Mollie from Animal farm is a self-absorbed horse that only cares about her materialistic obsessions and beauty, she places her own priorities and needs above others and was used by the author to represent the selfish vain people of the Russian revolution. These people cared nothing for change and sided with any country that could offer them provisions and benefits. I am a person who believes in change and places others needs above my own, I consider myself to be very selfless. By way of comparison my beliefs and morals are nothing like this characters. I shall be contrasting and comparing myself with Mollie in three distinctive ways. The significance to comparing myself to such a character is to answer a larger question about how literature
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This is an interesting question because it allows for people to open up and reflect on past experiences and expand their thoughts by analyzing certain traits about their behavior and personality, causing them to dig deep and discover information they’ve never really thought they knew about themselves. Readers reflect back to their self-definition and this allows them to grow as individuals.
Mollie and I have different perspectives about how people should be treated and the way we interact and approach others is dissimilar. Her first appearance in the novel suggests her personality when she enters the meeting at the last moment, chewing sugar and sitting in the front so that the others will be able to admire the red ribbons she wears in her mane. Before the start of the revolution when the pigs were introducing the idea of animalism, Mollie asked questions to make sure her interests would be protected and it exhibited just how greedy she truly was, her main focus was maintaining her prized possession’s. “ Will there be sugar after …show more content…
“Mollie in fact was missing, for a moment there was great alarm, it was feared that the men might have harmed her in some way. In the end however it was found she was hiding in her stall, with her head buried among the hay in the manager‘ “(Orwell, 10). Mollie was a selfish coward. Her protection was the number one priority; she could care less about the animals who had to risk their lives to protect their conquered land. In such an intense battle the animals could have used all the help they could get, however Mollie was nowhere to be found. Here this character and I have different personality traits, unlike her I never step down to a challenge when people need me no matter how frightened I may be feeling. I am courageous and leadership like. Incidentally last year on the same camping trip with my school, there was a rival group of students who wanted to take our camp location. They were from an expensive prep academy and demanded that we give them our spot immediately. As the courageous individual that I am, I decided to approach the teachers and student leaders to resolve the conflict, instead of ignoring the issue, and disappointing my peers. We agreed that the winners of a dodge ball match would keep the space for the rest of the weekend. Dodge ball is a game that I have hated for years since I always
This is an interesting question because it allows for people to open up and reflect on past experiences and expand their thoughts by analyzing certain traits about their behavior and personality, causing them to dig deep and discover information they’ve never really thought they knew about themselves. Readers reflect back to their self-definition and this allows them to grow as individuals.
Mollie and I have different perspectives about how people should be treated and the way we interact and approach others is dissimilar. Her first appearance in the novel suggests her personality when she enters the meeting at the last moment, chewing sugar and sitting in the front so that the others will be able to admire the red ribbons she wears in her mane. Before the start of the revolution when the pigs were introducing the idea of animalism, Mollie asked questions to make sure her interests would be protected and it exhibited just how greedy she truly was, her main focus was maintaining her prized possession’s. “ Will there be sugar after …show more content…
“Mollie in fact was missing, for a moment there was great alarm, it was feared that the men might have harmed her in some way. In the end however it was found she was hiding in her stall, with her head buried among the hay in the manager‘ “(Orwell, 10). Mollie was a selfish coward. Her protection was the number one priority; she could care less about the animals who had to risk their lives to protect their conquered land. In such an intense battle the animals could have used all the help they could get, however Mollie was nowhere to be found. Here this character and I have different personality traits, unlike her I never step down to a challenge when people need me no matter how frightened I may be feeling. I am courageous and leadership like. Incidentally last year on the same camping trip with my school, there was a rival group of students who wanted to take our camp location. They were from an expensive prep academy and demanded that we give them our spot immediately. As the courageous individual that I am, I decided to approach the teachers and student leaders to resolve the conflict, instead of ignoring the issue, and disappointing my peers. We agreed that the winners of a dodge ball match would keep the space for the rest of the weekend. Dodge ball is a game that I have hated for years since I always