Animal Farm

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Animal Farm: Chapter I Summary and Analysis


New Characters:
Mr. Jones: the owner and operator of the Manor Farm

Old Major: prize Middle White boar and founder of Animalism
Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher: farm dogs

Boxer: a horse who is the hardest worker on the farm

Clover: a stout motherly mare

Muriel: a white goat

Benjamin: an ill-tempered, taciturn donkey who is the oldest animal on the farm

Mollie: foolish white mare who pulled Jones’s cart

Moses: the tame raven, Mr. Jones’s special pet and spy

Summary
After Mr. Jones locks the henhouse...

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