If I understand what you mean by inciting incident, which I am interpreting as the specific incident or precipitating event that brings the plot of the novel into being, that incident would be as follows. The animals have been underfed and neglected by Farmer Jones and his men because Farmer Jones has taken to drinking too heavily and his men are dishonest. On Midsummer's Eve, he goes out and has a drunken binge. Meanwhile, his...
If I understand what you mean by inciting incident, which I am interpreting as the specific incident or precipitating event that brings the plot of the novel into being, that incident would be as follows. The animals have been underfed and neglected by Farmer Jones and his men because Farmer Jones has taken to drinking too heavily and his men are dishonest. On Midsummer's Eve, he goes out and has a drunken binge. Meanwhile, his men go rabbiting. The animals are unfed, hungry and fed up. A hungry cow breaks into the store shed and all the animals begin to eat. When Farmer Jones and his men come in with whips to restore order, the animals rebel. They fight back. So the inciting incident is Farmer Jones and the men coming in to whip the hungry animals and chase them away from the food stores. This brings Animal Farm into being for the following reasons: first, Farmer Jones and his men are chased off the farm, second, when Mrs. Jones sees what is happening she packs her bag and leaves, along with Moses. Third, the animals burn everything that reminds them of the humans, such as the whips and the ribbons they would braid in the horses' manes. More importantly, it is at this point that they adopt the Seven Commandments of Animalism and rename the farm Animal Farm, from which the book gets its title. From this point forward, all the action will revolve around the animals' experiment in running the farm themselves.
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