Mood *Animal Farm*

What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way?
-The mood of ‘Animal Farm’ in the beginning is quite comic and ironic, but as it goes through, the story becomes tragic. There is akso some sarcasm in the story. I enjoyed the story when I read this novel for the first time, thinking it was just a story about the animals acting like humans. But I changed my mind when I read it once more and people around me told about the real theme inside the book. With the hidden theme, the mood of the novel also changed. The fact that people are tempted by power/control made me very sad. Didn’t Napoleon rebel against Mr. Jones with his comrades to gain freedom? But when Mr. Jones disappeared, he began to act the same way or even worse than Mr. Jones. The only difference to the farm is that the leader is now a pig, one of their comrades, not a human.

Also, it was very tragic to read about Napoleon selling Boxer to the butchery. Poor Boxer! Boxer was one of the best workers, but instead of the freedom he wanted, he had to die in the butchery because of his comrade Napoleon. It was especially doleful, because the animals (pigs) were fighting against each other for more power, while they should’ve been taken care of the others and fight against Mr. Jones, the humans not the animals.