Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Too many pigs...
On page 116 I noticed that 31 young pigs were born on the farm. 31 is a ridiculous number when talking about babies...and I'm sure all the piglets will survive because the pigs have the best standard of living on the entire farm. 31 pigs.... That can't be good for the farm. When you think of all the pigs as potential rulers, then the possibility of a power struggle arises. With 31 pigs, I would say that such a thing is likely, especially since the book says all the pigs were born at once, and thus are the same age. Also, the pigs don't do any work. They sit there, and eat and sleep and get fat all day. With so many pigs (and I'm sure all 31 pigs are going to have kids of their own eventually), how is the farm going to provide enough food or money to feed everyone. With 31 pigs eating so much and doing no work, it seems that animal farm is destined to fail, but that's just my opinion.
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I disagree. If you think about it, Napoleon likely wouldn't let anyone but himself mate. That automatically splits the number of potential mating pigs in half, to 15 or 16. In addition, Napoleon has the power to hand pick the pig to be his successor. Also, the other pigs will likely be so comfortable doing no work and reaping all the benefits that there would be no reason to fight over power, right? And about your comment that Animal Farm is destined to fail, I think it already has...
ReplyDeleteTrue, I suppose it has failed in a way. but Napoleon won't live forever, and afterwards, the remaining pigs can reproduce all they want.
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