The pigs begin to walk on hind legs, carrying a whip, and eventually wearing clothes. The sheep begin to bleat "Four legs good, two legs better!" The wall has been repainted to "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL / BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS."
Later, the neighboring farmers are given a tour, and stayed for dinner. Mr. Pilkington makes a toast to Animal Farm and its efficiency. Napoleon outlined new policies, with use of comrade suppressed, cancellation of meetings, burial of Old Major’s skull and removal of farm flag designs as well as the use of the name Manor Farm. Then, the men and pigs begin playing cards. It was impossible to discriminate between the humans and the pigs.
Analysis
This final chapter depicts the complete transformation of Animal Farm into Manor Farm. The completion of the windmill marks a linking of animals and humans, its symbolic meaning was reversed and corrupted as it was used for money just like everything else. The farm is inexorably tied to human in term of commerce, such that the pigs come to resemble the human oppressors to the degree that "it was impossible to say which was which."
Orwell used “years pass” to stress that the animals' lacks sense of history causing the incapability of judging present situation, thus do not complain their awful lives, since "they had nothing to go upon except Squealer's lists of figures, which invariably demonstrate that everything was getting better and better." The animals cannot recall the different from the present life and the past, therefore they could not compare.
The pigs have won their ideological battle, as the Party wins its war with Winston's mind at the end of Nineteen-Eight-Four. Only Benjamin by which Orwell use to voice his own opinion is able to conclude that "hunger, hardship, and disappointment" are the