Animal Farm: Entry of Choice

For entry of choice, I wanted to write about the foolishness of the animals described in Animal Farm. According to the perspective of the animals, they were the one who always had to obey to the leader. Without doubting or thinking, they did everything to accomplish what was called utopia. However, the result was extremely disappointing. The world that they wanted didn’t come true but all they had was having a dictator that never listened to what they wanted him to do. Furthermore, they must have obeyed to the dictator or else, some received death as a punishment of disobedience. Nothing else but all they had to do was agreeing with the dictator’s decision, without any resistance or opposition even if his command was unreasonable. They didn’t even think that his commands were unreasonable that caused the dictatorship in their world, which was certainly different from what they have thought about their own world. Some convincing examples for foolishness were a flock of sheep and Boxer. A flock of sheep, they just followed everything that Squealer and Napoleon told them to do. In chapter five it said, it was noticed that they were especially liable to break into “Four legs good, two legs bad” at crucial moments in Snowball's speeches but after Napoleon changed his mind to act like a human, they shouted, “Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs, better! Four legs good, two legs better!” What a flock of empty-headed dummies that all they knew was which legs were good and which legs were bad! Boxer, he was a loyal servant that did all his best to establish the utopia for animal. Maybe people felt sympathy on him when they read this book. I also thought he was just a tool that later was thrown away because it worn out. However, if he had seriously have thought about the harshness of Napoleon, then he might have realized the greed of Napoleon and stopped all the work he was doing for Napoleon. Foolishness, foolishness and foolishness were what mattered a lot to enlighten the animals so that they could stand against unreasonable and intolerant dictator.
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