door wim600008149 » di 22 nov 2005, 20:59
Orwell zegt inderdaad niet veel over Moses' terugkeer. Wat me opvalt is
dat hij, net zoals voorheen, zjn "preken" over
Sugarcandy Mountain
naar de andere dieren toe herhaalt.
De enige reactie van de varkens is de openbare weerlegging van Mozes'
woorden, die zij zelfs leugens noemen, maar tegelijkertijd wordt zelfs
niet alleen zijn aanwezigheid aanvaard, maar tevens het feit dat hij niet
werkt. Meer nog, hij krijgt dagelijks een portie bier (iets wat, dacht ik
toch, de andere dieren niet krijgen).
Opvallend is dat Orwell zelfs de nadruk blijkt te leggen op deze tegen-
strijdigheid, en het daaruit voortvloeiende logische feit dat de
dieren daar niet echt aan uit kunnen :
A thing that was difficult to
determine was the attitude of the pigs towards Moses. Hij begint daar
zelfs mee, pas daarna vertelt hij ons
waarom de dieren het zo moei-
lijk hadden met het gedrag van de varkens.
George Orwell schreef:In the middle of the summer Moses the raven suddenly reappeared on the
farm, after an absence of several years. He was quite unchanged, still did
no work, and talked in the same strain as ever about Sugarcandy
Mountain. He would perch on a stump, flap his black wings, and talk by the
hour to anyone who would listen. ‘Up there, comrades,’ he would say
solemnly, pointing to the sky with his large beak — ‘up there, just on the
other side of that dark cloud that you can see — there it lies, Sugarcandy
Mountain, that happy country where we poor animals shall rest for ever
from our labours!’ He even claimed to have been there on one of his
higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the
linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges. Many of the animals
believed him. Their lives now, they reasoned, were hungry and laborious;
was it not right and just that a better world should exist somewhere else? A
thing that was difficult to determine was the attitude of the pigs towards
Moses. They all declared contemptuously that his stories about Sugarcandy
Mountain were lies, and yet they allowed him to remain on the farm, not
working, with an allowance of a gill of beer a day.
Orwell zegt inderdaad niet veel over Moses' terugkeer. Wat me opvalt is
dat hij, net zoals voorheen, zjn "preken" over [i]Sugarcandy Mountain[/i]
naar de andere dieren toe herhaalt.
De enige reactie van de varkens is de openbare weerlegging van Mozes'
woorden, die zij zelfs leugens noemen, maar tegelijkertijd wordt zelfs
niet alleen zijn aanwezigheid aanvaard, maar tevens het feit dat hij niet
werkt. Meer nog, hij krijgt dagelijks een portie bier (iets wat, dacht ik
toch, de andere dieren niet krijgen).
Opvallend is dat Orwell zelfs de nadruk blijkt te leggen op deze tegen-
strijdigheid, en het daaruit voortvloeiende logische feit dat de
dieren daar niet echt aan uit kunnen : [i]A thing that was difficult to
determine was the attitude of the pigs towards Moses.[/i] Hij begint daar
zelfs mee, pas daarna vertelt hij ons [i]waarom[/i] de dieren het zo moei-
lijk hadden met het gedrag van de varkens.
[quote='George Orwell'][i]In the middle of the summer Moses the raven suddenly reappeared on the
farm, after an absence of several years. He was quite unchanged, still did
no work, and talked in the same strain as ever about Sugarcandy
Mountain. He would perch on a stump, flap his black wings, and talk by the
hour to anyone who would listen. ‘Up there, comrades,’ he would say
solemnly, pointing to the sky with his large beak — ‘up there, just on the
other side of that dark cloud that you can see — there it lies, Sugarcandy
Mountain, that happy country where we poor animals shall rest for ever
from our labours!’ He even claimed to have been there on one of his
higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the
linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges. Many of the animals
believed him. Their lives now, they reasoned, were hungry and laborious;
was it not right and just that a better world should exist somewhere else? A
thing that was difficult to determine was the attitude of the pigs towards
Moses. They all declared contemptuously that his stories about Sugarcandy
Mountain were lies, and yet they allowed him to remain on the farm, not
working, with an allowance of a gill of beer a day.[/i][/quote]
