Friday, March 28, 2008

5th post


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.


- Well, the only setting in animal farm was the farm. The story never actually went anywhere else. But, it is meaningful. One reason is because it was a place of happiness and hope, described by old Major. But it turned into something else as the balance of power tipped to the pigs side, not equal for every animal. I think the line behind the book "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL. BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS." I think this fits just story. The setting George Orwell described was like a kind of fantasy, a land where everyone would like to be. The kind of place where Moses, the raven, keeps going on about. The setting was like a place that can never be achieved. That it's hopeless to try and achieve that place. It was memorable, but very disturbing to me because it sort of sounds like world peace can never be achieved, and it's what we're trying to achieve at the present.

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