Out of many sad events throughout the story, I personally thought that Napoleon and Squealer convincing all the farm animals to think that Snowball was an intruder, betrayer, and the one who should be killed was the worst part of the novel. After Napoleon used his privately trained dogs to chase away Snowball out of the Animal Farm, him and Squealer started to propagandize all the animals, so they think that Napoleon is always right, and Snowball was on the same side with Mr. Jones. Foolish animals believed in every single word that Squealer and Napoleon told, and later on in the novel, they were killed by Napoleon if they did not.
Snowball was a true follower of Animalism, just like Trotsky, back in the old days of Russia, but was chased away by Napoleon's dogs because he would get in the way of Napoleon's plans to gain and have the ultimate control over the farm. As soon as Snowball was chased away, the farm's process of turning into the old Manor Farm sped up. If it wasn't for Snowball's banishment, the Animal Farm could've been a powerful farm under every animals' control. However, since Napoleon got rid of Snowball, he became the new Mr. Jones, turning the peaceful Animal Farm to the old Manor Farm.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Free Write on Animal Farm
I enjoy any type of parodies, including songs, movies, books, and drawings that talk about or criticize current world issues. Animal Farm is one of the most brilliant parodies I have ever read in my entire life. None of the books that I have read had this great of a parody about world issues. Most of the characters, and even a little thing represents at least something. Also, the way the animals are described, for instance, Stalin and other leaders as "pigs" is very clever. The author, George Owell makes fun of those leaders by describing them as lazy, greedy, fat pigs.
As commonly known, every characters and their actions are based on the real events. The characters do whatever their representing people/things did. The actions that the characters take have meanings behind them too. For instance, the actions that Napoleon, Squealer, and the nine dogs took seems so unfair and incomprehensible. That way, the author criticizes the real people that the characters represent. I just think it is a brilliant way of making fun of those people and I could not be bored of it.
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