Question 5

What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? Why?

The authors always express their feelings through literature when writing, especially in writing novels or poems. Thus, there would be some kind of mood exist in the story in the novel ‘Animal Farm.’ The mood of the novel changes gradually and drastically yet not enormously. When the Old Major, a prize winning boar, was still alive, it can be learned that every animals depended on each other and were happy, except from fatigue and injuries from the hard work on the farm and whips of Mr. Jones. However, after the speeches made by Old Major about the Rebellion that he predicts and had taught the animals a song he remembered from his childhood called ‘Beasts of England,’ all the animals became anxious and somewhat excited about the fact that they would be free and everyone would be satisfied. The mood that the author had illustrated so far is full of excitement whereas some are anxious. As they thought what they had always desired the most, which was freedom, would become real they were excited. However, after the Rebellion, some works were required but the animals were still happy. In the contrary to that mood full of happiness, excitement, and anxiousness, later on in the story, when the Napoleon executed the animals that were in touch with Snowball, who was believed to be a traitor, the mood changed from happiness, excitement to full of fear, complete anxiousness, and sad.
To me, I did not find the mood of the novel very saddening, however, as the story went on, the change in the mood really did saddened me because I felt sympathy for those who were not guilty and simply desired true freedom. Yet they were punished and scared.