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What are five words that describe the change in the pigs in chapter five of Animal Farm?

The pigs are becoming more argumentative.  Snowball and Napoleon are in disagreement about almost everything.  Snowball wants to electrify the farm with a windmill.  He wants to do everything by committee, and Napoleon is more controlling and does not really care about the comfort of the farm animals.


Since the pigs are more argumentative, the animals are more divided.  For example, Molly wants luxuries like she had before such as ribbons and sugar.  The pigs and Clover do not approve.  Snowball’s ideas are favored by many animals on the farm, despite Napoleon’s objections.



The animals had never heard of anything of this kind before (for the farm was an old−fashioned one and had only the most primitive machinery), and they listened in astonishment while Snowball conjured up pictures of fantastic machines which would do their work for them while they grazed at their ease in the fields or improved their minds with reading and conversation. (Ch. 5) 



The animals also begin to be troubled by the events on the farm as the pigs become more authoritarian.  The best example of this is that in this chapter Snowball is finally run off.  The animals learn that Napoleon has his own secret police force of guard dogs.  He is willing to enforce his will. 



In spite of the shock that Snowball's expulsion had given them, the animals were dismayed by this announcement. Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments. Even Boxer was vaguely troubled. (Ch. 5) 



The pigs are also becoming more and more deceptive.  Much of what they tell the animals at this point is a blatant lie.  They claim that Snowball was in league with humans, and that if the animals do not listen to the pigs then Jones will come back.  Naturally the animals do not want that, so they listen to the pigs.  They are not sure what to believe anymore. 


The pigs also become forward-thinking at this point.  A committee of pigs works on “Napoleon’s” plan to build the windmill, and they tell the animals that the windmill will take two years.  This is just a way to keep all of the animals busy, but they do not realize it at the time.  The animals believe Squealer and Napoleon.

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