Page 84 of animal is the slaughter in fact massacre of numerous animals. The reason the were massacred? They confessed to crimes that they didn't commit. Now this is strange to me. It makes sense that the hens would confess to conspiracy because they had protested about laying the eggs. But why do the other animals confess? They most likely have done nothing wrong but confess to conspiring with Snowball and Snowball said this and that. Yet they confess to these crimes after seeing the other animals slaughtered right in front of their face. Was this a trick of Napolean? Did he convince the animals that they actually were in league with Snowball? That is really the only logical explanation that I have for it. If anyone has any ideas about this please comment.
From a conspiracy perspective perhaps Napolean tricked them into confessing promising higher rations or something like that. I understand that Orwell probably did this to demonstrate how cruel communist rule can be. But, is this really what people did in communist states? Confess for no reason. In 1984 they confess out of fear and because they are tortured. I find it really peculiar that Orwell did not specify why the animals confessed.
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