Q7

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.

There is one setting which I found very disturbing and made me sigh. The setting is when the animals that tried to assassinate Napoleon were slaughtered on the spot when they got caught. Since this novel was written based on the Russian Revolution and Stalin did slaughter people right on the spot, it made me, once again, realize how pathetic can humans be. Humans, when they get themselves controlled by their greed and selfishness, they act in such an evil way that it sometimes makes me feel sick. Just to add in something, I also know that I do that occasionally too, so it makes me feel worse and frustrated whenever I spot humans doing evil things while they are controlled by selfishness. They do not care or think about what would happen if they act the way they want to at the moment. Sometimes some people are smart enough to come up with a back up plan such as eliminating the witnesses but most of the time they do not. An example would be people shooting people in the public. In the states, there are many cases where some kids brings his dad’s gun and shoot the other kids that didn’t sell the drugs on time to him. A similar example would be stealing money for drugs. In the novel, Napoleon did act impulsively and slaughtered the pigs that tried to kill him. But he knew he could have done it and did not matter very much to him because he knew that he was in charge of the farm and was ruling the farm. He also had the furious dogs guarding him so he didn’t have to worry about getting assaulted by some other animal. Thus, the setting when Napoleon slaughtered the assassins was the most memorable setting in the novel.