 Napoleon, who later decides to accept the humans and strike bargains with them, announces that the remains are to be disposed of because they represent the old days when Animal Farm was "violent and primitive" towards humans; towards the end of the story, Napoleon announces that he has reburied the skull.In both film adaptations, Major dies while provoking the animals into rebelling.In the 1954 adaption (voiced by Maurice Denham), he dies suddenly while the animals are singing.