Animal Farm #6

Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful?

"It was a pig walking on his hind legs."(p.188)

This passage was the most significant passage throughout the whole book to me. The reason was because the pigs who started all the ideas and conflicts that are against humans stood on two legs and wore clothes. Their seven commandaments for Animal Farm was to not wear any clothes, not drink, smoke, or walk on two legs. However, they started to depend on the help of humans as they started to realize that they are going to be going through hard times. They began to rely and trust on humans, and that led them to wear fine clothes and have ribbons on their necks. Morevoer, they started to walk on two legs which is kind of impossible for them. It was both funny and shocking to me. How could pigs, who usually walk on four legs, just start to walk on two legs just because they want to be like humans and adjust to humans? Weren't they the ones who told all the animals that they should be free from humans and that they should never act or live like humans? It was just ridiculous to me to see how those foolish pigs just do silly things to be more close to humans. Well, it was all because for their own sake and survival, however, I do not understand how they changed their minds so quickly like that. Also, I was very disappointed even though I didn't like them from the beginning because they looked more evil and vicious to me while I was reading this passage. In our real lives, we sometimes tend to try to be like someone who are popular or powerful among the others. This means that you don't have your individuality and personality of your own because you are doing what the world tells you to do, not what you choose and want to do.