How important is the weather to the struggles of the animals of Animal Farm? "It was a bitter winter." The weather has been important to the...

When the animals first took over the farm, it was early
spring, and the "harvest was an even bigger success than they had hoped"  (Chapter III).
The summer was a good one for the animals, whose work went "like clockwork." But when
January came, the fields froze and little work could be done (Chapter V). The pigs spent
their time planning for the upcoming season, and Snowball had great expectations for
modernizing the farm's operation. Plans for a windmill were the most important of
Snowball's ideas, but he soon disappeared and the windmill appeared to be put on hold.
But once the weather improved, Napoleon announced that Snowball's windmill would be
built after all. The animals worked "like slaves" throughout the spring and summer, and
in August they began working on Sundays as well, which had been their one day off
(Chapter VI). The harvest was smaller than the previous year (probably due, in part, to
Snowball's absence). The windmill had nearly been completed when terrible winds hit in
November, leaving it "in ruins."