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Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.
“ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL. BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.” Page 81
I thought this quote was very significant and outstanding out of other passages from the Animal Farm because it achieves the greatest irony in this novella. This was one of the seven commandments, initially being “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL.” The pigs have added a detail to this commandment to justify their actions of the following: pigs carrying whips, pigs installing a telephone, pigs wearing clothes, and pigs standing with two feet. I think this was an irony Eric Blaire was trying to gradually portray. Readers were able to predict this was going to happen as the pigs started editing the seven commandments and becoming like human beings. When I first read this quote, like I read other edited commandments, I burst into laughter because some animals being more “equal” tells me that some animals are more important than other animals, which break the law of equality. This quote, therefore, tells me that equality was not achieved at the end even through the hard labors and rebellion against human beings. Hence, I thought this quote was inspiring.