Entry 5

5. What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? Why?

The mood varies from the comic to the tragic, with the overall mood being one of tension. The whole story is filled with irony and bitter sarcasm. In chapter two, the animals were very happy over the Rebellion because they just have made that they can’t believe it when it was over. In chapter tree, they were still happy in their work on Animal Farm even though it was hard because they made things successfully. If they felt unhappy, they wouldn’t work so hard (p. 17 "HOW THEY TOILED AND SWEATED to get hay in! But their efforts were rewarded, for the harvest was an even bigger success than they had hoped”). In chapter 7, the mood is pretty good even though the season was winter and they were starving because Squealer told the animals that they are free so they felt better. The animals have started the work again on the windmill. In chapter nine, the animals were hungry but when they listened to Squealer, who told them that they are getting more food than they got under Mr. Jones, they felt better. Many years passed by. The animals were dead and new ones were born. A lot of the past were forgotten (p.85 "Years passed...........and a number of the pigs."). The animals are having better now, because the farm was going very well. The animals felt upset and amazed because the pigs were walking out from the farmhouse on two legs. The story shows that everything is back to the beginning and it tells me that bad things are always following good things which are depressing and people get punishments for all bad things they have done. It also shows that people always end up with failing.