Reviews
I initially consider this the mini version of 1984. But I was wrong, this is a completely different book that tackles something that 1984 was lacking—a comprehensive journey on how power rise to the top.
“Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer—except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs”
Jaw dropped. This book is amazing. Best first classic literature that I have ever read and I love George Orwell’s writing. It was annoying to see Napoleon continuously manipulate the other animals. It is easy to apply the now “Manor Farm” to the real world and how we process and are ran. 1110000000/10
All my feelings while I read:😊🤯🥳😱🤬😵💫😲🥴🫨🔪🐖
This book was part of our English reading requirements when I was in high school. As much as I don't like to admit, I had fallen in love with the thrill of it all. Oh, how I hated the characters and wished for their good, amidst such exploitative conditions. A good allegory of society in the hands of those with power.
Felt left out since EVERYONE read this for English at high school so snagged it for 89 cents on amazon chur kindle!
A little close to home rn lol
Pertinent prose for challenging times!
Orwell's animal farm is a novel with the simplicity easy for a child to understand. It follows a farm of animals whose wise boar tells them it's time to uproar against the tyranny of man, sounds good right? Wrong. The farm goes through a new tyranny of leadership, and are lied to, tricked, slaughtered and gaslight. It's the literal definition of life as of recently, only dumbified so it's easy for us, the brainwashed public, to understand and see.
i know the book is a political allegory and i should talk about that but im sorry ive never been this FURIOUS with pigs before. i will definitely be eating bacon tn
This book introduced me to the wonders of English literature, and also one of my favourite authors of all time! (GEORGE OREWELL SUPREMACY)
Love love love love this book, justice for snowball is all I have to say.
Nunca tive uma experiência muito boa com livros políticos. Sempre achei que a maioria deles zombava do leitor por não entender todos os termos, ou cada mínimo aspecto do funcionamento da sociedade, alimentando ainda mais a ignorância política e a incredulidade para com os problemas sociais. este livro, no entanto, narra suas críticas sociais e morais políticas de forma muito didáticos, e isso não faz com que ela seja, nem por um segundo, menos eficiente. Muito pelo contrário. George Orwell mostra como não apenas tem opiniões fortíssimas sobre a hierarquia social, a desigualdade ou a manipulação política, mas também que possui um domínio exemplar da linguagem narrativa. Escrevendo seu livro quase que completamente baseado no subtexto. Diálogos escritos com uma maestria digna de aplausos, comunicando mensagens e sentimentos de forma muito sucinta e astuciosa. Sem perceber, já fomos seduzidos pelas palavras do escritor. [SPOILERS] E pensar que, este tempo todo, tudo que os porcos queriam eram se tornar aquilo que seus antigos opressores eram. No fim, eles se tornaram ainda piores. Vemos a gradativa transformação na ideologia dos animais, e como a ilusão dos terrores antigos cegam todos os animais para com os terrores atuais, que são ainda piores. Para justificar a fome, as horas injustas de trabalho e os medos da população, os porcos os lembravam de que antigamente era muito pior, e isso parecia ser uma resposta suficiente. A verdade é que a ganância humana nunca vai permitir que a sociedade viva de forma igualitária, por isso que o comunismo não passa de uma ilusão. O mundo perfeito onde ninguém quer ter mais benefícios do que ninguém, a lei e ordem são seguidas cegamente, a inveja não existe e todos se importam tanto com o próximo quanto se importam consigo mesmos não passa uma utopia, um sonho irreal.
I had read it like 4 times 2 in Arabic 2 in English it is good to explain the government system for me as 8 years old kid
As I read this, I couldn't help myself from thinking about my country's history. I didn't expect to cry while reading this, but, unfortunately, I did.
i would rate this like 3.5 stars. i found it to be funny and fast-paced but overall the book was okay
wowwwowow
I live on a farm, so I feel like this would be my worst nightmare if all the animals decided they didn't want humans around anymore.
But I feel like this story is a great example of how in any society, be it humans or animals, there is always an individual or a whole group of individuals who want to be on top. Sure there may be equality, in a sense, but certain groups are always going to be lower than others and that's just how the world works. Or certain groups feel like they should be the leaders and get power hungry in making the rules and comfortable in positions of power. So, yeah, be it humans or animals somebody is always going to knock somebody down to be at the top of the ladder.
read for english
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. A warning from history that we chose to ignore and look where we are now.
had to read it in high school.. but turned out to be a real page turner for me!!
3.5 stars but i won’t round it up :p the entire time i was either ijbol or dpmo . never in between
im gonna punch a wall
Highlights
"The only good human being is a dead one."
And the behaviour of the cat was somewhat peculiar. It was soon noticed that when there was work to be done the cat could never be found. She would vanish for hours on end, and then reappear at meal- times, or in the evening after work was over, as though nothing had happened. But she always made such excellent excuses, and purred so affectionately, that it was impossible not to believe in her good intentions.
I once knew a cat.
The stupidest questions of al were asked by Mollie, the white mare.
The very first question she asked Snowball was: "Will there still be sugar after the Rebellion?
"No said Snowball firmly. "We have no means of making sugar on this farm. Besides, you do not need sugar. You will have all the oats and hay you want."
"And shall I stil be allowed to wear ribbons in my mane?" asked Mollie.
"Comrade," said Snowball, "those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery.Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?
Mollie agreed, but she did not sound very convinced.
I disagree she’s got her priorities straight 😔✊🏻
And remember also that in fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices. No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade. All the habits of Man are evil. And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.
Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered. He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies. Alone among the animals on the farm he never laughed. If asked why, he would say that he saw nothing to laugh at.
Me core ✨
After much choking, during which his various chins turned purple, he managed to get it out: If you have your lower animals to contend with, he said, ‘we have our lower classes!'
It was always the pigs who put forward the resolutions. The other animals understood how to vote, but could never think of any resolutions of their own.
This is very interesting, seeing how the more ‘clever’ animals naturally took the more important roles and how the others, more ‘unintelligent’ ones just follow along because they don’t know any better.
They had never seen animals behave like this before, and this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating just as they chose, frightened them almost out of their wits.
Interesting analogy. This is how oppressors usually look at the oppressed.
Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings.
Sve su životinje jednake, ali neke su životinje jednakije od drugih.
Dvanaest glasova bijesno je vikalo , i svi su bili jednaki. Sada je bilo jasno što se promijenilo u izgledu svinja. Pogled životinja koje su vani stajale klizio je od svinje do čovjeka, od čovjeka do svinje, ali već je bilo nemoguće raspoznati tko je svinja, a tko čovjek.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others
The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.
There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-Man. Man is the only real enemy we have.
Hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.
"Fools! Fools!" shouted Benjamin, prancing round them and stamping the earth with his small hoofs. "Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van?"
When you don't look closely at what is right in front of you. This part always breaks my heart.