"Animal Farm"
The mood of the characters in the story was very happy because they thought they were doing everything to the best quality due to their leader's guidance. The animals always thought that their leader Napolean was doing his best providing for them, and sheltering them. As I read this story, I was deeply saddened. As a reader, I knew the fact that Napolean was only caring for the pigs, and almost all of the things he did was to support and provide for the pigs. The animals deserved a lot more than they were being paid for their labor. The pigs were worse supervisors than Mr. Jones, so as I was reading through the book, I constantly thought how it would've been better for the animals to have appreciated and accepted Mr. Jones of his treatment toward them. In the end, the pigs betrayed their fellow animals for power and comfort.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Mood
Main Characters
"Animal Farm"
The main characters of "Animal Farm" are Snowball and Napolean. They're both pigs, and took major leads when they overthrew Mr. Jones and claimed the farm for themselves.
Snowball had good ideas. If he had a country to run, then the country would have a democratic government system. He believed that the fellow animals should have a say in how their farm should run, believed that it would be necessary to have a meeting to distribute jobs, have meetings and have a conference, and he believed that the fellow animals should have a say in what decisions were to be made in the farm.
Napolean is a pig who became a leader after he got rid of Snowball. Napolean was a pig whose ideas differed greatly from ideas of Snowball. Napolean's country would've been ran by a communistic government because he believed that he had the complete power to decide who was better than others, who deserved more than others, and most importantly, who was more equal than others. Napolean basically brainwashed the fellow animals, using a pig named Squealer, into believing everything that he believed were correct.
Settings
"Animal Farm"
The story of Animal Farm took place in a world where animals are capable of logic, and have the capability of surviving by themselves. The animals learned how to read and write, how to take care and run a farm, and how to negotiate and plan a rebellion against humans, and create their own government. In the end of the book, the pigs even have fun with human beings by playing poker, telling each other jokes, and even drinking with them.
In this type of world, the story takes in an animal farm called the Manor Farm. The farm used to belong to a farmer named Mr. Jones. For a while, the Manor Farm has been known as the Animal Farm, but after Snowball was chased away from the Animal Farm and Napolean became the leader of the farm, the farm became known as the Manor Farm again.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Entry #3: What qualities would you like to have as a Greed god or goddess?
If I had a choice, I would probably choose to have the quality of Poseidon, the god of water, sea, ocean, HO2, and ect. I've always like the power given to Poseidon, because he's one of few gods that could both award and punish human beings. He has the power to bring raging storm of water and destroy human shelters, or even send beasts of the sea to punish, or even kill the human beings. On the contrary, he can provide sailors with waves that are good enough to sail, provide humans with fish to eat, and keep humans safe from the beasts of the sea. I especially like the trident that Poseidon always seems to carry on murals, paintings, and many other artistic works. The trident seems to make him more than he is. It gives him the look of having authority, and makes him look powerful, and infallable. I've always believed the trident to be some sort of magical wand that is used by rulers of the sea. It is seen and portrayed as a symbol of power. The only purpose of the trident is to manipulate the water, which is a very appropriate weapon a sea god should be carrying. If I had a chance, I would like to have the power of Poseidon.
(I just wrote what I knew)
Monday, March 10, 2008
Entry #2: Greek monsters
Chimera
Chimera is a mythical monster that was made of many parts of different animals. In Homer, a Chimera is described as "a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and snorting out the breath of the terrible flame of bright fire." By many versions of myths, and many myth writers, Chimera is known to be a female from the beginning, although it has a mane on its lion face. Chimera was once known to be the sign of storms, shipwrecks, and natural disasters but mostly volcanoes. The Chimera defeated many heroes, and ended up killing most of them. It was finally defeated by a hero named Bellerophon with the help of Pegasus. Since Pegasus has wings and therefore can fly, he shot the Chimera with an arrow from a safe distance in the air where the Chimera isn't able to reach to hurt him. Bellerophon was commanded to fight offthe Chimera by king lobates of Lycia, whose original intenstion was to kill Bellerophon. Chimera was a motivation of many vase makers, who design their vases with mythical beings (shown above).
Citation:
Wikipedia, "Chimera (mythology)." Wikipedia 9 March 2008 11 March 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Entry #1: Greek god
Eros
This is Eros, the god of love. He usually uses his powers to make fun of people. The golden makes the victim fall in love with the first person that they see, and the silver arrow makes the victim hate the fist person who they see. Eros usually uses a combination of these two arrows, to make a person suffer with unbearable love toward another person, while that person who is being loved hates the person incredibly. The god of sun, Apollo, had to suffer from this, when he made fun of the tiny arrow of Eros. Eros was the son of Aphrodite (goddess of love) and Ares (god of war.) The major role of Eros in the mythology is to be the attendant of Aphrodite. Eros is the "troublemaker" of the mythology, probably because of his young age. He sometimes gets in a way of the destinies set by the gods, or sometimes ignores his mother, and doesn't create a love relationship that was meant to be between the two people. Eros is usually depicted as a young, naked boy with wings but in some variations of the story, he wears a blindfold due to the proverb "love is blind," and is described as bittersweet, or cruel, because he tortures the mortals and sometimes immortals as well, with his gift of being able to give, or take away love.
Citation:
Wikipedia, "Eros." Wikipedia 8 March 2008 10 March 2008
