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   1. Ch.1 Old Major tells the animals, "never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others." But the novel ends thus, "no question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." The pigs have betrayed the  other animals on the farm by joining hands with the human beings. 

   2. In Ch1. Old Major tells the animals, "and, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind." But in Ch10 the pigs begin to walk on two legs carrying whips to tyrannize over the other animals:"After that it did not seem strange when next day the pigs who were supervising the work of the farm all carried whips in their trotters."

   3.  In Ch1 Old Major advises the animals, "only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own." But in Ch10 Napoleon strikes a deal with Pilkington and the two become partners: "he (Pilkington) would end his remarks, he said, by emphasising once again the friendly feelings that subsisted, and ought to subsist, between Animal Farm and its neighbours. Between pigs and human beings there was not, and there need not be, any clash of interests whatever." 

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   Posted by lit24 on Wednesday December 31, 2008 at 11:43 PM