Animal Farm - Give a detailed account of the two attempts to build the windmill and explain why each attempt ends in disaster.

... Q2. Give a detailed account of the two attempts to build the windmill and explain why each attempt ends in disaster. Snowball first brought up the idea of building the windmill after seeing that winter was hard to pass due to the frozen fields that are barren, and the bitter cold that the animals suffered. The windmill, according to Snowball, will be made to operate a dynamo which will in turn supply the farm with electricity. Electricity will light the stalls and warm them in winter, and would also run a circular saw, a chaff-cutter, a mangel-slicer and an electric milking machine. This will be for industrial development. Snowball also conjured up a picture of fantastic machines which would do their work for the animals while the animals will graze at their ease in the fields or improved their minds with reading and conversation. Napoleon, who had vehemently opposed the windmill idea

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