Question 4

What is the climax of this novel? What happens? How do the events of this novel make you feel?

Every story has a pattern of beginning, rising action, climax, falling action, and then resolution. For that reason being, the novel ‘Animal Farm’ also has those different parts in the story.
The climax of the story is when Snowball was expelled from the Animal Farm, because he was wrongly accused, and became a traitor supposedly receiving a death sentence when captured alive. From the point Snowball had been expelled from the Animal Farm, Napoleon, the other leader pig representing the Animal Farm, becomes in charge and gained power by using his trained fierce dogs. Ironically, his refusals to all of the plans that Snowball had came up with had changed to approvals and begins to proceed those plans, for example, the windmill construction was strongly opposed by Napoleon yet he decides to build it after Snowball had been expelled. During the construction of the windmills, the pigs became lazy and had conferred many privileges upon themselves. Unfortunately, the beginning of the corruption of the Animal Farm and Animalism, which is a principle of all the animals being equal to one another, is the climax since from that point everything that everyone in the Animal Farm had worked for, devoted for, and even risked their lives for had begun to corrupt.
Personally, I find these events very sad and futile because the efforts that had been put into this situation and freedom simply became pointless. I also find the actions of Napoleon extremely ironic because he had begun what he opposed and the freedom he had been urging and emphasizing was never achieved as he took away the freedom of all of the animals himself.