Snowball titleholders construction of a windmill in order to give electricity that would profit the lives of all the creatures on the ranch.
Not only would they've electric lights and heat, but the ministry would help them complete their labor. For Snowball, the windmill symbolizes progress; the creatures took over the ranch to better their own conditions, and the purpose of their work including erecting the windmill is to give a better life for all occupants of the ranch.
Napoleon blames the collapse of the windmill on Snowball’s sabotage, not shy construction, and the creatures agree. The windmill now symbolizes the gaslighting, or cerebral manipulation, that the gormandizers have foisted on the rest of the creatures.
The history of Napoleon’s rule has been denying the verity and telling the creatures not to believe the substantiation they ’ve seen with their own eyes. Now, indeed though the windmill has collapsed because Napoleon knew nothing about construction and simply stole Snowball’s idea, the creatures still believe that the windmill provides evidence of Snowball’s business.
