Summary Of Guest Column: Why Animals Now

Why do people call the cops “pigs” in the form of an insult? “Taken up by protestors, the term ‘pig’ had been used early as the mid-1500s to refer to a person who is heartily disliked.” A staff member of Straight Dope Science Advisory answers this question stating that the name runs back to the early police force, Bow Street Runner. The characters that pigs or snakes typically symbolizes are considered human’s unacceptable behavior. Pigs are often depicted as a character who’s unclean, greedy, and conceited; being the displeasing character in stories or in religions. Marianne DeKoven, who wrote the article “Guest Column: Why Animals Now?”, explains how anthropomorphism removes the animal’s real purpose in this world. “All literary representations of animals no more form a unified or even meaningful category than do those of women or the working class.”(363) She claims that it is belittling the
the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves”, to represent the uprising Russian Revolution during a Communist society. Orwell wanted to let people know that even though it sounded good in the beginning it was no different to the rules in the past, they alter it to their bidding. In the book, the pigs were manipulative, selfish against the other animals, and showed greed. They were not as lazy because they were the leaders, but they did not do any work. The pigs were acting just like the other human farmers, taking the produce from the animals without putting in labor. Orwell quoted towards the end, “Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike…The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”(155). After years of the pigs treating the other animals unfair, it was claimed they could not tell the difference between man and