Building a Library: Pigs in literature

From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: August 28, 2005| Author: Lyall Watson | Copyright information

All animals are not equal. Some are more equal, more interesting, more likely to grasp the imagination. It was no accident that George Orwell cast pigs as the rulers of his farmyard. At one level, Animal Farm is a powerful political tract and a scathing satire on human folly, but it is also, and just as profoundly, a very effective fable in the Aesop tradition: the story of a dictatorial Berkshire boar named Napoleon who rose up on his own hind legs, squeaking: 'Four legs good, Two legs bad!"...

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