Saturday, January 18, 2014

How did the animals who were not on Animal Farm view the rebellion?

In
s , the animals who
work on Manor Farm rebel and take over the farm. Their
goal is to achieve
better and more equitable treatment than they had received under the

management of Manor Farms original owners, Mr. and Mrs. Jones. When he first approaches
the
animals with his idea,says,

Remove
Man from the scene, and
the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished
for ever.

Man is the only
creature that consumes without
producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too
weak to
pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all
the
animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum
that will prevent them
from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. Our
labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises
it, and yet there is not one of us
that owns more than his bare skin.



Following the rebellion, humans and animals on other nearby farms

learn of what has occurred at Manor Farm, which is now known as Animal
Farm.writes,


By the late summer the
news of what had happened on Animal Farm had
spread across half the county.
Every dayandsent out flights of pigeons whose instructions were
to mingle
with the animals on neighbouring farms, tell them the story of the

Rebellion€¦

Other farmers were very anxious to
prevent
their own animals from learning too much about it. Nevertheless, the
animals on adjacent farms
do learn about Animal Farm. The thought of
eventually being able to govern themselves gives
these other animals a new
sense of optimism and hope.


Rumours of
a wonderful farm, where the human beings had been turned out and the animals

managed their own affairs, continued to circulate in vague and distorted forms, and
throughout
that year a wave of rebelliousness ran through the countryside.
Bulls which had always been
tractable suddenly turned savage, sheep broke
down hedges and devoured the clover, cows kicked
the pail over, hunters
refused their fences and shot their riders on to the other side. Above
all,
the tune and even the words of Beasts of England were known everywhere. It had spread
with
astonishing speed. The human beings could not contain their rage when
they heard this song,
though they pretended to think it merely ridiculous.
They could not understand, they said, how
even animals could bring themselves
to sing such contemptible rubbish. Any animal caught singing
it was given a
flogging on the spot. And yet the song was irrepressible. The blackbirds
whistled
it in the hedges, the pigeons cooed it in the elms, it got into the
din of the smithies and the
tune of the church bells. And when the human
beings listened to it, they secretly trembled,
hearing in it a prophecy of
their future doom.

Of course,
theis
that the animals on Animal Farm are working like slaves even in the early
days
post-rebellion:

However, back on
Animal Farm, ALL that
year the animals worked like slaves. But they were
happy in their work; they grudged no effort
or sacrifice, well aware that
everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and
those of their
kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human

beings.


href="">

No comments:

Post a Comment

How is Joe McCarthy related to the play The Crucible?

When we read its important to know about Senator Joseph McCarthy. Even though he is not a character in the play, his role in histor...