What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Animal Farm]]'', the good guys are cuddly horses and dogs and the like, while the poor old downtrodden proletariat are fluffy, easily led sheep, dull-witted horses, and quirky chickens. Tellingly, the puppies become vicious, unhuggable Rottweiler types as they become more indoctrinated to Napoleon the pig's side. And Moses the raven is, of course, ambiguous. As far as the pigs, even the implicitly cute little Snowball was not as okay as he seemed; during the turning point of the novel (when the pigs claimed the apples and milk for themselves), even Snowball's own greed was apparent, as this was one of the few issues that both he and Napoleon could agree upon. The book itself says that the pigs were chosen as the leaders due to the fact that they're the smartest animals on the farm, which is [[Truth in Television]]. Symbolically, they were also most likely chosen for their association with greed.

** It's also worth noting that pigs are the [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|most human-like]] of the animals one usually finds on a farm, which is why they're used in forensics tests and such.

* In ''Yvain'', an Arthurian chivalric romance, the hero comes upon a fight between a dragon and a lion. He chooses to step in and help the ''lion'', specifically because, "...[[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|a venomous and wicked creature deserves only harm]]: the dragon was venomous and fire leapt from its mouth because it was so full of wickedness." Nice and subtle that.

** That sounds like it's as much "unnatural fire-breathing monstrosities must be the work of the devil" as it is "[[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]"