Question

ok so I am reading the book Animal farm and one of the questions of the chapter questions are this:
Why did the animals confess to being traitors?

Answer 1

Btw this is the 6th and 7th chapters

Answer 2

the reference is on the 35th and 36 page (7th chapter)

Answer 3

this is what i found Stalin's reign consisted of many purges. These were incidents in which he would kill masses of people for various reasons. They were never good ones, whether he couldn't or wouldn't get resources to people or they didn't do what he wanted them to do.

I think Orwell threw this incident into the book to demonstrate Stalin's regular purges and the effect it had on people (or in this case the animals). Once their confessions are complete and the rest of the animals are left speechless and in a huddle, we feel the weight of what has happened as readers. I think he hoped this would give the world a taste of how it felt to be a Russian under Stalin's rule.

My students in class hypothesize that maybe some of the animals knew death would be better than continuing to live this way.

A biography I've seen had Russians from Stalin's rule reporting the difficulty they experienced. They were so affected by the propaganda that they believed everything Stalin wanted them to. It is hard for us as free individuals to relate with such submission to a ruler. For them, it was business as usual.

Answer 4

I believe the animals were either coerced into a confession or were tricked into it because of their low intelligence.