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Do you find any touches of humour in Chapter 6 of "Animal Farm"?

(In Orwell's 'Animal Farm.')

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Posted by a12345 on Thursday December 18, 2008 at 11:05 PM and tagged with animal farm, chapter 6, comic relief, humour.

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  1. parkerlee
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    When various laws of the Seven Commandments are rewritten to accomodate the pigs' new lifestyle, one can't help but chuckle at the similarity between this incident and human behaviour. The gullibility of the animals, who do not notice this modification of the law as such, is very much akin to the lack of collective memory once people are under the sway of propaganda.

    The rewriting of the Seven Commandments is also a flagrant example of laws written "by the rich for the rich," such as provision for tax loopholes and other forms of fiscal evasion. In such a way Orwell aptly uses the fable form as a parody of politics, where "the privileged few" will do anything and everything to maintain their status quo.

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    Posted by parkerlee on Friday December 19, 2008 at 2:48 AM