In the essay The Rights of Animals, the essayist Brigid Bropy urges human beings to treat animals with due respect. She suggests people not to exploit animals for any reasons.
The Rights of Animals by Brigid Bropy [Summary and main points] BBS/BBA English Note
In the essay
"The Rights of Animals"
the essayist Brigid Bropy talks
about the rights of animals and says that animals,
like human beings, have souls and so
they mustn't be teased and killed.
She adds
that animals too have the right to
survive on the earth. Forest is their home but human beings trap them and
put them in zoos and circuses. She suggests that instead of trapping animals
for business, jobless people should be given physical art training so that they
would be involved in productive work.
The writer
advocates that animals should be given
the freedom to live the life of their own. She says that animals should not be killed for consumption
rather they should be protected.
According to the writer, there are many other hygienic foods that can replace animals' meat. So, animals must
not be tamed to eat. She is against animals' sacrifice in the name of God. She
further says that there is no reason at all to kill the fish from the ocean and
the animals from the forest. Animals can be used for the clinical trial however;
they should be killed for any reason.
To sum up,
the writer is against animals' exploitation and asks people to protect and
preserve animals.
Points to remember in The Rights of Animals
- In this text, the author urges human being not to kill animals.
- The writer says that human beings should treat animals with more respect.
- Animals have the same right to live on earth as humans.
- People hurt the animals too much for their selfishness.
- The author argues that animals should be allowed to live, just as humans do.
- The use of animals for experimental testing of drug treatment is somewhat correct. But it is not good to kill animals for any reason.
- The author argues that human beings must behave decently towards the animals.
- She asserts that human beings’ relation to animals is one of unremitting
(निरन्तर) exploitation and argues that we are
under moral obligation to respect their rights and spare them pain and terror.