This week’s chapters of Animal Farm are particularly unsettling. I feel this way because it is obvious that the book is a mirror to our society and there was an astounding lack of resistance to complete domination from the pigs, especially Napoleon. Boxer in particular was so eager to please Napoleon that he took on more than his fair share of the work. I think that is something that can be seen often in our own society; someone who wants to be promoted or who really believes in a cause or mission of a company works exceedingly hard to distinguish themselves, not realizing that the system is rigged. Boxer will not be given more power or leadership duties because he is not a pig and Napoleon only sees horses as labor workers.
A lot of the ideas mentioned in this week’s chapters are strikingly similar to real dictatorships.. For example, Napoleon claims that the animals need to work on
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The scene where Clover notices that Napoleon has broken a cardinal rule and slept in a bed and then is so brainwashed by the regime that she accepts their poor explanation, that the rule actually said a bed with sheets and she misinterpreted it because of the last two words reminds me of political issues that we are having now. Our President regularly says incredibly insensitive and offensive things and his followers are so blinded by admiration for his bigotry and hatred for anyone who does not look exactly like them is similar to the animal followers spreading Napoleon’s propaganda. It is easy to read this book and berate the animals for being so blind and yet so many people in our own society cannot see that there is no excuse or explanation for some of the messages currently coming from our