Chapter 1

At the meeting, the pigs sit in the front, and the dogs move in behind them. Though it is not apparent in the first chapter, the seating of the animals at this meeting foreshadows the hierarchy after the rebellion.

First came the three dogs, Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher, and then the pigs, who settled down in the straw immediately in front of the platform. The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began...