Sunday, April 6, 2008

Animal Farm: Significant Passage


But they had not gone twenty yard when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glance, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. 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.


I really liked this passage because it talked about no difference between people and animal. Seriously, there was no difference between human and animals if they acted all the same with greed and selfishness. Especially the part when it said but already it was impossible to say which was which because usually, people think that they are better than animals. However, according to this passage, no, not at all! Maybe they want to believe that they are better than animals so that they can control them easily. Actually, it is hard to make a difference between people and animals. They both propagate their population throughout the history; know how to use tools (like a chimpanzee uses plant stem to eat its food), and know how to think. The only better thing is that human have smarter brain than animals. However, if humans don’t use the brain wisely but fall in to a way of failure, then that is same as acting like animals. Some people should try to think wisely than the animals to prove that they are smarter than the animals. Still, if they work hard for their own benefit, not thinking about others, (in Animal Farm, there were some animals that sacrificed themselves for other animals) then that is called outside human, inside animal. Which side do you think you are in right now?

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