Human Interaction

Discuss the role of the humans in the second half of the book. Who do you think they represent? Why do they begin interacting with the farm and stop trying to regain control of it? Why do the pigs oblige? How does this interaction represent some aspect of the human condition?

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4 Responses to “Human Interaction”

  1. Moorea Says:
    January 21, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    I think the humans were all the people who assitated Stalin during Communist Russia and saw the evil doings but did nothing to stop them. They start interacting with the farm for eggs and hay and things like that and also i think they feel like the pigs are one of them and that they wont attack them if Napeolean won’t tell them to and Napolean needed the supplies for himself and the other pigs and a little for the other starving animals and they stoped trying to gain controll because they knew that they werent worth it and the pigs were like humans now and they could gain something from the suffering farm. the pigs oblige because the need supplies badly. We as humans trade together and sometimes feed of each other in a good way or in a bad way.

  2. Eric O Says:
    January 21, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    I think at first the humans are outraged by Animal farm and they oppose it. In the middle of the book the people think Animal farm is starving and they don’t really care. But as the book goes on the soon see the farm as a way to make money. And they want to take advantage of Napoleon and his ways. I think in this book it shows how greedy and corrupt people really are, at the end of the book the animals can’t tell the difference from the pigs and humans.

  3. Eric O Says:
    January 21, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    I agree with Moorea in some ways but I also disagree. I don’t think the humans assisted the pigs very much I feel they tried to use them.

  4. Alex C Says:
    January 21, 2009 at 8:11 pm

    According to the sources, people of other farms mean strong countries, such as Germany and America. Frederick symbolizes Adolf Hitler and his farm Pinchfield symbolizes Nazi-Germany(Not the Germany in today.). Mr. Pilkington symbolizes Roosevelt and Churchill and his farm Foxwood symbolizes the Great Britain and America.

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