Wednesday, March 21, 2007

QUESTION 7-Animal Farm

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 which was found to be disturbing was the yard where the execution was held. One of the 7 commandments was that no animal shall kill any other animal, but Napoleon ignored it even though he made it. Later the animals noticed that that commandment had been changed by Napoleon to no animal shall kill any other animal without cause. I think this was so unfair to other animals in the farm. If the pigs made the commandments they should try to maintain the rules more than other animals but instead they changed it whenever they broke the rule. When the animals held the execution, I was surprised that many animals were in touch with Snowball but I wondered why they didn’t do anything like run away from the farm or resist to the pigs. This setting was meaningful, not in a good way, but it was the beginning of the dictatorship of Napoleon.
To the contrary the scene after the execution was described very beautifully. When the animals came back, they all sat next to Clover and stared at the sight of their farm. It was described like this: the long pasture stretching down to the main road, the hayfield, the spinney, the drinking pool, the ploughed fields where the young wheat was thick and green, and the red roofs of the farm buildings with the smoke curling from the chimneys. It was such a paradox showing a beautiful view of the farm after the brutal kills. This scene was meaningful because it showed that cruel things could happen with the background of a beautiful farm.

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