... As Napoleon becomes the single tyrant controller of 'Animal Farm' he becomes corrupt with the nature of power goes back on his original policies.
During World War II Orwell felt that anti-Russian literature was to be rejected by most major publishing houses. This even included his usual ... Read review
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has been recognized as a classic of modern political satire. Fuelled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism,Animal Farmis a nearly perfect pie...
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has been recognized as a classic of modern political satire. Fuelled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing--both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson
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has been recognized as a classic of modern political satire. Fuelled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing--both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson
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Advantages: Fantastic read, Great Satire of Stalist USSR, Short & Sweet Disadvantages: Perhaps it gives a too critical view of Stalinist Russia
...emerge, however, between the different animal species. The society's ideologies are manipulated and twisted by individuals in positions of social and political power, and the utopian Marxist society is impossible due to the corrupting nature of the power necessary to create it.
The book, the most famous satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism was published in 1945 by George Orwell (Eric Blair). Orwell who was a democratic socialist ... ...critical of Joseph Stalin. His suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism was intensifying and experienced after his experiences with the NKVD during the Spanish Civil War.
He intended for it to be seen as a strong condemnation of what he saw as the Stalinist corruption of 'traditional' socialist ideals. In the novel, the teachings of Old Major (who represents Karl Marx) lead to the 'The Battle of the Cowshed', an allegory to the Russian ... more
The short novel is a metaphor for the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalin-ruled Communist Russia where the animals play the roles of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the human owners of the farm, who represents the Tsar Nicholas. They setup a commune in which, at first, all animals are equal; class and status difficulties and tensions soon emerge, however, between the different animal species. The society's ideologies are manipulated and twisted by individuals in positions of social and political power, and the utopian Marxist society is impossible due to the corrupting nature of the power necessary to create it.
The book, the most famous satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism was published in 1945 by George Orwell (Eric Blair). Orwell who was a democratic socialist and a member of the Independent Labour Party, was highly critical of Joseph Stalin. His suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism was intensifying and experienced after his experiences with the NKVD during the Spanish Civil War.
He intended for it to be seen as a strong condemnation of what he saw as the Stalinist corruption of 'traditional' socialist ideals. In the novel, the teachings of Old Major (who represents Karl Marx) lead to the 'The Battle of the Cowshed', an allegory to the Russian Civil War. The split between Napoleon and his rival Snowbell represent the Soviet spit between Stalin and Trotsky. As Napoleon becomes the single tyrant controller of 'Animal Farm' he becomes corrupt with the nature of power goes back on his original policies.
During World War II Orwell felt that anti-Russian literature was to be rejected by most major publishing houses. This even included his usual publisher Gollancz. One publisher rejected the book because of government advice. Orwell at first prepared a preface which complained about the suppression of the book by the British government, the British self-censorship as a whole for this period and how the Britain was containing criticism of the Stalin's USSR, a World War II ally.
Since its release on a public scale, it has had a dramatic change on British literature. It was voted by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best modern English novels and was voted number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels.It has also been adapted to make three feature films.
Davidhutt 02.04.2008
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Product details
Type
Fiction
Genre
Modern Fiction
Title
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (Penguin Modern Classics)
Author
George Orwell
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN
0141182709; 0141187387
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When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. Orwell's chilling 'fairy story' is a timeless and devastating satire of idealism betrayed by power and corruption.
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