Hello, can someone me? i have to do an assignment, and one of the questions ends in a phrase that i don't understand.
the words are "crossing the common." if anyone can . i've been stuck ever since i got to it, and the online results and my family members aren't much.

c. to depict the cunningness of the federal soldiers

normally working animals are domesticated and ruled by a master, a domesticator (tamer), to perform basic and important functions on a farm, for example. the value used in this context is animal labor in exchange for food. it is not so much a contrast to the story told by napoleon and the pigs, since the animals of that particular farm also performed functions on the farm through domestication. the only thing is that in this case, who rules them is a pig, also an animal, but very respected, to whom the other animals lent him submission. that's about a strong relationship of dependency between animal and owner.