chapter 10

• Who expressed satisfaction about the end of mistrust?

  1. Pilkington
• What did Mr. Pilkington believe had come to an end?

  A long period of mistrust and misunderstanding
• How were the proprietors of Animal Farm previously regarded by their human neighbors?

  With a certain measure of misgiving
• What does Mr. Pilkington say about the doubts regarding Animal Farm?

  All such doubts were now dispelled
• What historical event does the meeting between Mr. Pilkington and the pigs allude to?

  • The Tehran Conference (1943)
  • Leaders of UK, US, and Soviet Union
  • Efforts to defeat Germany and end WWII
  • Mapping out a postwar world
• Historical/Political

  "It was a source of great satisfaction to him, [Mr. Pilkington] said—and, he was sure, to all others present—to feel that a long period of mistrust and misunderstanding had now come to an end. There had been a time . . . when the respected proprietors of Animal Farm had been regarded, he would not say with hostility, but perhaps with a certain measure of misgiving, by their human neighbours. . . . But all such doubts were now dispelled."
• Historical

  "Napoleon, was only now for the first time announcing it—that the name “Animal Farm” had been abolished. Henceforward the farm was to be known as “The Manor Farm”—which, he believed, was its correct and original name."

  This is an allusion to when Joseph Stalin changed the name of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army to the Soviet Army.