Monday, February 26, 2007
Question 2
In my opinion now days there are no such situations like there are on Animal Farm. But maybe about hundred years ago there were. For example Russian revolution that happened in 1917. Author tried to show his opinion against the communism and the war that was happening at that time. The relationship between Animal Farm and Russian revolution is that in both places “bosses” or aka Napoleon and Stalin they start ruling their own right and say that “ some people are more equal than others” or how Napoleon said “ all animals are equal, except some animals are more equal that others”. By saying that they start separating animals and people in different “categories”, they judge people and animals by their posts. This novel does not show any way this situation can be resolved. In my opinion resolutions like to these kinds of stories will come naturally, whenever the people or animals will needed it. This novel does not show any particular way to solve this kind of situations. The best way animals could solve this problem is by trying to stop Napoleon, their leader, from being in charge of them. Author did show or tell the readers how people can solve situations like this so in my opinion we have to guess how this can be solved, or we can just forget these events that happened in this novel.
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"In my opinion now days there are no such situations like there are on Animal Farm."
There are still situations like animal farm happening today. Think of the social classes today, do you think that there is a general feeling of everyone being created equal? And that favoritism, sexism, racism doesn't exist anymore?
North Korea can be a example of what is happening to the animal farm. Like Napoleon, Kim Jung-el is told to the citizens as a "Great Leader". Napoleon also tells the other animals that he is great and always right. However, they are certainly not great leaders. Great leaders are people who sacrifice themselves for the welvare of the people, not use them as their slaves and gain all the profit they make. Maybe making this world "fair" amd "equal" is impossible. It would be our ideal society where everyone is treated equally and fairly. However, there is always the ones with the power and they always seem to use the power for their own benefit and gain.
Although it is true that large events like the Russian Revolution is not happening these days, I think there still are some cases like Animal Farm happening on Earth. Like what others mentioned, North Korea is an exemplary example of what is happening in Animal Farm. The two do not mix exactly, but the main point is there with problems with "fairity" and "equality."
I think it's cool that you can actually connect Animal Farm to the real world today. For my book, Brave New World, I can't do that because the book is set in the far future, way after 2100, I believe.
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