Animal Farm Book Review

Title of Book

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Animal Farm

Author of Book

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George Orwell

Genre

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Political Satire

Number of Pages

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112


    The story is set on an animal farm owned by a drunken man, Mr. Jones. In that farm, several animals were planning to overthrow the rule of humans and take control of the farm, inspired by a speech given by a visionary, Old Major, the pig. After successfully taking over the farm, the animals decided to apply an ‘Animalism’ government, with principles that are described as the Seven Commandments that rule over the animals. 

    Time passes and the pigs that control the central government, Napoleon and Snowball, of the farm further increase their reign over the other animals and grant themselves even more authority and privileges. An internal feud broke out that caused one of the commanding pigs, Snowball, to be cast away. This let Napoleon exact absolute rule over the farm without clashing interests with anyone in power. 

    Under Napoleon’s rule, the farm animals are overworked, sometimes even resulting in death. Even so, he tries to deceive both the animals and the humans that the farm was prospering. More suspiciously, Napoleon has a trading relationship with the humans, something that goes against what their original policies were supposed to be. 

    After even more time goes by, the farm continues to grow, but the working-class animals aren’t prospering very much. The pigs that control the central government continue to keep giving themselves more privileges. As the pigs got closer to humans, the other animals saw that the pigs resembled humans more than animals.

    The main characters of this story are Napoleon who is described as a stubborn and greedy pig, Snowball, a smart pig who is always clashing with Napoleon, Squealer, the third pig and Napoleon's second in command, Old Major, a refined boar that all the other animal's looked up to, and finally, Boxer who is a loyal yet unintelligent cart-horse.

    My favorite part would be when Old Major gave his speech to the farm animals during the first part of the story. Old Major gave his views on the socialist utopia that the animals should have yet hindered by the rule of humans. It serves as an interesting narrative that affects the rest of the story.

    This book explored themes of totalitarian government and the dangers of it, which isn't something very common to see. Not only that, he depicted the characters as simple farm animals with very human mindsets. Clearly an out-of-the-box interpretation yet intriguing nonetheless, I highly recommend this book to everyone who reads this.

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