Name: ‘Of Course Name: Advanced English Date: Nov 24, 2003 Black Beauty Black Beauty was written by the British author Anna Sewell (182 O! a! a 1878).
It was finished in 1877 and it was her only book. Because of an injury in her childhood, she became invalid and had to rely on a carriage drawn by horse for transportation. With the help of horses in her childhood, she had a strong love for them and also had a strong will to let out the true lives of them in order to expose the how cruelly the human beings treat their animal friends. (1) This novel was written in first person style about the whole life with twists and turns of a horse — — Black Beauty. He is born in a large pleasant meadow of a fazenda and he is taught to be gentle and good by his mother.
His parents both have a great name in good temper, so he learns manners from childhood he never even kicks or bites in play. As his owner of that fazenda is a good and kind man, he has a happy time. It has all gone, however, since he grows up. He is sold from one owner to another and each owner seems to have a worse temper.
From a horse of a gentleman to a coolie horse, he experiences a lot. He finally knows how hard to be a horse and how cruel the humans are. As a horse Black Beauty doesn! t have a real freedom, he has to wear a saddle and a bridle even wear a collar, a crupper, and a breeching. Even he has a kind owner, still he cannot escape the destine that he is only a horse. He has to be broken in that means he has to be taught what a horse should wear and to obey his owner. So from the beginning, we suffer what he suffers and we enjoy we he enjoys.
The Review on Black Beauty Book Report
Some say that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. This cliche holds appropriately true for Black Beauty, a novel written and popularized by the crippled writer Anna Sewell (1877). The book tells about the life story of a horse. It answers a person’s curiosity about how a horse feels while surviving the cruelty of men. A heart-wrenching, beautiful, and enlightening tale and animal autobiography, ...
Also there is a fear in Black Beauty towards his future, especially when a new owner appears. He will wonder: Will he be as kind as his first owner? or will he be as stupid or cruel as his former owner. Facing the fatuity and barbarity of human being, Black Beauty feels helpless and he cannot even escape from this. In his childhood, the first time for him to see the death is in a hunt, when a horse dies, it is just for hunting for hares.
And even in the near future, he gets to know that the dead horse is his unknown brother. What a sad scene, as I have read here. Also it is his first time to know that humans are also cruel even the joy of humans are based on the death of animals. There are also horses of bad tempers, however, for Black Beauty these horses are even better than humans, because some owners are so stupid that they vent on the horses when they cannot do things right. So no matter how good a horse is, it cannot get the candid treatment. So that is the problem that Anna Sewell opposes.
The author gives the horse speaking ability to express her will for animals. The author was a animal lover especially horses which accompanies with her for nearly a whole life, so she spent about 8 years finishing this book even when she was ill in bed. Unfortunately, she died soon after the book was published. So this book emphasizes on humanity.
Therefore, it influences the readers from generation to generation and is well-known. It tells us to love animals, to treat them well and we should show our mercy to them, but not our inexorability. Animals cannot speak for themselves, therefore human should think of the right of the animals, otherwise one day we will suffer the punishment of the nature. As the author gives us a lively feeling of a horse, the readers easily imagines and ponders. It also gives space to judge the characteristics of the figures in the book and the humanity behind book. When we are delight with joy of Black Beauty, we also experience the suffering in his mind.
What is more, it is not only a book about horses or their relationship with human, but also the book forming a vivid life of the ordinary life in the 1870! s the carriages rushing through the streets with gentlemen in it, the trade of horse market and hustle and bustle on the streets. Through the delineation by the author, we will admire her for her kindness towards animals and her mercifulness.
The Essay on Animals Human Humans Moreau People
The question is not can they reason, not can they speak, but can they suffer? - [quote Jeremy Bentham] It is estimated that 33 humans die each second in laboratories world wide. Shocked? Don't be, because it's not actually 33 humans that die each second, it is 33 animals; consisting of - cats, dogs, primates, rabbits, rat and mice. Between twenty and seventy million animals suffer and die in the ...
