Animal Farm
Explain the significance of the quotation, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Who says this? Whose attitude is it? Does everyone agree with it? Why is this ironic? How does this idea shift throughout the novel?
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The pigs Napoleon and Squealer are the ones who had made this statement.This shows how the pigs are suddenly more superb than the other animals, rather than the original commandment that stated "All animals are equal." The attitude comes from Napoleon, considering he's the one who made Squealer change this as well as the other commandments. In my opinion the animals were persuaded to believe that this is true, because the pigs had to learn and teach the others how to read and write and other things. This was ironic because the seven commandments were made to keep peace on the farm and centralize the animals together.
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ReplyDeleteIn this story it means that all animals are equal but the pigs and Squealer are better then them. The animals that made this were Napoleon, Squealer, and the rest of the pigs. The attitude of this statement came from Napoleon who wanted to change it because he thinks he is the better of all the animals. I do not think they would because at the end one of them saw them playing cards and walking on two feet, and said that, she could not tell the difference between the humans and them. It was ironic because the commandments kept switching from seven good commandments, which was the good one that kept them in order, then to a shorter version of the seven, and then now this.
ReplyDeleteit means that all the animals are equal but all the pigs and squealer are better than them. the animal that made this was napoleon the pigs, and squealer. the attitude that came from this statement was napoleon because he thought he was better than everybody in the farm and was always telling everybody what to do, thats why he wanted to change it. I don,t think so because all of them were walking and one of them saw them walking and playing cards at the same time, so they thought that was wrong because they were not hurt or injured they were just faking so the could be very mean and hurtful. it was ironic because the commandments sometimes keep them in order..
ReplyDeleteit means all the aniamlas are equal but the pigs and squealer are better than everybody else. The attuide came from napoleon because he though he could over power everybody else and thought he could hurt everyone else mentially and pshicallly, thats why he wanted to change the quoute.I dont beleive they did because at the end one of them saw them playing cards and walking on two feet, and ironic because of the commandments kept changing from seven good commandments, which was also the good one that kept them in order, and to a shorter verison of the seven,then now this................
ReplyDeleteThe pigs Napoleon and Squealer Made it up. It means that all animals are equal, except the pigs because they are better. The attitude of this came from Napoleon because as usual he thinks he's better than the other animals that's why he wanted to change the quote. They didn't change it because the other animals was persuade that it was true since the pigs had to teach them how to read and write. The commandments kept switching from seven good commandments which was made to keep peace and keeping them in order.
ReplyDeleteNapoleon and Squealer said it. Its different from "every animal is equal" and this basically says pigs are better and that's why they wanted to change the "motto".
ReplyDeleteAt the begining of the story the quote was "all animals are equal". through out the story things shift. The pigs start to change the rules while no one is looking. This was the doing of Napoleon and the other pigs. Through the story Napoleons attiute changes drematicly. He once believed that everyone was equal. He soon realizes that he has the most power at the farm and if anyone disagreed they would pay. He changes his opinion and changes the quote to " all animals are egual, but some animals are more equal than others". The animals on the farm new that the others where the pigs. Everyone on the farm didnt know that the quote had changed till later on, but whne they realized that this was'nt the original quote they new that it was the pigs. They were confussed at first and did'nt know what to believe because they had benn following Napoleon for the past few years. Its very ironic how things shift in the story from Napoleon believing that all animals where equal to making an exeption for the pigs since he was the most power fun.
ReplyDeleteThe quote "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others," was stated by the pig Napoleon & Squealer. In the story it showed how Napoleon had the mind set of wanting to take over the farm by underestimating all of the other animals. I don't think everyone agreed to the quote, as far as they knew, they were under the leadership of the pigs. The pigs taught the other animals how to read and write other things, so at one point the pigs had the advantage of underestimating the other animals by changing up the rules so it would just benefit the pigs only. As the story neared the end, one of the other animals was walking by an saw the pigs playing cards and walking on two feet, so therefore they knew the pigs were faking ever since the beginning. The quote was ironic because the commandments were made to keep the farm in peace and in order, but the pigs kept switching up the commandments allowing a little more freeway for the pigs only rather than all the animals.
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