Although the animals have been dreaming, and in some cases
            actively planning for revolution and the idealistic future outlined by the visionary
            Major, when the time comes their rebellion happens quite spontaneously. The
            precipitating factor is when Mr Jones takes to drinking heavily and he and his men
            grossly neglect the farm as a result. The animals are left unfed, the cows unmilked, and
            soon they can take it no longer. One of the cows is the first to break out of her stall
            and then the animals rally together, bearing down on Mr Jones and running him and the
            other men off the farm and breaking into the foodstores to feed themselves. When it is
            over they realize the momentous event that has just taken
            place:
And so,
almost before they knew what was happening, the Rebellion had been successfully carried
through: Jones was expelled, and the Manor Farm was
theirs.
The actual uprising
            itself therefore did not really take any planning after all; it occurs as the natural
            consequence of unbearable hunger and privation.
At first,
            the animals are overcome with sheer delight when they realize that the farm is now
            theirs and that they are in control of their own destiny. Sadly, though, the pigs will
            take over everything to the extent that the other animals (except the dogs, who act as
            the pigs' bodyguards) will eventually be reduced to the same level of servitude and
            suffering as under Mr Jones; probably even worse.
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