Submitted by Prize_Effort_4478 t3_zraku3 in books
1.Do you think snowball really came back to Animal Farm to harass other animals after being expelled by Napoleon?
2.About those executed animals. Do you think the guilt they confessed are real?
For 1st question, I think snowball disappeared for good and never came back to Animal Farm to conspire with other animals.
For 2nd question, I think the author never suggested in the book that these executed animals really did those crimes or their confessions are made under duress.
My theory is that, Napoleon persuade those animals in private to admit their crimes honestly and they would be spared(although this part was not mentioned in the book). But at the meeting, when these animals confessed, Napoleon went back his words and executed all the guilty animals, and made the examples for other animals not to overthrow Napoleon's regime.
OneLongjumping4022 t1_j12jplh wrote
I think what you're missing is the historic human context. If you had the historic background, you would be able to connect the specific animals to the events Orwell was referencing. It's literally human history.