what is the main conflict presented in chapter 1 of Animal F arm

Do you give me your word of honour that that man was not stroking your nose?' 'He didn't! I wasn't! It isn't true!' cried Mollie, beginning to prance about and paw the ground.

And–I was a long way away, but I am almost certain I saw this–he was talking to you and you were allowing him to stroke your nose. Pilkington's men was standing on the other side of the hedge.

This morning I saw you looking over the hedge that divides Animal Farm from Foxwood. 'Mollie,' she said, 'I have something very serious to say to you.

One day, as Mollie strolled blithely into the yard, flirting her long tail and chewing at a stalk of hay, Clover took her aside. But there were also rumours of something more serious. On every kind of pretext she would run away from work and go to the drinking pool, where she would stand foolishly gazing at her own reflection in the water. She was late for work every morning and excused herself by saying that she had overslept, and she complained of mysterious pains, although her appetite was excellent. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell (Chapter 5)Īs winter drew on, Mollie became more and more troublesome.

What is the main conflict presented in chapter 1 of Animal F arm