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Read the excerpt then in at least 100-150 words, explain how Orwell uses irony in this excerpt.

Animal Farm

About this time there occurred a strange incident which hardly anyone was able to understand. One night at about twelve o'clock there was a loud crash in the yard, and the animals rushed out of their stalls. It was a moonlit night. At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint-brush, and an overturned pot of white paint. The dogs immediately made a ring round Squealer and escorted him back to the farmhouse as soon as he was able to walk. None of the animals could form any idea as to what this meant, except old Benjamin, who nodded his muzzle with a knowing air, and seemed to understand, but would say nothing.

In this excerpt there is a situational irony that leaves every animal confused and speechless. It seems ironic that squealer so happened to be at the side of the barn with the seven commandments, a ladder (now broken), and a bucket of paint and a paint brush. Due to the situation unfolding in front of the animals they where almost all in shock and only Benjamin could process what had just happened yet didn't say anything. Orwell's use of irony also helps foreshadows the fact that the commandments are starting to change over the course of Napoleons rule over the farm.