Animal Farm It is celebrated annually with the firing of a gun, on the anniversary of the Revolution. Napoleon and Snowball vie for pre-eminence. When Snowball announces his plans to modernize the farm by building a windmill, Napoleon has his dogs chase Snowball away and declares himself leader. Napoleon enacts changes to the governance structure of the farm, replacing meetings with a committee of pigs who will run the farm. Through a young pig named Squealer, Napoleon claims credit for the windmill idea. The animals work harder with the promise of easier lives with the windmill. When the animals find the windmill
Animal Farm (song) Animal Farm (song) "Animal Farm" is the first track on the second side of the Kinks' 1968 album, "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society". The track was written by the Kinks' main songwriter, Ray Davies. The lyrics of "Animal Farm" visit an escapism theme (one that would be returned to in "Apeman" and "Supersonic Rocket Ship"), with the singer wanting to flee to "where real animals are playing." He yearns "to be back there, among the cats and dogs and the pigs and the goats on Animal Farm, [his] animal home." The singer dreams of his girlfriend, "though