Chapter 32 Chapter Thirty: The Flourishing Scene of the Farm

Compared with the past, the farm is now showing a thriving scene, and everything is more orderly.They acquired two more lands from Pilkington, and the acreage was enlarged still further.The windmill was finally built, so a threshing machine and a hay stacker have been added to the farm.In addition, many new houses were built.Whymper also bought himself a small buggy.However, the built windmill was not used to generate electricity, it was only used to drive the rice mill.This brought a great deal of income to the farm.The animals began to toil again, building the second windmill.It is said that once the windmill is built, a generator set will be installed.Snowball once told the animals to dream of a very comfortable life: installing electric lights, hot and cold water installations in the houses, and working three days a week. Now this dream is no longer talked about.Napoleon accused such thinking of departing from the spirit of animalism.True happiness, said Napoleon, lies in hard work and a simple life.

For some reason, although the farm seems to be getting richer, the lives of the animals are not getting richer at all.Of course, pigs and dogs are exceptions.Perhaps this is partly due to the sheer number of pigs and dogs.That's not to say that these two groups of animals don't work -- don't work in their own way.As Squealer never tires of explaining, the supervision and organization of the farm is endless, and most of it is of a kind beyond the understanding of the other animals for want of knowledge.Squealer had given some examples to the animals.For example, a lot of pigs' daily labor is used to deal with some mysterious affairs such as "files", "reports", "meeting minutes", "memorandums" and so on.These things are very large pages of paper, which need to be filled with densely packed words.When the words are filled, they are immediately burned in the furnace.Such things, said Squealer, were of the utmost importance to the welfare of the farm.Having said that, it is a fact that pigs and dogs do not take part in the labor of producing food, yet they are so numerous and their appetites are always so good.

As for the other animals, they knew for themselves that life was going on the same way, not improving at all.They are almost perpetually hungry and still sleep on straw at night.They drink from ponds and work in the fields.They suffer from cold in winter and mosquitoes and flies in summer.A few of the older animals sometimes racked their brains, trying desperately to recall something from their vague memories, trying to figure out whether life was better or worse when Jones was first driven out of the first rebellion than it is now.But they can't remember anything.They can think of nothing with which to compare their present life.They had no other evidence than Squealer's string of figures which all proved that things were getting better.So the animals found that they couldn't solve this problem.Besides, they don't have time to think about such issues now.Only old Benjamin claimed that he could remember every little thing in his long life, and he knew that life was not much better or worse than it is now.In the same way, the future life will not be too good, nor will it be too bad.He believed that hunger, toil, and disappointment were the unchanging laws of life.

Even so, the animals are always hopeful.More importantly, as members of Animal Farm, they never lost the sense of honor and superiority that this status brought them.This is the only farm in the country - in the entire British Isles - that is owned and managed by animals.Not one animal, not even the youngest, or the newcomers brought in from within ten or twenty miles, did not think that it was nothing short of a miracle.When they heard the salute and saw their green flag fluttering on the top of the flagpole, their hearts were filled with irrepressible pride.So the conversation always turned to the heroic age of the past, how Jones was driven out of the field, how the "Seven Commandments" was inscribed on the wall, and the great battle when the human invaders were defeated, and so on.These glorious old dreams will always be cherished in their hearts.The old colonel once predicted that an animal republic would be established in the future, and the green fields of Britain would no longer be trampled by humans.The animals still believed in this prophecy.That day will surely come.Maybe it won't come too soon, maybe they won't see it in their lifetime, but it's coming.Even the "Beasts of England" may be sung secretly here and there, for every animal on the farm is familiar with the song, which is true, though none of the animals now dares to sing it aloud .Animals' lives may be very difficult, and their hopes may not be fully realized, but they still feel different from other animals.If they are hungry, it is not because cruel humans have taken their rations; if they work too hard, at least they are for themselves.None of them walk on two legs.No animal calls another animal "Master".All animals are equal.