In this chapter the work gets a lot harder, becoming a lot more stressful for all of the animals besides the pigs, who again do no real work, but instead give out orders under the direction of Napoleon. Napoleon also hires a man to manage trading and other affairs with Animal Farm and other farms in the area. The animals are wary of this, but once again, the pigs have changed the rules so that they adhere to what they are currently doing. Snowball is still being used as the scapegoat in the scenarios that relate to their rule-bending. The accusations get even worse when Animal Farm experiences a large storm that seemingly tears down the windmill. Napoleon and the pigs use this as a another chance to completely turn the animals against Snowball and in their favor, and blame the destruction of the windmill completely on Snowball. They decided to rebuild the windmill as well.
So it is very obvious as this point that the pigs have completely taken over the farm and have the ability to manipulate and control the animals in any way they like. They use Snowball as their excuse for any failures, and the pigs still continue to live a comfortable lifestyle while the rest of the animals toil away. There is a lot of dramatic irony going on, because we can pretty much infer what the pigs are up to, but many of the animals remained brain washed, or if they do realize what is happening, they are too scared to retaliate. I think the situation can only get worse from here.
Good job at pointing out the dramatic irony in this part of the book. I took notice of that as well, but I'm glad to have a reading partner who can actually read between the lines. I do know the situation's going to be very bad since I just finished the book. I guess we could call some examples of events in this chapter forshadowing since we are able to predict what will happen from the context clues. Great job!
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