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,… 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 you comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. (p.52)
This is the part where Clover and her friends go up the knoll after the execution in the barn. She recalls her hopes and wishes and thinks carefully what is happening right now. This passage gave me a strong impression about the feelings that the animals are going through. The animals that got executed where their friends and families. They were guilty because of some weird and small sins. Some of them were forced to say their sins which were made up. It is really a cruel thing to see dogs eating flesh and other animals smelling the blood spreading out in the barn.
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