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A review by okiecozyreader
Animal Farm by George Orwell
dark
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
5.0
I have really enjoyed reading and studying this book with friends. I may have read it in college, but I don’t remember, for sure.
This is such an interesting look at how Orwell viewed Stalin and put his government into a simplistic story based on animals.
In Animal Farm, the animals take over from Mr Jones, believing he is making their life hard, and create 7 rules for animals. By chapter 3, the pigs already do not work and begin controlling the animals by use of dogs (fear) and propaganda from Squealer.
What is shocking and sad to me, is how the animals couldn’t really remember what life was like before - better or worse, so they easily believed what the pigs (Napoleon, Squealer) said.
I can see how it represents many totalitarianism regimes throughout history and gives a warning to us today, to not be easily appeased and to fight for democracy.
“Snowball… painted out MANOR FARM from the top bar of the gate and in its place painted ANIMAL FARM.” P24
“… the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments.” P24
“Sometimes the older ones among them racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether in the early days of the Rebellion, when Jones’s expulsion was still recent, things had been better or worse than now. They could not remember. There was nothing with which they could compare their present lives: they had nothing to go upon except Squealer’s list of figures, which invariably demonstrated that everything was getting better and better.” P130
This is such an interesting look at how Orwell viewed Stalin and put his government into a simplistic story based on animals.
In Animal Farm, the animals take over from Mr Jones, believing he is making their life hard, and create 7 rules for animals. By chapter 3, the pigs already do not work and begin controlling the animals by use of dogs (fear) and propaganda from Squealer.
What is shocking and sad to me, is how the animals couldn’t really remember what life was like before - better or worse, so they easily believed what the pigs (Napoleon, Squealer) said.
I can see how it represents many totalitarianism regimes throughout history and gives a warning to us today, to not be easily appeased and to fight for democracy.
“Snowball… painted out MANOR FARM from the top bar of the gate and in its place painted ANIMAL FARM.” P24
“… the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments.” P24
“Sometimes the older ones among them racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether in the early days of the Rebellion, when Jones’s expulsion was still recent, things had been better or worse than now. They could not remember. There was nothing with which they could compare their present lives: they had nothing to go upon except Squealer’s list of figures, which invariably demonstrated that everything was getting better and better.” P130