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	Battle of the Windmill (Animal Farm) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of the Windmill is a fictional battle in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell.
		For two years, the animals of Animal Farm worked to construct a windmill that would help with their work.
		The animals realized that they couldn't win like they did at the Battle of the Cowshed: there were more men and half had firearms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Windmill_(Animal_Farm) (279 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Animal Farm by George Orwell
		Led by two of the farm's pigs, Napoleon and Snowball (for the pigs soon prove the cleverest of all the animals on the farm), the animals mount a successful attack, rid themselves of Jones and his human counterparts, and take control of the farm.
		Under the leadership of the pigs, farm labor is organized and divided among the animals, and a list of seven commandments is established - deemed unalterable - under which all animals on the farm would adhere.
		Animal Farm is replete with subtle and not so-subtle lessons on blind conformity and the misuse of power.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/animal_farm1.asp (1490 words)

	NovelGuide: Animal Farm: Metaphor Analysis
		Animalism: The vague yet often referred to concept of animalism is used by Orwell to signify the generic view of socialism.
		The nationalism the animals' feel is demonstrated through their daily processions and rituals where they practically worship the flag (their institution of the state and obviously not God).
		Battle of Cowshed: The Battle of Cowshed is a clear metaphor for the overthrow of the old Russian government based on czars (Mr.
	www.novelguide.com /animalfarm/metaphoranalysis.html (1191 words)

	Free Essay Overview of Animal Farm
		The dead animals were buried in the orchard next to old Major and it was decided to shoot the gun twice a year-once on October the twelfth, the anniversary of the Battle of the Cowshed, and once on the Midsummer Day, the anniversary of the Rebellion.
		The final battle between the animals and the men took place several years after the “Battle of the cowshed.” The animals were at breakfast when the attack came (93).
		The food storage-shed, the Battle of the Cowshed, and the Battle of the Windmill, were all battles fought by the animals against the humans.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=26956 (1236 words)

	PlanetPapers - Animal Farm: Strong vs Weak
		One of the conflicts in Animal Farm is the strong against the weak.
		What satisfied his pleasure is what took precedence over everything-the animals, honesty, commandments, etc. He gave himself the credit for every good thing, without any recognition to the other animals, such as the building of the windmill, and the victory of the Battle of the Windmill.
		In addition, he is the one that completely transformed the farm into the same or worse way it was in the hands of Man. He made the pigs mimic Man: adopted all its bad habits which were against the animals, with the exception of the pigs.
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	The Characters of Animal Farm - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Animal Farm skips the short rule of Lenin, and has Napoleon leading the farm from the beginning of the revolution.
		In the morning the animals came out of their stalls to find that the flagstaff had been blown down and an elm tree at the foot of the orchard had been plucked up like a radish.
		Battle of the Windmill - Battle of Stalingrad - German Invasion of Russia During WWII.
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	Free Essays on Animal Farm - Stalinism
		Animal Farm is a satirical beast fable which has been heralded as Orwell's lightest, gayest work(Brander 126).
		Animal Farm has also been known as a an entertaining, witty tale of a farm whose oppressed animals, capable of speech and reason, overcome a cruel master and set up a revolutionary government(Meyers 103).
		Frederick of Pinchfield is the animal equivalent of the short-lived Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact of 1939(Gardner 105).
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	Animal Farm - Free Essays - Animal Farm
		Animal Farm is a satirical beast fable, which has been heralded as Orwell's lightest, gayest work.
		Animal Farm has also been known as a an entertaining, witty tale of a farm whose oppressed animals, capable of speech and reason, overcome a cruel master and set up a revolutionary government.
		Frederick of Pinchfield is the animal equivalent of the short-lived Nazi-Soviet none aggression pact of 1939.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=13919 (1353 words)

	Amazon.com: Animal Farm: Books: George Orwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Orwell ingeniously contextualizes the twice conversion of Manor Farm to imply the inauguration of Animal Farm and its downfall.
		In Animal Farm, the pigs, who are considered as the cleverest animal in the farm, particularly Napoleon, who represents a totalitarian, has strong leadership, but he goes to depravity because of abusing power.
		Animal Farm is Orwell's allegorical satire based upon the USSR during the era and events surrounding WWII.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0151072558?v=glance (3649 words)

