Animal Farm
(George Orwell)
What a bunch of pigs! From the running out of the old farmer to the rise of the pigs as the new masters, ?Animal Farm? follows one farm?s abortive revolution and the disasters that follow.?Animal Farm? is not actually about a farm at all. It is an allegory for the revolution in Russia that brought the communists to power. It is so detailed that individual animals can sometimes be matched to their human counterparts. Snowball, for example, a pig who falls from favor, flees the farm and gets butchered on another farm, is none other than Leon Trotsky who fell from favor, fled Russia and was assassinated in Mexico City.The plot becomes increasingly difficult for the Animals of Animal farm. At first they celebrate and write their new laws on the wall of the barn. Soon realities set in. Eggs must be sold, and milk as well. Soon the toils of the farm have returned. The horse, representing the workers, helps build a windmill, representing industry and then is sold to a glue factory. Friends of Snowball are called forward and murdered by dogs. All the time the pigs are becoming more and more like the farmer; they dine at a table, they get drunk. By the end, the farm?s exhausted animals peer into the windows of the farm house and see human and pig sitting side by side, only they can?t tell the two apart. Above all else, ?Animal Farm? is a cautionary tale. If the Pigs were run out, who would rise next? Would they be worse? It is also an interesting political polemic. The she recite mantra, whatever the mantra is. The horse works because he believes in work. Religion is even there in the form of a bird who talks about ?Sugar Candy Mountain.?
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