This review appears in the Challenge I'm in ... English 2011.
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George Orwell - Animal Farm
Longman Publishing
97 pages
blurb
Benjamin felt a nose nuzzliing at his shoulder. He looked round. It was Clover. Her old eyes looked dimmer than ever.
Without saying anything, she tugged gently at his mane and led him round to the end of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written. For a minute or two they stood gazing at the tarred wall with its white lettering.
"My sight is failing", she said finally. "Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there. But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?"
For once Benjamin consentend to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ARE MORE
EQUAL THAN OTHERS
My opinion
"Animal Farm" (German: "Animal Farm") is next to "Nineteen-eighty-four" the best-known work that the relatively short period of creativity of George Orwell's plays. The book is published 1945th
At first glance it is an interesting and exciting story for children: the animals suffer in the men's farm under the control of the farmer Jones, who treated them very badly and addicted to alcohol. At the beginning of the book of old breeding boar Old Major held an address to all animals, in which he tells them about a dream he had had just been a dream of a Revolution that ended the rule of Jones and generally the people in England and would free the animals. The speech makes a great impression on the animals, especially pigs. Shortly after Old Major dies and the life on the farm continues its course. As a result, many factors come together to bring about the revolution predicted by Old Major spontaneously and unexpectedly, with Jones and Mrs. Jones and his men fled from the farm. In the course of history, the animals are the men on the farm that is now called "Animal Farm", initially under the premise that all animals are equal. The pigs take the lead and gradually undermine the principle of equality.
On closer examination of the events can be found many signs here that the events and consequences of the Russian October Revolution of 1917, leading to the emergence of the Soviet Union, to be told allegorically (more in the Wikipedia . History is consistently exciting, each scene brings any change or surprise and you realize pretty quickly that with the equality of the animals is not as far away as originally intended - the principles of "animalism" that are declared at the beginning, will be gradually eroded and the end rule a few animals with authority over all others.
Depending on how you look at the history, it understandable for children, but also for adults who are aware of the historical background, it is an interesting read and is certainly one of the great works of the 20th Century.
Review: "Animal Farm" is a classic and every reader to put your heart, especially since the reading is to create quickly. Smooth 5 / 5
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