Total Page : 106
Publisher : Monarch Press
Publication Date : 1988 09
>> Required Reading
Animal Farm is a great read and should be require for all children in secondary school When paired with the proper historical lessons the Russian revolution purges and to some extent World War II it is very entertaining and could serve as a powerful reinforcement
>> It s All About Boiling a Frog
Orwell shows the incrimental rise of tyrrany among barnyard animals That s really what is at the heart of this book the slow methodical creep of ever more constrictive exploitive and oppressive laws which transform a free society to a totalitarian dictatorship Each step is slowly introduced and introduced to the public in a calm and well reasoned manner If done skillfully no individual step will incite the public to stand up and oppose the overarching plan to enslave them Joesph Stalin came to power around 1922 26 depending on the criterion applied but it took him another 10 years to really cement together his ironclad dictatorship So it is with Napolean the Pig who becomes the barnyard leader with the slogan All animals are created equal and only later quietly adds but some animals are more equal than others The book unfolds in baby steps slowly constructing a regime no better indeed far worse than the one it replaced Once he removes the Farmer Napolean purges potential rivals e g the popular and beloved horse trains a private army of attack dogs answerable only to him and starts to set himself apart in a seperate and superior class from the other animals by walking upright like the Farmer did
>> Average This book was OK but I wouldn t read it twice
This book was quite different from George Orwell s 1984 Max Notes the only other of Orwell s works that I have read The allusions to communism are obvious and character development was sacrificed in favour of narrative As a study of historical narrative this book is important As an enjoyable book to read Animal Farm A Fairy Story falls short of the mark
