Explain this quote from Animal Farm: "Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty-hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there...

This quote can be found at the beginning of Chapter Six of Animal Farm. By this point, the animals have been through the revolution as well as the Battle of the Cowshed, when they fought off the humans' attempt to retake the farm. Snowball has been expelled from the farm, and Napoleon is beginning to emerge as a dictator. The quote reflects the hard labor to which the animals are subjected by this point...

This quote can be found at the beginning of Chapter Six of Animal Farm. By this point, the animals have been through the revolution as well as the Battle of the Cowshed, when they fought off the humans' attempt to retake the farm. Snowball has been expelled from the farm, and Napoleon is beginning to emerge as a dictator. The quote reflects the hard labor to which the animals are subjected by this point in the book. Napoleon was requiring more and more work, seven days a week as fall began. The final line of the quote is typical of the manipulation of language that the pigs use throughout the book. They cast the extra work on Sundays as voluntary, but in reality, in order to receive full rations, they had to do it--it was really not voluntary at all. By this point, the utopian experiment that is Animal Farm is beginning to sour. The animals face a food shortages and increasingly hard work, and Napoleon is becoming more and more powerful.