Animal Farm: Q6

• 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.
  

“For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS” (Animal Farm, Chapter X, pg.147).

This is almost at the last part of the novel, where the ‘resolution’ of the novel happens. It’s describing the discrimination of animals themselves and what is it like to have more power than others. This passage is very meaningful to me, because it is well related to the human rights. There are many human discriminations going on these days. For example, White people (I’m not going against the White people, but…) discriminated the Black people in the 80’s and early 90’s. This is a very daring and presuming thing to do to God, because it’s insulting God’s special creation. God made us to be equal and have all of the rights to enjoy His creation of this beautiful earth. In the novel, while all of the other animals were suffering and tired of building the Windmill, the pigs-who first made the rule of “Four legs good, Two legs bad”-were enjoying their mealtime in the house, in the kitchen. They think that they are higher than the rest of the animals just because of the intelligence they have.

This relates to the theme again that over dictatorship can make our self grow more to the sinful and self-centered nature of our selves. Sometimes even I unconsciously act like I’m ignoring someone, or looking down at them when I’m feeling like I’m better than that person. However, we all should be reminded every time that all human are equal, and we all are special in God’s eyes.