Chapter 3 Summary Animal Farm

By David Villacorta

Here we clearly see how the animals start to see signs that the way things are ran aren’t for the best of their interest, but thanks to the dialectic of the pig leaders they are persuaded to remain doing the same for the “collective good”. The two main pigs who are also the leaders of the whole group start to antagonize with each other. The animals also start to learn how the humans worked to harvest the land. All the animals struggle to learn how to read and write with little success. Only the donkey remains skeptical, thinking it is all the same as it was with the farmer.

This entire chapter parallels with the Russian revolution of 1917. The animals are starting to organize and the leaders begin to separate to create their animal “politburo”. The antagonism of the pigs was the one between Stalin and Trotsky, who couldn’t agree in the ways the revolution was to be led.  I also can distinguish how the little utopia isn’t as perfect as everyone hoped to be and most of them have to be reeducated into the new way of life. It isn’t easy for the animals since they have to continue working to maintain the farm running. The animals represent the people in the communist world where they had to carry the weight of production and dynamo of the country.