The Beautiful Passages:
1. The major´s speech;
2. First seven Commanders;
3. Growing animal´s knowleadge;
4. “God-bye Boxer”;
5. There are no difference between a pig and a man (the last passage of the book).
Why are these passages beautiful...?
1. - This speech is crucial in this story, because this is the speech that induces the animals to do a revolution and to fight for their rights.
- The Major (old major) “was so highly regarded on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose a hour´s sleep in order to hear what he had to say”. With this speech he was two main objectives: talking about his death that was close, to announce his future successor (“...before I die I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired...”) and he also want to tell to other animals about a strange dream that he had. The dream that made him remember an important massage that someone had passed him a long time ago, talking about a future revolution in order to do justice about the animals rights. And another very important thing is transmitted by this speech too, the song of the“ Beasts of England” (against humans), that later becomes their hymn.
2. – The first seven Commandments are the rules that they made after the revolution. They made it together, thinking that was important for their own control.
- This seven Commandments like the “Beasts of England” accompany the story and contribute to understand the story´s development. At the beginning, this seven Commandments are unalterable, but a long of the story some principles are changed and also this “Commandments”. What contributes for this, mainly, is the approach to human beings. (“5th - No animal shall drink alcohol” (...) “No animal shall drink alcohol too much” (...) “he doesn´t remembered this commard writen like that”).
3. - At some moment, Snowball (the first successes major) formed the “Wild Comrades Re-education Committee”.
- (“The reading and writing classes, however, were a great success. By the autumn almost every animal on the farm was literate in some degree.”). The main concern in the farm was being independent of the humans and they tried to do everything to get the necessary skills to get it, including literacy skills. However, some animals stood out more than other, teaching each others.
4. – Boxer was the most powerful worker of the farm, in spite of the farm problems he always said “I will work harder” and because of that all animals liked him.
- But one day, Boxer fall ill and the animals call for a van to take him to Willington’s hospital. However, something don´t occur the way that they had thought. (“Good-bye, Boxer! (...) Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van? (...) Boxer! Get out! Get out quickly! They are taking you to your death!”) The van was a van of the Willington’s Horse Slaughterer! And because of this, the farm looses his most dedicated worker.
5. – At the end of the story all rules changed, because some animals behavior change, mainly, when begin a contest to be the leader of the farm (Napoleon).
- This dispute approached some animals to human beings, something that, at the beginning, they want to extinct, when all animals were equal, but this changing made... “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS”. At the end we see that the approach with human beings destroys all the principles that they had built. (“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig: but already it was impossible to say which was which.”)
