Animal Farm Vs Village

The Enormity of the Possible
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” The well known greek philosopher, Plato said that. To be like a child is to be innocent, and not know any better than what your taught. But, to be like men is to have knowledge and use your knowledge from past precedence to keep yourself going. However, that's not always how the story goes. This shows in M. Night Shyamalan's movie, The Village and George Orwell’s, Animal Farm when the learned fear what they cannot change and the innocent fear what they do not know. Animal farm and The Village both share the common theme, “To fear the unknown is acceptable
We can see this, for example, when Napoleon makes a rule that the hens must surrender their eggs, on page 86 of the book. “One Sunday morning, Squealer announced that the hens, who had just came to lay again, must surrender their eggs. Napoleon had accepted, through Whymper, a contract for 400 eggs a week...when the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry.” In this passage, Napoleon acts in a selfish manner. Based on further text in the book, we know that Napoleon’s overall fear is being unable to take care of the farm. An inference can be made that if Napoleon can not maintain the farm successfully, his pride will no longer flourish as it does. Stereotypically, pride is something that is hard to let go off and shows a status for an individual that deserves respect. We can see that Napoleon’s fear of not being able to take care of the farm all comes down to pride and
When Ivy and Lucius make plans to marry, Noah isn’t very keen on the idea. Knowing that Noah has a mental disability, he fell in love with Ivy. He was jealous of the two lovers, fearing that Ivy would no longer have time for him. This of course leads to the tragic stabbing of Luscius. This can be compared to the similar situation between Napoleon and Snowball, both stories of Envy and fear. Animal Farm and The Village both show how one can fear someone stronger and better than them. The two different stories advance on fear of others, and fear itself. Jealous strife, terror, and pride can hold back advancement of anyone. Some of these characters feared what they didn’t know, while others feared what they new to be possible. As Emile M. Cioran, a Romanian philosopher states, ‘We are afraid of the enormity of the