After finishing my previous blog with a book, Fahrenheit 451, I decided to read Animal Farm.

Sunday 27 May 2007

Entry 6: Passage

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* please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.

The seven commandments on the wall was the passage that I remembered the best. In my opinion, the commandments were made to criticize human because they were mistreated. For example, “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.” Because of Mr. Jones, the criteria of the rules were based on his negative images that were shown in front of the animals. In the other hand, I also found the commandments very useless. When no body is able to read, what is the point of following it? Also, the commandments constantly changed as time went by. The rules of the commandments were also ironic because the leader himself was going against all of those rules. Behind those commandments, hardships happen and suffering kills that animals. Behind those commandments, Napoleon continues to consolidate power and killing the animals who are against him. It was a dog eating dog society to keep the position that controls the power and digressing to the way of unrighteousness and corruption. “All animals are equal.” What is the true meaning of that rule? Being equal is that others have rights to say something like the leader and vocalize their opinion about the society. However, other leaders in the past ignored the fact and acted on their own. They killed innocent people unmercifully and kept their position. Later on, I’ve noticed when they are dead or over, they received a title of a horrible leader. Like, “Ivan the Terrible”, “Hitler the Jewish killer”, “Joseph Stalin the Stone”, “Kim Jung IL the madman”, and “Napoleon the dictator”.

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