	Animal Farm
		The original idea the animals had about the animal farm was a good one but, as Fangda and a few other people have said, once you are in power it is hard to not take advantage (not necessarily to that extent but take advantage none the less).
		In Animal Farm, other than the obvious things, there is the days when they shoot the rifle, in remembrance of the Battle of the Windmill, the formation of the rebellion, and Napoleon added his birthday into it.
		Essentially, Animal Farm may be part of a vicious circle which simply repeats itself again and again and again- animals are unhappy with the state of society, overthrow the government through much hardship and again some clever animal will take advantage of the others and live like royalty.
	gspsanimalfarm.blogspot.com (4850 words)

	Animal Farm - Give a detailed account of the two attempts to build the windmill and explain why each attempt ends in ...
		Animal Farm - Give a detailed account of the two attempts to build the windmill and explain why each attempt ends in disaster.
		Throughout the year, the animals worked twice as hard as before as they had to finish a windmill with walls twice as thick as before and to finish it by an appointed date.
		This time, the animals were afraid to fight as there were fifteen men and half a dozen guns between them.
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	Event Metaphors
		In Animal Farm, Napoleon sells a pile of timber to Frederick and demands "real five-pound notes." The notes are paid and the timber is quickly carted away.
		Battle of the Cowshed: the anti-Communist invasion of Russia in 1918-1919.
		Battle of the Windmill: the German invasion of 1941.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi/nameless/metaphors.html (755 words)

	Global Teen.net: Real Teens \| Real Issues \| Real Politics - Animal Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered.
		The animals had assumed as a matter of course that these would be shared out equally; one day, however, the order went forth that all the windfalls were to be collected and brought to the harness-room for the use of the pigs.
		Most of Animal Farm was within their view - the long pasture stretching down to the main road, the hayfield, the spinney, the drinking pool, the ploughed fields where the young wheat was thick and green, and the red roofs of the farm buildings with the smoke curling from the chimneys.
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	Free Barron's BookNotes for Animal Farm - A Step Beyond-Free Literature Summaries/Booknotes from PinkMonkey.com
		As for inequality, the proles in 1984 bear a curious and disturbing resemblance to the animals in Animal Farm.
		It misses the political point of Animal Farm: at the end of the book the old slaves are slaves again, despite their Rebellion, and will remain so indefinitely.
		Most of his sympathy is for the common people (the animals), which would put him in the camp of the Left (and of course this view is supported by the rest of his work).
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/barrons/anifarm4.asp (2411 words)

	aftest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first battle between the humans and the animals came to be known as the
		The animals placed great faith 'in their leader, Napoleon, and thought that what he did was right.
		If an animal did not conform to the rules of Animal Farm, its life was in danger.
	www.teachnlearn.org /aftest.htm (833 words)

	Orwell - Animal Farm - on the novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A simplification of (animal / human) action involves an exaggeration of certain aspects of it: the animal fable tends to be serious / funny / stern / humorous.
		(1) 'Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole.' (George Orwell, 'Why I write').
		(7) Examine the role of the sheep in Animal Farm.
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	SparkNotes: Animal Farm: Plot Overview
		He tells the animals that they must work toward such a paradise and teaches them a song called “Beasts of England,” in which his dream vision is lyrically described.
		Jones reappears to take back his farm, the animals defeat him again, in what comes to be known as the Battle of the Cowshed, and take the farmer’s abandoned gun as a token of their victory.
		Eventually, the seven principles of Animalism, known as the Seven Commandments and inscribed on the side of the barn, become reduced to a single principle reading “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Napoleon entertains a human farmer named Mr.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/animalfarm/summary.html (851 words)

	Animal Farm
		Animal Farm is based, of course, on the classic George Orwell novel, which candidly illustrates the corruptive nature of absolute power and charts the terrible rise of fascism in the microcosm of a farmyard barn.
		Animal Farm is my first experience of Harvey's work on disc, and if this is anything to go by, I guarantee I will be adding more of his titles to my collection very shortly.
		Animal Farm is an intelligent, beautiful, highly enjoyable work which bears a certain touch of class and orchestral ingenuity rarely found in scores written for television, and I recommend it wholeheartedly and without reservation.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /anfarmcd.htm (918 words)

