class, we distinguished that they represented to Stalin and Trotsky, respectively. According to Animal Farm, on one hand Napoleon presents a more focus view in what his plans are, he is centered. In the other hand, Snowball thinks on a  bigger scale, his plan of building the windmill will take more time and effort, but it would give a great product. 

Napoleon by his desire of ambition, uses not clean techniques to beat his opponent by bunished him away. He uses the dogs he took away from chapters before, now they give fruits by using them as killing weapons against his enemies or obstacles to get the power. Is then where the figure of Squealers comes out. What he does, as he did before is to manipulate things, using propanganda, to achieve his purpose: mantain the pigs as the superior animals. He converts the action of Napoleon of getting rid of Snowball in an act of sacrifice to himself. Squealer uses the revolutionary spirit to join once again the animals, he emphasizes how cruel was the life with Mr. Jones and now everything is like it is beacuse of pigs. On the russian revolution there where the (gestapo?) like a police who where in charge of the deserters, here on Animal Farm can be allegorize with the prescence of the dogs, that Napoleon is in charge of.