Saturday, April 7, 2007

Animal Farm: Entry 7

--Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? Or disturbing? Or memorable? Describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.

The setting of Animal Farm is very interesting. The story of this book takes place only at Manor farm, which has been renamed Animal Farm later on; the book talks about what kind of conflicts and problems the animal society has. The animals in this story represent different types of humans; so many people would think that the author George Owell personified animals. But, I believe that he animalized humans to pigs.
The main purpose of writing this book is to criticize the Russian Revolution and politicians. Then would the author personified animals to bring shame upon on them? It would be more correct to say he animalized the politicians into pigs on which people have contempt for impurity. The very last passage of the book says, "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which,” and this proves that he put the criticism in the book.
This is really interesting to me. Many authors personify animals to make the book more interesting, but this book animalizeshuman.’ I was also impressed that the author claims that there is no difference between filthy pigs and corrupted human.

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