Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Entry 7




7. Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? Or disturbing? Or memorable? Describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.

Animal Farm was the setting that I have found beautiful and memorable. It takes place at an unspecified time on a British farm near Willington, a town that is mentioned only in passing. The farm is first called Manor Farm, later renamed Animal Farm and, finally, Manor Farm once more. The farm lends a perfect rural, pastoral, and nostalgic backdrop for Old Major's dream. The animals planned to make a windmill for better living. The windmill if the grand project that Snowball proposes for supplying the farm with electricity. Napoleon adopts this project himself after he chases Snowball off the farm. The animals spend years building the windmill out of stone, and it is destroyed twice, but when they do eventually get it working it is used to thresh corn rather than to give them electricity.

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