The Third Entry

Who are the main characters of the novel? Do you like them? Why or why not? What is special about them? What do they reveal about the universal human experience?

In the ‘Animal Farm’, the main characters are animals mostly. They are Jones, the owner of the farm, Napoleon, the brave pig, Snowball, the genius pig, and all the other animals in Animal Farm. In the world, there are two kinds of people. People who controls with the brain like governors and others who uses their body like soldiers. In the book pigs are supposed to be governors, and all the other animals seem like soldiers. From them, I like pigs which use their brains to solve the problems, especially Snowball who is the cleverest pig in the farm. Pigs give reasons for actions and all the other animals don’t understand, and just follow what pigs ask them to do which means pig’s are the boss of the Animal Farm. If pigs were not smart enough, then the animals would be immobile, couldn’t think of what to do next. If we are to compare Animal Farm with a plant, all the animals except for pigs are the body parts of the plant, and pigs are the roots of the plant which hold the plant still. What I am trying to say is pigs try to hold the animal farm constant and stable with their cleverness. I also appreciate Napoleon’s way of solving his problem. Even if he uses dirty tricks, such as training the dogs to be on his side, that is the way us humans, should live like. There were many people who were willing to get their own freedom like these animals in the ‘Animal Farm.’ These animals got their own freedom by fighting against the humans, and succeeded gaining it. Then they created their own country with idealism of communism as North Korea did. These animals created schools, worked hard, and did every job that we, humans do.

I found a poem that supports Napoleon's idea.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Communism

When my blood flows calm as a purling river,
When my heart is asleep and my brain has sway,
It is then that I vow we must part for ever,
That I will forget you, and put you away
Out of my life, as a dream is banished
Out of the mind when the dreamer awakes;
That I know it will be when the spell has vanished,
Better for both of our sakes.

When the court of the mind is ruled by Reason,
I know it wiser for us to part;
But Love is a spy who is plotting treason,
In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.
They whisper to me that the King is cruel,
That his reign is wicked, his law a sin,
And every word they utter is fuel
To the flame that smoulders within.

And on nights like this, when my blood runs riot
With the fever of youth and its mad desires,
When my brain in vain bids my heart be quiet,
When my breast seems the centre of lava-fires,
Oh, then is when most I miss you,
And I swear by the stars and my soul and say
That I will have you, and hold you, and kiss you,
Though the whole world stands in the way.

And like Communists, as mad, as disloyal,
My fierce emotions roam out of their lair;
They hate King Reason for being royal –
They would fire his castle, and burn him there.
O Love! They would clasp you, and crush you and kill you,
In the insurrection of uncontrol.

This poem clearly supports Napoleon's idea because he tried to alter Animal Farm into Communism.