Self Preservation
Lilla Lovas
Honors Literature
Summer Reading Assignment
2 August 2013
(title) Everyone has some sort of a natural instinct. For us human beings, it's called human nature. Human nature is in everything that we do, and in each thing we do, a different trait comes out. One such trait is self-preservation, which comes forward in many cases throughout the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. Self-preservation can also take many forms such as loyalty, selfishness, approval seeking, deception, et cetera. I see all these characteristics of self-preservation in the character of Squealer the pig, Napoleon's right hand man. Squealer uses the authority given to him to trick the animals into doing what he wants, and into believing that the things he is doing will benefit all the animals in the end, when in truth, they don't. Squealer shows his self-preservation skills by taking actions to keep power and protect himself.
First off, we see self-preservation in Squealer in how deceptive he is towards his fellow animals. He tricks them everyday into thinking everything was going great and prospering, when really it wasn't at all. He gave the animals speeches on how everything they were doing was to keep Jones, the farmer they overthrew, from coming back, even when obviously it had nothing to do with Jones. "Comrades!" he cried. "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones
Honors Literature
Summer Reading Assignment
2 August 2013
(title) Everyone has some sort of a natural instinct. For us human beings, it's called human nature. Human nature is in everything that we do, and in each thing we do, a different trait comes out. One such trait is self-preservation, which comes forward in many cases throughout the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. Self-preservation can also take many forms such as loyalty, selfishness, approval seeking, deception, et cetera. I see all these characteristics of self-preservation in the character of Squealer the pig, Napoleon's right hand man. Squealer uses the authority given to him to trick the animals into doing what he wants, and into believing that the things he is doing will benefit all the animals in the end, when in truth, they don't. Squealer shows his self-preservation skills by taking actions to keep power and protect himself.
First off, we see self-preservation in Squealer in how deceptive he is towards his fellow animals. He tricks them everyday into thinking everything was going great and prospering, when really it wasn't at all. He gave the animals speeches on how everything they were doing was to keep Jones, the farmer they overthrew, from coming back, even when obviously it had nothing to do with Jones. "Comrades!" he cried. "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones