He teaches them a song called the "Beasts of England" in which he describes his vision of social utopia on the farm in lyric form. The song unites the animals and gives them a goal to follow as one. According to Stephen Sedley in "On politics and the success of Animal Farm." "The dream of revolution is dreamt by the old pig Major, who dies before it happens. His manifesto speech to the animals is couches in terms of self-evident absurdity" (Sedley). This describes Old Major's dream and speech as impractical, an idea that cannot be achieved easily. The animals react to Old Major's dream with much recognition. Old Major dies three days after teaching the animals of his dream. After he dies, the younger pigs on the farm, Snowball, Napoleon and Squealer turn Old Major's dream into a principle called Animalism. .
Out of all the animals, Snowball and Napoleon try their best to fulfill Old Major's dream and stage a Rebellion. Snowball and Napoleon are the most resourceful pigs and take a stand to fulfill Old Major's dream of equality. Snowball teaches the animals "Four legs good, two legs bad!" (Orwell 34). Each animal is distinct, as no two are alike; in her article Valerie Meyers states, "Each animal stands for a precise figure or representative type" (Meyers). The animals represent different instances from the Russian Revolution, and they are prominent individuals representing the Revolution, none of the animals represent the same, they are all different. Snowball teaches all the animals' defense skills. One night, all the animals come together and overthrow Mr. Jones and pass the first step of becoming free animals. Although all the animals work collectively to become equivalent, they never are really equal, because the pigs take extra apples and milk to fend for themselves than to fend for the others. All the animals fight hard and win the Rebellion.