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Explain the meaning of this quote from Orwell's Animal Farm: "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
The quote "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which" from Orwell's
Animal Farm shows that in the end, the pigs act so much like humans that they have become indistinguishable from humans. This is meant to warn readers to hold onto the power they have in society, lest the ruling classes repeat the abuses of the past.
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In the final chapter of
Animal Farm, the pigs erase the last remnants of Animalism. The animals can hardly remember a time when they dreamed of heated stalls or retirement. Their lives are filled with endless work and hunger, work and hunger. The final straw is when the pigs reduce the Seven Commandments of Animalism to one:
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
After this, the pigs show up to the farm carrying whips, and nobody protests. They install a radio ("wireless") and a phone in the farmhouse where they now live.
Napoleon shows up wearing human clothes, which was once forbidden, and "his favorite sow" wears one of Mrs. Jones's watered silk dresses.
When human farmers come to visit, they are impressed with how much work the pigs get out of the other animals. Napoleon gives a speech in which he disavows the farm's radical past and asserts they have the same conservative views as the other farmers. The animals no longer call each other comrade.
Finally, the pigs and the humans begin to play cards. As some of the other animals peep through the window and watch the players quarrel, they suddenly can't distinguish the pigs from the humans. The book ends on the quote above, in which the animals find it impossible to tell pigs from men.
The quote means that the pigs have so closely followed all human behavior that they have become indistinguishable from humans. They might call themselves pigs, but they no longer act like animals. All the dreams of equality and building a newer, better world in which animals would get ahead materially and have dignity have been erased. Farmer Jones might as well have never been overthrown.
This is a commentary on the way the ideals of communism were betrayed under Stalin, who set up a dictatorship in which a small class of Party members lived very well and the rest of the population did not. On a more universal level, it is a warning that ordinary people in society must not give up their power, or gradually, their rulers will repeat all the excesses of the past.