Animals would engage in trade with humans – to obtain essential materials. The pigs moved into the farmhouse – no animal should live in the farmhouse – the pigs felt they needed a quiet place/suited dignity of their leader Napoleon.
Q. Why did the pigs say they had to move into the house Animal Farm?
In reality, the pigs are moving into the farmhouse because they want to live in a more comfortable environment but want it to appear like a necessary move, not a selfish one. In the longer-term, however, this move separates the pigs from the other animals, making their rise to absolute power an inevitability.
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Q. Why do the animals go into the farmhouse?
What do the animals do to the farmhouse? They all file through the house looking at all the luxuries. Some hams are taken out and buried, and a barrel of beer is destroyed. The animals agree that the farmhouse is to be preserved as a museum and that no animal may ever live there.
Q. Who moved into the farmhouse unexpectedly?
Pilkington of Foxwood or with Mr. Frederick of Pinchfield–but never, it was noticed, with both simultaneously. It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there.
Q. Who did Boxer blame for the executions?
Whom did Boxer blame for the executions? What was his solution? Boxer still trusts Napoleon, so although his mind is troubled, he believes the fault must lie in the animals themselves.
Q. Why is Benjamin cynical?
He is very cynical about the Revolution and life in general. It has also been argued that he represents the skeptical people who believed that Communism would not help the people of Russia, but who did not criticize it fervently enough to lose their lives.
Q. Why were the pigs chosen to be the leaders?
The pigs are chosenas leaders because they know how to read. The pigs don’t help at all with the work- they just supervise. The first commandment they break is sleeping in beds, but they break many others. Since they are leaders, no one questions them.
