Wednesday, April 9, 2008

The Mood (Animal Farm) #3


What is the mood of this novel? do you find this novel saddens you in
any way? Why?
In the book “Animal Farm” there is a lot of moods that could be mentioned. The mood of this novel is sad, dark, happy, and moods that leads to bad sides. The happy mood part of the story is where the animals first have defeated the owner of the farm. Napoleon and Snowball, two leaders in the farm, made plan and kick the owner out of the farm which made them two leaders of the farm. All the animals felt free, happy and all bright. However, starting from this point of the story, the mood of sad, dark, and moods of bad occurs. When pigs in the farm had starting showing some leadership, they were way beyond the expectation of the other animals. However, things got worse and pigs started becoming selfish. Other animals feel betrayed, sad that pigs are becoming like the owner in the old days. Moreover, the other animals are all in the bad mood because of Napoleon doing things just for him and other animals having not enough freedom. In addition, at the last Napoleon became like a human and sleeps on the bed like human and negotiate with other farm owners. The act of Napoleon made other animals in the farm feel sad, disappointed, and betrayed and into the dark mood. It saddens me because as I said in the other post, the act of Napoleon is similar to every government in the world. The governmental people, at last thinks about themselves. Moreover, it came out in the news that even though governmental people had enough money to help the poor but rather than helping, they were using money for entertainment for themselves. In addition, the citizens had criticized them, in now days; some of the governmental people are still like that.
Another reason why the mood saddens me is because the animals in the farm cannot disagree or disobey Napoleon. He had too much power for himself that the farm couldn’t change. In addition, they can’t even speak to him about their opinion, and follow what they have chosen for them to do. So, these two reasons sadden me.

1 comment:

Charlie. J. Shin said...

I finally found your blog, Vincent.

Okay, I agree with you that the mood changes often in this novel.
It was happy in the beginning, and as pages run out, the story gets darker and darker. It becomes sad and sad.
However, even when story is sad, animals' moods are not always sad, because their emotions overtaken by Napoleon's power. So I don't think the mood of this novel is always sad.

Well done, but why is your posts so longㅠ? It took sometime for me reading it.