Animal Farm

A look into a hopeless future..

This book made me so angry while reading it. Don't get me wrong has a great massage but made me feel negative. Random side note the cover should be of the last scene in the book made from the matrial where you can see two different pictures depending on how you look at it. It would be pretty awesome.

This is a short 55 page explaining a changing form of Government. While Russia went through Czarist to Proletarian to Communism/Socialism under Stalin, we experience similar transformations to many countries across the world.

This story is a piece of social satire, highlighting the underlying follies that exist in the nature of all creatures in general, and men in particular, with regards to the social and political system that they choose to live in. The story begins by showing the growing dissatisfaction among the animals of a farm who seek justice and freedom from oppression of the human beings. A revolt soon...more

This story is a piece of social satire, highlighting the underlying follies that exist in the nature of all creatures in general, and men in particular, with regards to the social and political system that they choose to live in. The story begins by showing the growing dissatisfaction among the animals of a farm who seek justice and freedom from oppression of the human beings. A revolt soon follows and the humans are thrown out and the animals decide to take control of their lives. They adopt seven commandments and decide to adhere to the principles of Animalism. But slowly as time progresses, they fall prey to a section of their own kind, the intelligent pigs, who assume leadership and begin exploiting their fellow beings for their own pleasure and comfort by clever brainwashing and muscle power. In the end, their state turns out to be no better than it was initially and the values for which they stood were lost into oblivion. Orwell brilliantly represents the animal farm as an image of our human society. We all want equality and fraternity and are willing to fight for it. But what comes after the victory? We gradually go back to the same state. There is always someone who is misusing power and misleading us- the countenance of the oppressor varies from a human face to that of a pig. People probably thirst for a leader to lead them and in the process they are willing to blindly follow anyone who satisfies this thirst. The seven commandments are ideal to begin with but with each passing day, they are modified to suit one’s needs. So “four legs good, two legs bad” eventually become “four legs good, two legs better”! People turn a blind eye even when their doom is staring in their face. The idiocy of the system, the exploitation and the misery of the creatures is probably best summed up in the defining statement: “All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than the others”.   hide

This is the first English novel I was forced to read at the age of sixteen.

George Orwell writes a political satire. He explains to animal characters how power corrupts. Revolution starts with good intentions but towards the end people become power hungry and manipulates to suit their needs. A good story telling of the animals as a image of the human society. A very short good read this.

Orwell set out to satirize the Russian Revolution, but I think he ment to show how, arguably, all revolutions start with great expectations and lose their defining purpose over time. Many communist revolutions begin with just ideals, but over time are usurped by power hungry individuals bent on holding office. Even many "democracies" today have lost their original ideals of equality and freedom....more

Orwell set out to satirize the Russian Revolution, but I think he ment to show how, arguably, all revolutions start with great expectations and lose their defining purpose over time. Many communist revolutions begin with just ideals, but over time are usurped by power hungry individuals bent on holding office. Even many "democracies" today have lost their original ideals of equality and freedom. Will we remember the Snowballs or become another one of the sheep?   hide

Good book.

Story abt communist Russia and the fate of people there...after the Russian Revolution