What is the major theme of this novel? Why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2008?
-I thought that the major theme of this novel was dictatorship and the power of law and justice. Through the conversations and the words that came out of the animals mouths, rules have been formed and laws have been made.
In animal farm animals were to follow whatever Napoleon(the ruler of the animals) did, which were the seven commandments. These commandments are very simliar to the laws us humans follow today. Also, when there is a law, there is justice/punishment. These punishments were held by ether getting kicked out or suffering the death penalty.
It was because of theses harsh penalties, everyone followed the laws and rules and it was because of these laws that made the animals lives so restricted.
At the end of the story, Napoleon and Squealer changed the comandments for there own good. But the animals couldn't understand what was going on, so they just thought "okay" and followed the new rules.
Through the new laws, Napoleon used it to kill Boxer. Which was legal to the animals, because one of the commandment was no longer "No animal shall kill any other animal" but was "No animal shall kill any other animal with no reason". Because Napoleon had a reason, it was legal for him to kill Boxer. Like this by changing just a fraction of a law can change dramaticly and show the power of laws and the dictator that created it.
This is important to the teenagers that are in the year 2008, because these days a lot of people use harsh and hurting words as a joke. Through this theme of this book, it can show that we shouldn't use these harsh and strong words as a joke and use it all the time for no reason what so ever. Because, a change of a small fraction of that word can mean a whole different thing and infulence one another is a dramtic way.
-I thought that the major theme of this novel was dictatorship and the power of law and justice. Through the conversations and the words that came out of the animals mouths, rules have been formed and laws have been made.
In animal farm animals were to follow whatever Napoleon(the ruler of the animals) did, which were the seven commandments. These commandments are very simliar to the laws us humans follow today. Also, when there is a law, there is justice/punishment. These punishments were held by ether getting kicked out or suffering the death penalty.
It was because of theses harsh penalties, everyone followed the laws and rules and it was because of these laws that made the animals lives so restricted.
At the end of the story, Napoleon and Squealer changed the comandments for there own good. But the animals couldn't understand what was going on, so they just thought "okay" and followed the new rules.
Through the new laws, Napoleon used it to kill Boxer. Which was legal to the animals, because one of the commandment was no longer "No animal shall kill any other animal" but was "No animal shall kill any other animal with no reason". Because Napoleon had a reason, it was legal for him to kill Boxer. Like this by changing just a fraction of a law can change dramaticly and show the power of laws and the dictator that created it.
This is important to the teenagers that are in the year 2008, because these days a lot of people use harsh and hurting words as a joke. Through this theme of this book, it can show that we shouldn't use these harsh and strong words as a joke and use it all the time for no reason what so ever. Because, a change of a small fraction of that word can mean a whole different thing and infulence one another is a dramtic way.
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