1. B 2. E 3. B 4. E 5. D 6. A 7. A 8. C 9. B 10. E 11. A 12. B 13. D
14. C 15. A 16. B 17. C 18. B 19. E 20. B 21. E 22. E 23. D 24. A 25. E
26. A 27. D 28. C 29. A 30. C 31. C 32. B 33. D 34. B 35. E 36. E 37. B
38. A 39. C 40. C 41. D 42. A 43. B 44. A 45. E 46. E 47. A 48. D 49. C
50. B 51. C 52. A 53. E 54. C 55. A 56. B 57. A 58. D 59. D 60. D 61. A
Essay Question 1
Leisure is gone -- gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow waggons, and the pedlars, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons." Leisure is supposed to bring relaxation to the world, but there is no more relaxation. George Eliot describes 'leisure' as the creator of "a vacuum for eager thought to rush it". And sure this is true because once the leisure rushes in we as humans start to think that we know have time to much more. But real leisure is relaxing without any pressure at hand and no worries, which is more 'old leisure'. Eliot prefers the old leisure over the leisure that he observes in his time and shows it through personification.
"Old Leisure was quite a different personage." Eliot describes the old leisure in a very unique way by personifying it as a human. In this way he is able to fully describe what the old leisure was and why, to him at least, it was a more appropriate and a better way to live your life with leisure. "He lived chiefly in the country, among pleasant seats and homesteads, and was fond of sauntering by the fruit-tree wall, and scenting the apricots when they were warmed by the morning sunshine, or of sheltering himself under the orchard boughs at noon, when the summer pears were falling." This extended description of the old leisure as a human shows how relaxed he was and how he lived life in peace and harmony out in the countryside. He wasn't rushing to the trains every morning to go do something, but to enjoy the peace that was bestowed upon him through the old leisure and relaxation.
As you can see Eliot deeply believed that the old leisure was a far better way to use the time of life than the newly constructed idea of leisure where you are frantically running around trying to get more things done. In her society she truly thought this to be true and to show it, she personified it, giving it human qualities of that of a man who lived in the way of the old leisure to get her point across. And in a way it is one of the most effective ways because many people can relate to the 'Old Leisure' and his life of rest and relaxation as the key way to live.
Essay Question 2
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a great example of a novel that advocates changes in political attitudes and traditions. Orwell turns an ordinary farm of animals into one of the greatest and most historic novels in history because it shows the flaws in the communist idea. He definitely uses personification of the animals to show the undying flaws of communism.
In Animal Farm the farm animals impeach there old ruler and start up a new life with their own government which happens to closely resemble communism. By personifying the farm animals more and more throughout the story and having them slowly become more human, Orwell shows that slowly but gradually in a communist nation that eventually there will be another ruler that rises to power from the ground up. The pigs in the story soon appear as the dominant race of the lot because of their intelligence and become known as the leaders. In the story the animals vow to never become like the people who once ruled them, humans, and that all the animals would be treated alike and fairly. But slowly and gradually the pigs start to become more and more like humans by gaining more and more power. This is just like the start of communism because it is based around the idea of equal rights and at first communism was that way. But in time there soon began to be people who would rise to power in the communist nation that would be much higher in status and wealthier than all the rest. These were the pigs who slowly gained power by becoming more human.
In the end, Orwell tried to show the flaws in communism by showing the flaws in the government run by the farm animals. By personifying these farm animals and giving them human thought processes he was able to show the great differences that were once unknown to the world. And how the change from one political idea turned into one that was far from what once expected.
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