Napoleon and Snowball originally strive to fulfil Old Major’s dreams but due to the self centeredness of Napoleon, among others, the tenets of Animalism are systematically undermined throughout the novel. Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka ridicules the hypocritical stances of society concerning racism. Similarly to the political cartoon, “Upgrading to cattle class” satirising the racial prejudice that is featured in society where Australians seemingly are more concerned about the treatment of cattle than the situation of Asylum seekers. Animal Farm expresses the nature of humanity through defamiliarisation, uncovering societal flaws through different characters representing different norms of society. Animal farm parodies the events of the Russian Revolution mocks humanity’s morally weak government foundations.
This ties in with the tiger representing nature ("dwelling in a forest of the night"). By asking what Immortal eye, he is beginning to tell of the majesty of the tiger by insinuating that only an immortal hand or eye. He does not ask, 'what hand or eye' but 'what immortal hand or eye' and that is an important distinction. This calls the reader to bring to mind not only the majesty of nature, as previously mentioned, but the question of where would such majesty come from? Not only that, but Blake here uses the word 'fearful' comparing again the tiger to nature, who's perfect balance could be described as symmetry.
Truly, it is a horrible story with gore and cannibalism but very similar to the story with animals. The only difference is that people played the role of the animals of the first story. The men more readily find the second story plausible, but do not want to believe it because it contains people eating people, gore, and violence different than that of the first story. Humans are favored and valued over the animals. Once Pi finishes telling his story to the insurance men, he asks them “which is the better story, the story with the animals or the story without the animals” (344).
The poem “The Tyger”, written by William Blake, is a poem that centers on evil’s ability in hiding behind a beautiful mask. Not only does the poet describe its physical characteristics, but shows confusion that occurs with such fear. Blake uses a questioning tone throughout the poem to exemplify his ideas and beliefs in the tiger’s origin and the reasons behind the creature’s physical appearances. In the first stanza, Blake shows the secrecy of the tiger by linking nature with its origin and its physical appearances. Blake makes this evident so that it’ll highlight the tiger’s eerie aura.
However, judging by the contrast in the animals in terms of the innocence of the lamb and the violent power of the tiger, Blake illuminates two sides of creation – the passivity of the lamb in the delicacy of its existence, and the overwhelming power of the tiger which shows the capacity for potency within nature, thus evoking the creative potential of God. In Blake’s “The Lamb”, the care with which the poet constructs his verse reflects the delicacy of the animal itself. Blake treats his subject with a gentleness that befits the animal. In the poem Blake speaks to the animal with a simplicity that is normally reserved for talking to the very young, asking the lamb in an almost playful manner “dost thou
“The Lamb” presents creation in a simplistic light of all things being made by God, where as “The Tyger” seeks to understand the motivation behind creation. As part of the larger work Songs of Experience, “The Tyger” exemplifies the Romantic period’s fascination with nature and imagination. Blake begins the poem by describing a tiger’s beautiful appearance yet evil disposition. He poses the question “What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry” (787)? Blake asks what kind of creator or specifically God intended when creating such a powerful, malicious beast.
Both have an animal as the subject and although the structures are different, both are in rhyming couplets. The metres are almost identical, each line having seven syllables, except for the first and last couplets of each stanza having only six syllables. Both poems are alike, they both question the animal, asking the lamb “Little Lamb who made thee.” and asking the tiger “What immortal hand or eye/Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” The poems both use imagery, that used in The Lamb being gentle “Soft as clothing wooly bright/Gave thee such a tender voice”. This contrasts with the imagery used in The Tyger which is much darker “What the hammer? What chain/In what furnace was thy brain?” However both poems are linked through their biblical references, in The Tyger, “What immortal hand or eye.” and “When the stars threw down their spears/And water’d heaven with their tears.”, then in The Lamb, “He is meek
Within my two chosen poems, Hughes’ distinctive style is evident throughout. Second Glance at a Jaguar is a poem about a caged jaguar. Although the majority of Hughes’ poetry presents the power and dominance of nature opposed to that of man. The jaguar is considered as majestic and regal, however in this particular poem it is portrayed as weak and graceless. This is evident where Hughes writes “A gorged look, Gangster club-tail lumped along behind gracelessly”.
That stimulates another sense, hearing, and makes it aesthetically pleasing to listen to since it is a song. As a song of innocence, the poem has a sense of rhythm and fluidity is created making it sound more like a song or hymn. The following lines have a rhyme scheme of ABAB with the first and third line having eight syllables in them and the second and fourth line having six syllables in them: Then every man of every clime, That prays in his distress
I believe that it is cruel to keep animals in cages First of all, everyone has witnessed animal cruelty before, whether it is the neglect of a pet dog or cat or animals being captured and caged for unjust and unexplained research. For example, a tiger being captured , his habitat is wide open savannas, how would he feel being locked up in a cage that has little, let enough space for running around, hunting or surviving. This is just another sign for the restriction of freedom for animals, for those who don’t understand the seriousness of the situation towards the animal, let’s just say it was you, caged up, no space to really roam around, nothing to do, you would go insane after a while, this is exactly the same for tigers and many other types of animals. People may argue that animals seem fine when they’re caged up at a zoo; the fact is this is only part of the whole picture. Trying to assess cruelty is made all the more difficult because we do not always know, and cannot always see, what becomes of the animals at night when all the people have gone home.