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."Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again but already it was impossible to say which was which." (Pg. 85)
This passage is very meaningful to this novel, because it shows the complete transition of the pigs becoming humans. In the beginning, the pigs, with Napoleon at the head, were the ones who instated the saying, "Four legs good, two legs bad," meaning that anything on two legs, the humans, are bad, and anything on four legs, the animals, are good. However, the pigs' attitudes started to change over the course of the novel. They started to become more like humans, and the largest hint that they were about to becoming exactly like people was when the pigs changed the saying to "Four legs good, two legs better."
I think this passage not only showed the pigs final transition into becoming just like humans, but also their final transformation into becoming hypocrites. The pigs were the ones who said that they were living a harsh life under the humans, and also said that, under Napoleon's rule, they will have a better life. However, in the end, all the pigs became just like humans, forcing the animals to do hard labor and making their lives even more miserable than when Jones had been in charge of the farm. This part of the novel angered me the most, because I absolutely loathe anyone who says that doing a particular thing is bad, and then they go and do it themselves.
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