Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Pilkington
Pilkington represents the western allies of Britain and the United States, Stalin after being invaded by Hitler looked to the western allies for help. He has been specifically linked to Winston Churchill. His description on page 24 reads ‘Its owner, Mr Pilkington, was an easy-going gentleman-farmer who spent most of his time in fishing or hunting according to the season.’  Just as in the book Napoleon sides with Pilkington after Frederick attacks him. At the end of the book Pilkington is one of the farmers Napoleon invites to the farm for a tour of inspection. Pilkington gives a toast and says on page 92 of Napoleon’s and the pigs’ management of the farm that ‘He believed that he was right in saying that the lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the country.’ In one of Orwell’s greatest prophecies on page 95 the reader finds the text reads ‘Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. ... The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr Pilkington had played an ace of spades simultaneously.’ The men and pigs have caught each other cheating at cards and have begun to fight. Orwell seems to have predicted in the 1944 the breakdown of the good relations between the USSR under Stalin and the western allies that would occur in the late 1940s and lead to the beginning of the Cold War. Pilkington does not appear in the film, though various good and kind farmers are shown. 

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