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.
‘All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.’ When I read this passage it didn’t make any sense to me so I had to finish the book and then think about it to get the meaning of the message. All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others. I get the part where it says all animals are equal but the next part didn’t make sense. Some animals are more equal than others. I was thinking if something is equal, than it’s equal. How can something or some animals be more equal than others? Then I connected the statement with the story. The animals that were more equal than others were the pigs and the dogs and since they were more equal than others, they had more privileges than the rest of the animals that were normally equal, which does not make any sense because it should be all animals are equal and there should be no other additional statements to it. The passage ‘All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.’ is the only thing I can remember clearly from the story because it is the statement made by pigs and they allow themselves to be like the gods of the Animal Farm, or Manor Farm, which the pigs change the name eventually when they finally decide to interact with the humans. ‘All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.’ is not so meaningful but it left some sort of a trace in my memory because I do not like this statement at all. If you take this statement and put it to the human world, then it states ‘All people are equal but some people are more equal than others.’ which sounds like a commandment from the KKK. Thus, I hate the passage ‘All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.’ because it is outrageous and illogical.
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I picked same passage as you did. “All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.” I was confused like you when I first saw this passage. But when I go back to the beginning and compare this passage to the seven commandments I realized how it changed from the beginning, which was very interesting. I think this passage tells us that first the revolution was supposed to make life better for all of animals and treat every animal equally, but life was even worse long after revolution and small elite gained power and privilege.
This has nothing to do with Brave New World, but I thought it would be nice to comment. Like you, I did not like the meaning of that passage when I read Animal Farm. However, the passage was so deep that it stayed in my head for a while and this is what I thought: Napolean promised for a farm that all animals would be satisfied with: no humans and no unfair rules. He was supposed to be the "charismatic leader" that everyone trusted and depended on. Thus, he was supposed to lead the animals on the right track, not misuse them.
Thinking about it again, this passage seems very interesting because it shows Orwell's discontent, or possibly mockery, of the Soviet Union. Josef Stalin (or Lenin) was Napolean; a country "pig" from Georgia that gained people's trust, only to abuse it by taking advantage ("privilege") of everyone. Yet, people, like the animals, followed him. ...
haha i totally agree with you on basically everything you have said. i too did not understand there could be an animal who is more equal than another. Equality is not a thing to be compared. i leave here a comment because we have got the same message. i hate the indifferent and stupid animals except the pigs because they almost refused to deal with their situation.
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