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.
-The passage I have chosen from Animal Farm was,
"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 fertilizes it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin."
This passage really kept me thinking. "Are we really more useless than the animals we rase and rule?" If you just read the passage, you can't deny it. There's nothing there but the truth. Kinda scary how so true it is. It is true that humans are weaker than the cows that pull the plough, it is true that humans are slower than the dogs that chase the rabbits in the field, it is true humans cannot produce food from their body but giving up their own flesh. The thought can't come out of my mind. "Are we really that useless?" We are the most intellegent (at least we think we are) on the planet, but where did that leaded us to? Killing the planet, making animals extinict, war, nuclear bombs... There's really nothing humans do good for the planet. All that humans do is gain more knowledge, but what good of a use is that? All the so-called knowledge is used for our own confort and our own good. Without knowledge, are humans any good?
Really interesting passage I think, and if animals can speak one day (or maybe they already do) I think thats what they are going to think about.
-The passage I have chosen from Animal Farm was,
"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 fertilizes it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin."
This passage really kept me thinking. "Are we really more useless than the animals we rase and rule?" If you just read the passage, you can't deny it. There's nothing there but the truth. Kinda scary how so true it is. It is true that humans are weaker than the cows that pull the plough, it is true that humans are slower than the dogs that chase the rabbits in the field, it is true humans cannot produce food from their body but giving up their own flesh. The thought can't come out of my mind. "Are we really that useless?" We are the most intellegent (at least we think we are) on the planet, but where did that leaded us to? Killing the planet, making animals extinict, war, nuclear bombs... There's really nothing humans do good for the planet. All that humans do is gain more knowledge, but what good of a use is that? All the so-called knowledge is used for our own confort and our own good. Without knowledge, are humans any good?
Really interesting passage I think, and if animals can speak one day (or maybe they already do) I think thats what they are going to think about.
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