Why is this passage meaningful?
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(Chapter 7) The grass and the bursting hedges were gilded by the level rays of the sun. Never had the farm-and with a kind of surprise they remembered that it was their own farm, every inch of it their own property-appeared to the animals so desirable a place. As Clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. If she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. These scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old Major first stirred them to rebellion. If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of Major's speech. Instead-she did not know why-they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. There was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. She knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of Jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings. Whatever happened she would remain faithful, work hard, carry out the orders that were given to her, and accept the leadership of Napoleon. But still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones's gun. Such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them.
At last, feeling this to be in some way a substitute for the words she was unable to find, she began to sing Beasts of England. The other animals sitting round her took it up, and they sang it three times over-very tunefully, but slowly and mournfully, in a way they had never sung it before.
This passage was meaningful to me because it talks about how Clover felt about the current situations. She feels sorrowful and confused. When the animal farm was first created, she dreamed of the peaceful society where everybody helped one another. That utopia never came to truth. It would be best if everyone helped one another and the stronger ones protect the weaker ones. Instead, the stronger ones became a threat to the weaker animals. The other animals do not dare to object because of them. The pigs used the nine fierce dogs to control the farm. Although Clover feels strongly that this is not the world she wants, she is determined that it is better than before when Jones controlled the farm. She simply feels satisfied because the humans are no longer in control, but pigs, who are animals, are in control. Because of this fact, she doesn’t notice that the pigs are turning in to humans. Not physically, but mentally. Although their bodies are that of a pig, their minds are like humans. That is the main reason why their sacrifices came to nothing even close to the world she wished for. Because she doesn’t realize this, she has no thought of disobedience. Maybe she wants to believe that all animals are equal and better days are yet to come. Although she thinks that the current situations are better than Jones’s time, she wants to get out of it. To comfort herself, she begins to sing Beasts of England. The song talks about the world that never came to them. Because it seems too far away and too good to be true, her tune becomes sorrowful and sad. It became a song of the world lost forever, an impossible world to come true.
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