	Animal Farm by George Orwell: Summary Chp. 8
		In the ensuing explosion, the windmill is obliterated.
		The animals react to this by forgetting all about the guns and charging headlong at the men, who after a brief struggle, run for their lives.
		The animals are dejected at the loss of the windmill, but the pigs quickly set about the task of rebuilding morale by reminding them of the magnificent victory they have won.
	www.online-literature.com /orwell/animalfarm/18 (631 words)

	Animal Farm (book)
		The Battle of the Windmill: Afterwards a decoration is created by Napoleon called: The Order of the Green Banner.
		The first flag was the flag of Animal Farm, and was apparently used by the republic as well.
		It's not mentioned whether in later years the green banner may have been used by other animals than the ones mentioned, but after the early summer of the eight year of the narrative it might no longer have been deemed politically correct, as it is based on the old flag, and uses the address "comrade".
	www.fotw.net /flags/fic_anfa.html (362 words)

	Animal Farm by George Orwell: Chapter 8
		The animals' blood boiled with rage when they heard of these things beingdone to their comrades, and sometimes they clamoured to be allowed to go out in a body and attack Pinchfield Farm, drive out the humans, and set the animals free.
		The animals now also learned that Snowball had never-as many of them had believed hitherto-received the order of "Animal Hero7 First Class." This was merely a legend which had been spread some time after the Battle of the Cowshed by Snowball himself.
		But when the animals saw the green flag flying, and heard the gun firing again-seven times it was fired in all-and heard the speech that Napoleon made, congratulating them on their conduct, it did seem to them after all that they had won a great victory.
	www.online-literature.com /orwell/animalfarm/8 (3675 words)

	Animal Farm
		The second battle with the humans is called the ____.
		(A) Battle of the Windmill; (B) Battle of Animal Farm; (C) Battle of Manor Farm.
		After the Battle of the Cowshed, the Animal Hero, First Class medal is awarded to ____.
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	NovelGuide: Animal Farm: Novel Summary: Chapter 8
		And to further distance the animals from their ties of respect and admiration for Snowball, Napoleon (with help from Squealer no doubt) tells them that really Snowball was no hero at the Battle of Cowshed, but in fact a coward who ran away from the danger.
		Somehow this battle doesn't seem quite as magical as the last one, but nonetheless, the Battle of the Windmill is still called a victory.
		Orwell goes on to say, "It was a few days later than this that the pigs came upon a case of whisky in the cellars of the farmhouse." And surprise, surprise, Napoleon suddenly becomes "sick" and is said to be dying.
	www.novelguide.com /animalfarm/summaries/chap8.html (427 words)

	Animal Farm character assessment - Boxer.
		Below is a short sample of the essay "Animal Farm character assessment - Boxer.".
		For the first time, Boxer argues with Squealer for the honour of Snowball, "Snowball fought bravely at the Battle of the Cowshed." They kept on arguing, but as Squealer knows Boxer so well he mentions that Napoleon said it and that was how the conversation ended.
		In the 'Battle of the Windmill' he is mentioned and again shows how much Napoleon needs Boxer to control the animals, "and in spite of the
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		After Napoleon takes control of the farm, how does life for the animals compare to the life that they led under Mr.
		Napoleon declares a great victory in the Battle of the Windmill.
		What began as a paradise for the animals has now ended as the opposite of perfection.
	www.digisys.net /vanopst/Literature/~WRL2397.tmp (561 words)

	Animal Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Freshman English will be reading the novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell, during the months of March and April.
		An Animal Farm packet (100 pts) will be prepared during the time the novel is read.
		Is the society of Animal Farm a classless one?
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	Animal Farm Chapter IX Summary and Analysis
		Boxer, injured in the Battle of the Windmill, refuses to take even a day off from work.
		Boxer’s hope is that he can see the windmill well under way before his retirement.
		Although when the Rebellion first occurred there were plans to retire the animals, as yet, no animal had actually retired.
	www.enotes.com /animal/30043 (133 words)

	Welcome to the Animal Farm web page
		German invasion of 1941 – This was written at time of invasion by a Soviet Foreign Minister.
		similarities between this battle and the struggle to overthrow the Czars of Russia.
		The Five-Year Plans – Compare the first of Stalin’s five-year plan with Napoleon’s plan to build the windmill.
	home.globaleyes.net /plmarsh/freshman/animalfarm.htm (313 words)

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