Resumo de Animal Farm - Orwell, George

One dark unsettled night, on a farm in England, Old Major, a large white boar dreams of a place where animals live well and prosper, a place where the harsh treatment of farm animals no longer occurs. Major decides that all the animals should have a meeting to discuss his revolutionary dream. The meeting is to be held in the barn at night after Jones has gone to sleep. After much excited discussion, the animals of Manor Farm after suffering many years of oppression, at the hand farmer Jones, decide that enough is enough. Jones is going down. There is going to be a revolution.
A few days later, the revolution begins. The animals wage war on the farmer, he is run off the farm. Further meetings are held and many proposals are passed. It is a unanimous decision that the guiding principles of Animalism would take precedence at Manor farm. A leader is self-appointed, a pig by the name of Napoleon. A set of Seven Commandments are drawn up and painted on the side of the barn.
The Seven Commandments
1. whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy
2. Whatever goes upon fourlegs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.
The old name of Manor Farm would be changed to reflect the new ownership. A new farm would emerge, not run by humans, but by animals. The farm would henceforth be known as Animal Farm. Long live Animal Farm!
As in George Orwell?s bleak Nineteen Eighty-Four, reviewed previously by this author, here. Freedom becomes a nebulous entity indeed. The freedom won by the inhabitants of Animal farm is initially distributed equally amongst the animals, but this is short-lived. It starts to become obvious that not all animals are equal-some are considered more equal than others. The well to do intelligent pigs get the main spoils of the luxurious surroundings and comfort of the recently-evicted Jones? house. The rest of the animals are relegated to the cold barn and windy stables. Although no one quite knows who changes the text, the writing of the Seven Commandments is changed ever so imperceptibly, in favour of the porcine members of the farm.
After some bad years, failed crops and an unsuccessful attempt at building a windmill, the pigs, who are seen as the main organisers, report that all is not well, that the farm would have to deal with some humans in order to survive. Very soon the pigs are dealing with humans. A blatant contravention of one of the basic rules of Animalism. Eventually, this too is explained away by the crafty pig, Napolean.
Orwell?s exposure of authoritarian hypocrisy and ability to describe the idiosynchrasies of certain power-hungry characters make this a great read.
After reading Animal farm, one never looks at common farm livestock the same way again.

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