An interesting thing I noticed on the character analysis page about a minor character, Mollie, from Animal Farm. The analysis says it is confusing what or who she represents in Russia but that is really unimportant to me. What caught my attention and it is something is that she is a conformist in the beginning which is exactly the type of thought process I want to question in my paper! However she is one of the few characters in the book who escapes because she understands that the conditions are worse after the revolution. Here is what the website had to say, "In either case, Mollie was never really in favor of the revolution. She went along with it, but she didn't actually engage in the fighting. Mollie didn't mind being a 'servant' to the humans, since she was constantly being pampered by them...She eventually flees the animal farm to live elsewhere in Willingdon." (http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/go-animal_farm.html) This shows that she went along with it in the beginning but fleas to find a better life. This made me wonder if she would have had the sense to flea if the humans didn't treat her so nicely. Probably not.
Another thing I noticed from the analysis of Boxer that I hadn't thought of before is that Boxer uses circular reasoning a lot. He convinces himself of many things because he finds it rational with circular reasoning.
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