Imaginative Literature: Selections from the Twentieth Century
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“Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. And remember also that in fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices. No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade. All the habits of Man are evil. And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.” (Pages 479–480)
“‘Godot is not despair, but life—aimless, but always with an element of hope.’ He also said that Godot does not stand for God.” (Page 528)
“‘Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours?” (Page 478)
“Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings. There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word—Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.” (Page 478)
“It had come to be accepted that the pigs, who were manifestly cleverer than the other animals, should decide all questions of farm policy, though their decisions had to be ratified by a majority vote.” (Page 492)
- Title: Imaginative Literature: Selections from the Twentieth Century
- Authors: Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O’Neill, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett
- Edition: Second Edition
- Series: Great Books of the Western World
- Volume: 60
- Publishers: Robert P. Gwinn, Encyclopedia Britannica
- Print Publication Date: 1990
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Literature › Collections
- ISBNs: 0852295316, 9780852295311
- Resource ID: LLS:GBWW60
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:11:55Z